Month of September, 2001

WTC

I was up all night playing Anarchy Online last night and was still playing this morning at 7:00am PST when the canadian called me on my cell. At first I was like wtf is he doing calling me at this time of the morning? When I answered the phone the first thing out of his mouth was "turn on CNN".

So I did. And was amazed/shocked by what I was seeing. It was unbelievable. After a few minutes I was called him back to find out what was going on down south and he mentioned that him and mej were glued to the TV. I jumped on the bike and hit 101 at about 120mph. I do believe that that's the fastest I've ever made it from SF to San Jose.

I stayed down there all day watching CNN and a few other people came by throughout the day. All I can say is that I'm saddened and shocked by the events that transpired today. I wonder how this is going to play out as someone's going to pay for this.

VA Engineering has left the Building

So today was the last day of Hardware/Software Engineering at VA Linux Systems. A decision was made awhile back to exit the hardware business altogether so we all became dead weight to the company. This was not new news for those of us in engineering but it's still a difficult pill to swallow.

This is the first time I've ever had to experience a layoff so it was especially difficult for me. On the upside was that the severance package that was offered was very very generous and that's going to help in the transition.

Working at VA was a once in a lifetime experience. I don't think that I'll ever get the opportunity to work with a team of such dedicated, talented and brilliant engineers ever again and that does in fact weigh heavily upon me.

Anyways I'm rambling now. Time to take a break from work and other things and see what lies over the horizon.

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