http://www.stoupak.com/Letters2/EN000703.TXT ---------------------------------------------------- Yuriy Stupak, 03jul2000, "To Whom It May Concern". ---------------------------------------------------- I was bored in June 1999: I had not enough reasons for struggling-to-survive. Remember my old letter: http://www.geocities.com/stoupak/Letters2/EN_90627.TXT I've got new 15 adventures in the second part of 1999: http://www.geocities.com/stoupak/Letters2/EN_91229.TXT My dozen adventures in the first half of 2000 follow: 1. I've got the payment from insurance company of the lady that hit my Chevy in the rear side. The payment was couple hundred dollars more than I paid for Chevy - and they left me my injured Chevy to drive. 2. I've studied how to make "jump start" (I made it 2 times on my Chevy in January). In February I failed - I took Chevy to repair shop and they changed alternator. 3. After that I hit my Chevy the 3rd time. I passed through the fence without big problems, but the pillar I hit bent my left mirror (that I replaced previously on a metal one). And three front lights were smashed to roots. Chevy ran, but after metal part of one wheel was unbent and another - replaced. And NO night driving (NO lights). 4. I decided that it's TOO MUCH and spent all my money ($5550+taxes) for another car: Ford-1996 with 79000 miles. I replaced both front tires next day and got in next weeks timing belt failure on highway exit. Since I purchased Ford I spent $1300 for three repairs. But I drive it to work now. 5. I asked Uncle Sam to return me difference in taxes from Single-1 to Married-2. Uncle Sam and Californian bear were VERY nice guys - they returned me difference for 1998 and 1999 year at the end of March. Now I send money to Moscow from this difference (and monthly add to the same account my - difference from this year salary). 6. I haven't changed my 2bedroom/2bath apartments in this semi year. This spring our (with roommate Dima) rent was increased from $1137 to $1158 per month. 7. I purchased 10 Gbytes disk and microphone for my PC, but I haven't purchased new PCs or NEW local network means. Red Hat is not working on the old PC 80486 anymore. 8. My roommate purchased another computer and subscribed on ATT "@home" cable modem... we switch the cable modem from one to another computer now. But we have permanent IP address and I can work from home with our SUNs and my PC at work now. 9. I've got my THIRD H-1B transfer from QSpace to EdgeNet in May. This is my FORTH H-1B in my first 2 years 7 months in USA. They also allowed me to pay 3cents per share for all my stock options NOW and insisted on sending the notification to IRS NOW (by contract I can use 1/4 after 1 year and all after 4 years). 10. My VoIP/ATM switching gatekeeper was deployed in EdgeNet Demo network in May. There are more than 12000 lines in C++ now (plus 1000 lines of SQL scripts) - in comparison with 4000 C++ lines of the 0.11 version of "OpenH323 gatekeeper" which I used as a base of EdgeNet switching demo gatekeeper. 11. I've fixed my good old Chevy at least. I got light panel, front bumper and left mirror on junk for $162 and paid $240 in body shop for repairing. Chevy runs great now (75 miles on highway) - only turn signals are not fixed yet (no flashing). 12. Since summer 1995 I used to change my job yearly, but now I see EdgeNet hires a lot more people than left it. I started to worry what the hell I should do "just in case" for the next? To update my own resume and send "To Whom It May Concern" - or to try again to collect resumes of my former colleagues if by any chance (or God-I-never-believe-in will) my current employer becomes successful startup in a huge telephony market?