It’s coming up on time to head for bed. I’ve been getting up early and
working on the deck for about an hour or so before spending a few
minutes in the hot tub, and then cleaning up to go to work. The deck
hasn’t been refinished, stained, or sealed since it was built about 5
years ago. It was getting into sorry shape. So, since Monday morning
I’ve been working on cleaning the wood so that it can be stained and
sealed. I’ve got at least two more days of work to complete the cleaning
process, and maybe three days. The railing around the deck is taking the
most time and by the time I spend an hour or so, I’m pretty sore. I
still need to finish the railing, do the hot tub, and then do the deck
floor one more time. Then after it dries for at least 24 hours, I can
begin doing the actual staining and sealing. Hopefully when I’m done
it’ll be looking like a deck that has been somewhat maintained.

It has been extremely dry here in Colorado. Some have referred to this
as the hundred-year drought. Today was the first rain in a very long
time, and it only lasted for about a half hour. We’ve had a number of
wildfires around the area, and it will probably get worse as spring
turns into summer. But with the rain today a cold front has moved
through making the evening very cool. We even turned the furnace on to
warm up the house a little bit. It’ll likely be too cold tomorrow to use
the cleaning solution. If so, then I’ll use the morning to do some
repair work on the deck. I need to fix a board on the steps and tighten
up a number of screws.

It’s a Wednesday evening. The noise on the TV is the Colorado Avalanche
in hockey playoffs against the San Jose Sharks. Just at the end of the
2nd period Colorado leads this game 2-1. San Jose leads the series 2-1.

Today the Chairman and CEO of LSI Logic, Wilf Corrigan, visited the
office. He conducted a briefing on the current company situation for
about an hour or so and then took questions. LSI Logic was severely
impacted by the high-tech implosion last year and is just now starting
to recover. He says that we’ll be cash-flow positive by the end of the
2nd quarter (end of June) and will return to profitability in September
to October. Meanwhile our stock has tanked. It got down to below $10 a
share yesterday but last night’s announcements from Cisco and GE caused
a pretty good market bounce. The stock recovered to just over $14 today.
It can stay down around these numbers for another week, however, since
the Employee Stock Savings Program will do their stock buy on May 14th.
The cheaper the better as that sets the buying price for the next year.
Further, I should have been granted a number of stock options last week,
again at a very favorable price. I’ll be retiring in five to seven years
and these options are a key component of our retirement savings program.

I’m headed for bed in a few minutes. I’m worn out and Nina has already
headed that direction. Perhaps more later this week!

This entry was copied from an older journal into this system on 29 November, 2002.