I started the week by filing my unemployment claim for the day I went unpaid.  I read afterward that I can only claim whole weeks at a time.  Oh well.  I noted in the claim that I had been paid for 4 days of the week.  I think I'm good.

After getting a few hot tips from some fellow ex-employees of Intel (also ex-military), I registered and submitted a few applications for civilian IT jobs posted for Fort Lewis. They looked to be right up my alley. I'm pretty sure that if I can get anything, it will probably have to be IT-related, even though my talents stray quite far from there.  There just isn't too much else to be found around the Olympia area for me right now.  I'm okay with that.

Allison suggested that I purchase my own domain and start some sort of  Geek-for-Hire website.  I've got it parked and ready for content at www.techbyken.com.  Part of the idea of this website is to be able to express my enthusiasm and knowledge of topics that might not make it onto my resume.  I need to work on that some more.