A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Diet, careers and more

From:          LMixson
To:            Elizabeth
Sent:          Tuesday, January 26, 1999 10:18 AM
Subject:       Diet, careers and more
 
Diet, yuk!  I understand the need though.  I have tried a couple of diets before, mainly because Julie was doing it.  I really hate to diet, or at least a "structured" diet.  I do have to watch my weight constantly now or else I gain easily.  I usually weigh myself at the club when I play racquetball three times a week so it gets monitored petty close.  If I play three times a week and eat my usual diet I will stay constant.  If I don't play as much or eat out more I'll gain a few pounds (like now!).  What I usually do is cut back on eating out or just get a salad (Julie and eat out once or twice a week).  I also will just eat something light for dinner and perhaps just one of those dry soups for lunch and after a week will be back to my regular weight.  Yes, getting older is no fun.
 
It does sound like you might have been a little abrupt with the woman who said you were fired, particularly the way you just walked away.  It would seem you could have handled it more "gently" but you did make your point and set her straight that you were not fired.  Because you seem bothered by should tell you something.
 
I like the virus types of books too. I finished the one I was reading this past weekend and it was quick easy reading with a lot of action.  In the end though it was a little shallow and a bit un-realistic in the end.  There is a true case virus book about an Ebola type virus that swept through all the monkeys in a research center here in Reston.  It turned out the virus did not infect humans but was fatal to the monkeys.  They tore down the building a couple of years ago because no one would lease it. (see Outbreak, 1989)
 
If you are running Netscape you can save your bookmark file which can be found in the Netscape directory called bookmark.htm.  Copy this file to a floppy disk and you can restore it in the future.  If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer you have to save the directory "Favorites" usually in the Windows directory.
 
I'm reasonably content but I often feel like a Dilbert, just a cog in a wheel in the corporate environment.  I generally like what I do, working with computers building systems.  But I still work for someone else. Getting another job is easy enough to do, I've never been at a single job for more than 5 years. I have somewhat of an entrepreneur sprit, I did work as an independent contractor 13 years while in Melbourne but, now, like you, I do like to have some finical stability and that is somewhat risky being an independent.  I would like to have my own business but not contracting.  Contracting puts you at the whims of who you contract for.  I would really like to have some sort of business which I had some product. A web based business really interest me recently.  The problem is I have never really found the right thing.  Someday perhaps.
 
Enough for now,  Larry

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