What rest? I thought I had done a great job of telling the whole atory in one sentence. The recruiter called Monday, regarding a company that had liked my resume before. The timing wasn't right then, because I still had a month on my six month contract at Webb. But this week, they were looking again, and eager for some .NET folks. They set up a phone interview. When the interviewer asked what I was looking for in a new job, I said I wanted to get back to .NET. I explained that my current company has no incentive to move to .NET: their existing architecture is still more than good enough for their customer needs, and upgrading would only destabilize that.

Then a little later on, he asked what material handling firm on the east side I was working at. I said "Jervis B. Webb," and he said "I thought so." He used to work there (and at Ann Arbor Computer, which was later bought by Webb) as supervisor of software.

Then today, when I told that story to a coworker, he said, "Oh, yeah... He pretty much designed the whole baggage software here." In other words, he was the guy behind the architecture that I said was too good to upgrade.

Ninety minutes after he talked to me, he called the recruiter and asked how soon I could start. Offer letter arrived today. The place is 30 miles down the highway from the Hopkins exit, 32.4 miles from my door. Leave a light on, Sandy, 'cuz I'm headin' home!