Super Duper Quick Post

I don't feel that busy, but I haven't had time to post as frequently as I would like.  Here's a short, bulletized list of what's happening these days:

• I get up every day and take Betsy to school, unless Vic walks her to school.  When I get home around 8:00a, I start my job search activities.
  
• Morning job stuff takes about 2-3 hours.  I have a few meta-sites I use to search jobs, plus I get automated e-mails from some of them.  And I have friends and network contacts that are pretty consistently e-mailing me leads.  Finally, I get an odd recruiter or two that asks for information.
  
• Afternoons find me tapering down the job search, and putting in another 2 hours or so.  People use the cliche "finding a job is a full time job", but I've found that it's really a 4-6 hour per day job.  It's heavily front-loaded when you're creating resumes and getting your job search muscles toned up, but once you're ready, it's not too bad.  Of course, if you're traveling and interviewing, that's a different story.
• For exercise, I either get up early and run, or I try to get some riding in.  Yesterday I jumped out for a quick 17 mile ride, with some intervals in the middle.  The wind was NUTS down here.  My guess is 20+mph, with gusts close to 30mph.  I'd give you the link but Garmin's MotionBased site is getting flakier and flakier.  Terrible performance for a pay site.  Oh yeah -- I averaged 20 mph over 17 miles, with lots of the ride into the wind.  Pretty happy with my solo speed for this ride.
  
• I'm tentatively planning a long ride for Friday.  Gonna try to ride with Piojo and Dutch, but forecast looks a little chilly and rainy for the RGV.  We'll see.
  

That's all I have time for right now.  Vic and I are going to school for a picnic lunch with Betsy.  Can't do that if you're employed (at least not easily)!