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I was so into this work that I sacrificed my own dignity and had very quick lunches by myself and had dinner almost every night at Wendys. That is not good for me since I feel like I should develop more personality character and a dear set of friends.

Also during this early period of the quarter there were also some design meetings primarily with Ross Hunter Tony and Jeff and occasionally with Bill Gates and Jody Snodgras. I did not contribute much to these meetings because I really didnt care much about the design of the product. Bill noticed this when we all met in late October and said via email October 31 that he was surprised that I wasnt more vocal in the meeting and said it is critical that I write and design and communicate at high bandwidth and show technical leadership.

In the same memo of October 31 Bill said he decided that leaving my salary alone and not having a bonus is fair. After some thought I agreed about the bonus and wrote up a 3 page memo to myself why basically because I hadnt worked full-time all the time. But I felt that my salary and/or options should increase because I now have skills I didnt have two years ago:
I have experience designing and researching a product
I have worked on all aspects independently
Ive created a full-featured SS & DB app in a window environment
I know the Mac and Windows environments
I have CDP Certificate
Also I should get at least and 8% raise due to increase in the CPI.

Also Bills memo didnt mention more stock options even though my current grant ran out November 16 the fourth anniversary of my coming to Microsoft. But I didnt want to say anything until I got my first 26250 shares into a vault which I did on November 12. Therefore on November 14 I emailed a memo to Bill asking what Microsoft was willing to grant me in the future. And on Monday November 18 sent a request to exercise the final 3750 shares.

The first half of this quarter had some fun moments. I already talked about SF on Oct 11-14. The next Sunday I went shopping for a new gym because I was fed up with the Body Nautilus after they tried to charge me a $10 late fee. I found the PumpHouse gym in Bellevue. The next weekend I was in LA for Halloween as Peg going to Chris Haywards party and the Probe. (Sheehean and Dean...) Neighbours threw a fun party on Halloween night. I