BIG news on this end. at least from my current employment point of view. it appears as though as of december 15th, i will no longer be an employee of deluxe corporation. this is sort of sad in some ways because i've been employed by deluxe for almost 13 years (since april of 01 i think?). the good news is that i will be offered a position next week by one of deluxe's outsouce companys, t-systems. it's sort of a bitter-sweet thing because, although i'm glad to retain my employment, many of my co-worker were not as fortunate as a large chunk of IT positions were eliminated. suffice it to say that, in short, i'll be doing the same job, at the same place, with basically the same benefits and compensation. so all in all, i'm happy it's worked out the way it has. more later...