Life Continued

Huh. Well, it looks like I kinda neglected this for a little while. That's understandable. My life's been somewhat hectic in the last month. Among other things, I started searching for back-up jobs just in case things at NE don't work out. Ironically enough, on the day of my first in-person interview (for which I spent the day in Mountain View, CA) NE's CEO held a company meeting to announce that he and an investor reached a deal in which NE would receive $4 million in capital, which should fund us for approximately a year, at which point our scanner should be out to market and, in theory, we no longer have to depend on investment capital. If nothing else, we'll at least have money to pay employee salaries for a year, which is great news for the short term. Now, the deal isn't absolutely finished - it still has to be approved by our board of directors - but everybody involved stands to gain from this deal being completed and, unlike our Saudi Prince investor, this investor actually has the cash to give us (and doesn't have a money-grubbing entourage standing between him and us). So, it appears as though our furlough may soon be over. Of course, I'm going to continue interviewing with other companies as if no deal had ever been announced, since if I stop now and the deal falls through then I'm no better off than if I had never started interviewing. Still, I'm optimistic.

What I'm most looking forward to as part of having a steady paycheck again is being able to plan into the future for purchasing things that I want. Thankfully I've been largely unfettered as far as collecting records for spinning. I've also been able to make trips to Montana and Buenos Aires. Still, there are so many things that I want to get at some point in the future - a new phone, new clothes, upgraded DJing equipment, whatever - that are going to require multiple months of saving up before I'll be able to purchase them, and not receiving regularly scheduled paychecks makes that incredibly difficult. Well, that and having to keep a large chunk of savings put away to weather the periods where no pay comes in (such as the last month and a half). Ah, money, how I love thee.

Ok, short post this time. I'll make sure to do a better job of keeping this up.