But towards the end of the summer, a cold, cloudy summer not fit for beach activities, my unemployment insurance began to trickle down to the last few weeks, and no software prospects on the horizon, I decided that I had to do something for money.

He couldn't divert my attentions away from it because I had just been laid off my C/UNIX contract when the company I was contracted out to 'downsized' by 25%.Īt first, it was fun-going from a modest (for a contractor) income to the maximum possible unemployment benefit in California ($840/mo for doing NOTHING!) with all of this time on my hands an what seemed like a riot-a-day during the anti-war demonstrations. In early 1991, Bush was riding high, out to prove his manhood in Iraq, obviously a tactic to divert attention away from the floundering economy.