My office finally broke down and bought us new equipment. I now am the proud owner of a P4, 80Gig, 800Mhz computer. Complete with all the bells and whisels like Windows XP, Microsoft Professional 2003 with Word, Excel, and Outlook, DVD, CD-RW, floppy, video, speakers, and 17" monitor. I am currently grooving out to some desktop Evanescense which totally beats the headphone cd/radio combo I am use to where I can't hear anyone let alone the phones. Now I can listen AND hear what is going on around me too. Majorly cool. The big wigs said the reason for the new equipment was because they had some money they had to get rid of before the company merged with our national corporation. Let me tell you, this whole merger thing is a mess. But it has yeilded nothing but goodness for me. As in new office equipment that should be updated every 4-5 years instead of every 7 years. I also heard that there is a significant pay raise in my future. Rumor has it that my office's pay scale will have to be brung up to the national corps average. Which means a few thousand more a year in my pocket. Doesn't that just shoulds heavenly? Plus, I got a sneak peek at the merger annual agenda (because it is gonna take a least a year to get everything running smoothly) and I noticed that there is going to be some kinda of convention getaway deal at the end of 2004. Mirage said it has been at least 10 years since she has attended one so that is big news. Those are the only effects I will see from the merger. However, more may pop up but that will be ok. The new executive director seems nice and plans on meeting individually with each employee in Alabama before June. I don't know how I feel about that but lets hope she doesn't ask me to tell her the truth about Chase or Martin. Because I may just spill the beans about how lazy Martin is and how Chase does all the case work here. But then she may already realize this by the time she makes it this way. I hope not too much changes. I like my job. Really I do. Only because I have so much free time I can pretty much do what I want when clients aren't around. Somedays I feel like I just have to show up to get paid. In a way, I would like to do more actual work but another side is enjoying the blessing of not beating my brains out everyday over stressful things. Sorry to bore you with all the details of this merger but I realized I haven't even said a peep about it. So... PEEP!

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