Doohickie

The Rat is en fuego.

They don't call him @Thorny for nuthin

That's the what he was billed as when we drafted him.

I'm not too worried about how it will work out. It's just one of those "when worlds collide" situations, like when I discover two friends I know from different situations actually know each other. In the "first few years" of his career, I'll be retiring anyway.

So my son recently completed a masters degree in a field that the company I work for employs. I work for a Very Big Corporation. In his job hunt he came across an opening at my company and asked me about it. It turns out it's in my department. I purposely didn't want to steer him toward my company; if he got here I wanted it to be his decision. But now that he's interested I'll do what I can to get him in. I'm acquainted with the hiring manager so I forwarded his resume to her. So many applications come in and so many get screened out that it helps to focus the recruiter/hiring manager on a particular candidate. I don't know if they'll pick him or not, but if they do hire him he'll be sitting about a 30 second walk from my desk. Seems weird.

Meanwhile, in my manager's yard, 100 mph winds: 1 200-year-old pecan tree: 0

But the Panthers are just the kind of team that can exploit a team that presses too hard.

All. Of. It. All the money.

What a bizarre world it is that we're rooting for The Rat.

Lots of rain last night. There was a tornado less than ten miles from here; we supposedly saw 60-80 mph winds per weather reports. Underpasses are flooding. At least we didn't get the predicted baseball sized hail.

Sure it's ice. It's just a phase it's going through. 😉