[Magdalen] Updates, Changes, and Re-Treads

[cady soukup]

Dear ones,

Sort of a status report -

On April 1 the company division I work for, HPE Enterprise Services,
splits and merges with a division of CSC to form a new company. What
could possibly go wrong on April Fool's Day? Scott Knitter - are you
also moving to the new company?

The main contract for CMS on which I continue to work remains the
same. The environment remains challenging. As far as I can tell, it's
the nature of computer tech work now to expect too much of the
hardware, software, and people involved. My job and its expectations
has expanded exponentially. Some of it is easy. Lots more is really
difficult - no training, no orientation, limited support. More for
less.

Medications and symptoms from the "massive saddle P.E." are, after 3.5
months, finally beginning to stabilize and recede. I've been sleeping
a great deal, and have had very little energy for anything but the
rock-bottom basics. It's typical of a recovery, neither easy nor
straightforward.

Our choir director/organist quit Wednesday. She leaves a hole and an
improved (if tiny) choir. We use the organ and choir ONLY for our 11am
service. That service is soon to be combined with the 9am
family-friendly service (they are very lucky to have a wonderfully
talented folk musician for their service music) as we're too small a
congregation to sustain both services plus the 'standard' Rite 1 8am
eucharist. As usual. It's not the changes we know and prepare for,
it's the ones we can't see and can't prepare for!

Feeling very much out-of-sorts, wishing for faster healing, hoping for
enough energy this weekend to begin gathering data for tax returns,
praying for renewal.

hugs & prayers - Cady