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very drowsy so I have a feeling that it may have made me less sharp than I normally am at work. But it helped me through the autumn. I stopped taking it a week ago because January has always been a positive month for me and I want to approach the new year as the real me.

Since the last progress report October 4 I have not written any progress reports because I havent felt like it. First it feels off not to be working for Bill even if he hasnt been involved with my work for quite some time. And its odd to have a project leader like Tony who technically has been my boss and who wears blue jeans to work. Hes smart but no style and he giggles too much. I cant bring myself to give him a progress report. Consequentially for my own memoirs I will describe this quarters work here.

One of the first things I did this quarter was request to exercise my stock options. On October 9 I formally asked to exercise all the options that had vested so far specifically 26250 shares. I did this because I was afraid that if I wanted to leave Bill would unilaterally refuse to fulfill the grant and it would cause me hassle grief and frustration. I didnt want that uncertainty. And at the September company meeting Bill said the fair market value was $5.50 per share so I was sure it was a good investment that I didnt want to risk losing the right to since it would only cost me $0.475/share. I have subsequently fully paid for those shares as well as the last 3750 shares and placed both certificates into a safe deposit box.

As my first task instead of creating a small Windows application as an exercise Tony and I felt it would be good to move the current character based Multiplan onto my AT. That turned out to be a very good exercise in learning to use Microsoft (Cmerge) C. After setting up Windows development files and an environment for working on C code I compiled as many of the current Multiplan (2.00) modules as were applicable to the future Windows Works and got them to link albeit with quite a few undefined externals.

Next I moved onto the more rewarding task of updating the Windows Multiplan (Wimp) that Karl Stork had working last spring. There have been several changes to Windows since then so it was a challenge to modify the code appropriately to make it work again. Learning to do this and debugging the code were at least as good an exercise as creating a small application of my own would have been. Parts of the sources were in various directories on the Windows Development network but I eventually got a full set of sources and a full set of laser listings. After this work Plan could come up and it was possible to move the curser around and see it change as it passed from area to area on the screen. You could even select a cell and enter a number and