On Ray Suarez' "Talk Of The Nation" program, today's theme was Getting a Job in the Current Market. Featured were a Georgetown U Professor of Management and a guy I grew up with, one of the scoutmaster's boys <1>. He has become a Director of Recruiting for Anderson Consulting. The Professor was very sharp, and had a good idea for interviewing <2>; as for my former scouting companion, it was alternately laughable and frightening to hear the smooth corporate crap this voice was dishing out, this same voice I recognized as belonging to the weird, chubby kid with the really bad zit problem.

My parents have driven out to Kansas once again for one of their High School reunions, up in that state's northwest corner. My Dad had a situation there a few years back when he almost got his Ford van stuck in the mud. They drive around looking at old landmarks, and that time they weren't that long out of the rainy season. I pictured an already muddy lane bisecting plowed fields stretching away to the horizon. Him and my Mom (the non-driver) are motoring along when the wheels start to slip, as the road's edges are blurring into the surrounding fields... a potentially hellish nightmare. As always when they're traveling, I'll feel better when they return home tomorrow.

Today's Internet find: a Heino page!
- Not to be confused with heinovision -