Diary

Friday Apr 8. Saw churches + bars. Then caverns at Carlsbad Saturday. Came back to El Paso. Easter Service at 11:00 Sunday. Then dinner at H. Inn and bullfight in Juarez. Difficulty getting back. Trying to take the bars & getting lost in Juarez. The Tuesday Apr 5 of that week, the thought popped into my mind of the possibility of working for Ryan McFarland. I asked myself why I hadn't thought that earlier. I guess three reasons

1) I wanted to consider the Xerox sort of work. See letter to Jack Lawrence & also consider all possible avenues as I had that first weekend.

2) It was important for me to sign Bill's nondisclosure agreement. If I had gotten a job when I was in L.A. & come back & didn't sign the nondisc

agreement, I would have very ungraceful departure.

3) My working for RM may have effected who gets the TI deal. It would have been bad for them to get it & maybe even have me work on it.

So I decided to wait until the bids were finalized until I called. During the 4th week nothing much happened here. My extra time was spent on doing my tax reports as Apr 15 was Friday.

Chip was gone that weekend so I was just curious to see Santa Fe & what it has to offer. Not much. I met a guy who is working on The Mikado & spent the night there, but came back next day and essentially spent the afternoon hoping & praying, did general personal business & washed & watched TV in the evening.

Then Sunday Apr 17 I went to Church and saw John Hamlin again.

Afterwards we went out to brunch, then home for s ex and then he showed me his Juke Box's at his house and then we went on a ride up to Santa Fe on his motor cycle on N14 and back on I25. Wild ride.

Then I saw 60 minutes and then read a book for 3 hours, called the R document. Then All that glitters came on. It was important for me that that day be one of rest.

Looking back on it, it is here that I declare this Sun April 17th to be the end of the 1/4 for two reasons 1) taxes done 2) all major uSoft work done 3) interesting things start to happen 4) exactly one year since I started working for MicroSoft.

The next day Al Riconi called but Bill was not in so no one got the call. I told Elaine if he calls & Bill's not in let me have it. Tuesday he called & I got it. He said had gotten the bids, they were acceptable, no questions & he had recommeded one but could not tell us who.

So Tuesday afternoon April 17 I called RM. I got McFarland and he said to just send a resume. But then he called back about 10 minutes later and said he'd talked to Ryan and they'd like me to come out that weekend. That excited my whole afternoon. Thursday was my birthday and Chip bought me a cake with Pink Elephants on it. I got good presents from Mom & Dad (bear), Meg (sun visor), and Aunt Clara gave me a card with the rolling paper in it.

Then Friday Apr 22 night I went to L.A. Felt good. McFarland perked me up. Took me to

H. Inn. Rent-a-car was closed so could just stay there. But I guess that was good so I could get a full nights rest. Then I saw R & M next morning, then lunch, then went to see Beach Towns, then to Health Spa & back to H. Inn. Called R & told him will meet at 10:00 AM. Then relaxed dressed showered, dinner & off to 8709 baths. Then back to H. Inn & to sleep.

Sunday saw R & went over plans & EDITX and then went to Zuma Beach nude beach. Wasn't so great. Then to airport & back to ABQ & Chip.

Felt great last Monday (Apr 25) morning. Went to work & discussed matter with myself. Then w/ Bill. He asked as a favor that I stay till July 1.