Thanks everyone, it's good to be in "employed land" again.
(Aside - Paladinwife accidentally double-tapped when she submitted the thread...if a mod/admin could combine the two threads we'd appreciate it.)
Stone Angel: I would've sworn I saw you there (briefly), sorry to have missed you too.
Fenris: Speaking of local...my workplace is now 10 minutes from my house! I guess those 5 years of driving 45 miles
one way to work have finally worked back down the karma scale.

We've (my other than The Gamer's Bag company) have taken over all technology aspects for an entire school district.
die_kluge: It has been a long, hard road - but in the end it's been worth it. We've held on against the greatest adversity and we've found out who we can count on and who we can't - both family-wise and friend-wise. We've kept our home and stayed together. Now, we have a chance to actually make a living again.
Thanks, once again, to everyone who's helped us along the way. So, now I'm working all day bringing the school district out of techno-hell and working most of the night getting dice bags made.

Woo-hoo!!! Also, I'm still DMing every two weeks...that, strangely enough, has helped me keep my sanity.