2011 Christmas Letter January - Hey, Jay...

2011 turned out to be a good year for the Eberly household despite a rocky start. The year stated with the usual job turmoil that I had come to expect after 2010, my 12 month contract with J&J ended after 3 months but I had another gig lined up with GE Medical. We agreed that I would start on January 10^th. On Jan. 4^th I got a message asking me where I was, followed by a message to telling me that the job had been canceled. Nice.

You might be thinking that having a job end so suddenly is unusual, and if this were the 2006 Christmas letter you'd probably be right. But, as we all adjust to the "New Normal" this has become more and more common. Julie started a contract position in January for a company she had worked for in the past and they let her go after 3 days. I don't know about you, but that "Hopey Changey" thingy hasn't worked out too well for us.

I did what I usually do when nothing is happening, I went to work with Jay Duggan on some poor soul’s house. It struck me that Jay and I have learned how to do so many things over the years; electrical, plumbing, carpentry, order lunch in Spanish, etc. yet all of this knowledge doesn’t seem to be worth too much.

Here was another clue that I might not be cut out for construction work. Which of these things is not like the others?

Open Table Reservations - 6

Dinners at Ruth's Chris - 2