Re: Reply from Gail and Don

["robert" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:20:24 -0700
 >
 > Dear Noelle and Robert,
 >     No, we don't know anything definitely. I did talk to Kim a couple of 
 > weeks ago, and the 50/50 chance of going up there for Thanksgiving looks 
 > more like 75/25% chance, thus, more likely, but they don't know yet whether 
 > it is 100% definite. If we don't go up there, we will have dinner with 
 > Cynthia and Art in SB along with possibly a friend of ours, Marcy Lindberry, 
 > with whom Art used to work. If we go to Healdsburg probably driving up 
 > Thurs. AM, we'll see if we have time to stop by and see you two in where-I-live 
 > either on the way up or on the way back on that Sun. Either way I would say 
 > we won't be eating Thanksgiving Thurs. eve, dinner with you, so you should 
 > make your plans to eat your Holiday dinner with someone else.

OK, that's really what I wanted to know.  Noelle and I will discuss plans.

 >     Also I tried to get Don to communicate with Noelle that a French lady I 
 > think from the area in Northern CA that Don grew up in called recently 
 > wanting someone's contact information in France that Noelle knows about. I 
 > spoke to this woman briefly not knowing her name as Don wasn't here, but I 
 > told her to call Don back that afternoon, but she never did. I wasn't able 
 > to speak to her at length as I was expecting a call from a person who was 
 > going to telephone interview me for a job right at that same moment by 
 > appointment. Maybe Noelle knows more about what that is all about. When I 
 > told Don later, he said it was some woman whose mind is not all there and 
 > just ignored it which I didn't think was very nice.
 >
 >     Yes, this past week or so I have been very busy job interviewing for a 
 > Company (not through a personnel agent) located near our home whose job 
 > sounded ideal for me as a Controller. I really wanted that job and told them 
 > so. I passed the initial phone interview with the HR person, and then later 
 > the phone interview with the CFO, and then later the in person interview 
 > with the CFO, and I thought the offer would be in the bag. Much to my 
 > tremendous disappointment, the day after the last interview they emailed me 
 > saying that some other candidate suddenly came along, and the Co. hired them 
 > instead - after all that work I put into that. I have also been attending 
 > more free job hunting workshops through EDD and Adult Education which have 
 > been helpful as well as becoming Precinct Co-Captain regarding helping the 
 > Democrats to get elected. Even Don is helping me with some of that. There is 
 > a possibility I might have a one month temporary job starting this Mon. or 
 > soon thereafter through a personnel agent, so we'll see what happens.

With the economy the way it is, I'm very doubtful that you'll be able to
get a job now.  Elie, Heather's husband, is having a hard time finding a
job.  And HP is laying people off.  It will only get worse.

Just in time -- Barak Obama will definitely win now.

 > Love,
 > Gail and Don