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Hi-

Just finished gathering up documentation, CD's, firewire drives, MacBook Pro- grab it! ... Mac asked for all this- including Blackberry and images I'd used (would need new ones for new Macs- including the laptop) and all keys I had! He's either sure I'm not coming back or afraid I'll drop dead. (After he hires Ryan.)

The images are on the laptop (password: admin, as are they all) and firewire drives. You boot from the drive and use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone new and/or restore hard drive images (documentation at their website). The process is much, much faster than you'd think.

Anne is bringing the stuff to the high school- I'm not going near the place. I'd rather go to Iraq.

I've been sleeping a lot, which I definitely needed, but was surprised how hard I'd crashed from all the cumulative stuff I've been going through. The shock wears off and you discover you feel sicker than you'd realized while you were a moving target.

I'm not surprised the interview process was a farce- so is pretty much any meeting there... Did Lynn lick Ryan too? Did she scare Chris off? "Takes a-lickin'- keeps on a-whippin.."

From the sound of it, if I had to choose- your picks seem like the right ones. I don't want to read too much into what it says about Mac's seeking out and then hiring a guy who's not sure he could do full-time and who I'd described to him as a potentially nightmarish situation, based on previous experience. That'll sure get me wanna come back, right!

Then again, I've seen Ryan be a lap dog to Mac, even willing to lick Citrix- and his experience fits with the Mac-Lynn Orwellian Dream for the district. Control, control, control. Cookie-cutter Fort Knoxes. I hope he isn't picked. Or he is and then crashes and burns- immediately. It's a full-time job. He'll scare the kids, too, which is truly sad..

Nancy Smith e-mailed me about getting an Airport at ELS cafeteria- I gave her specs but mentioned I was on medical leave, to contact help desk. She freaked out and apologized profusely about bothering me- I assured her it was no problem, I was enjoying resting but missed answering questions and helping out, etc. It's too bad I couldn't just go to work, pick a school, walk the halls- get stopped and help people without ever having to "check in" with Lynn or go to a meeting. That would be an entirely different job!

It was both the nurse and doctor who nixed any idea of my doing two weeks and then taking a break. They wouldn't "release" me to work that day! Very wise decision.

I had a dream I was trying to fix my late mother's car- I just stuck in a tape and it self-repaired. My mother then happily drove off in it, singing, leaving me to think- "I should've driven that car more often.."

I have absolutely no idea what that dream meant but it sounds good to me!...

Keep me posted- when you do hopefully have "The Discussion," remember- you'll most likely be the only one in the room making sense!

Hi Mitch,

I hope you are feeling better.

Note to self: next time there is an opportunity to be
on an interview committee involving Lynn, remind
yourself that it will be an enormous waste of time.  I
rarely get to use the term farce in a sentence, so I
am going to do it now; that was a farce.

We have not had the Discussion (you know with Lynn we
always have to have a discussion), but I would bet my
last dollar that the job will be offered to Ryan Fass.
  Mac called him to tell him about the job and wanted
him to interview; you and I both know it's a done
deal.  I would laugh if Ryan declined.

We did interview two bright, fresh-out-of-college kids
that I thought would have been terrific. One kid has a
Mac at home and worked in the college Mac lab.  Stay
tuned.

I miss you,

Melinda