Chasing dreams and random stuff

I guess the raise thing has been settled, or at least beaten to death. Basically with the dot com bubble breaking techies/geeks aren't in as big of demand anymore, so I'm currently getting overpaid (?) or just on the border of where the system won't allow my manager to give me a raise. That or he's bullshitting me. Take your pick.

It's back to an administrative lkaw judge hearing next week. I hate it how the government can make it's own rules, and make it so that they're the exception in some cases. Wendy we denied unemployment benefits back in April, because they said she refused and offer without good cause and that she claimed she didn't receive an offer. Well we proved that no offer was made and turned in for evidence a bunch of stuff stating that with Wendy's health condition she shouldn't take a job in that stressful of a setting. So we "won" and she was able to collect unemployment again and didn't owe the state anything. She got a new job, and we thought it was over. Well of course not, some graybeard in Albany decided they want to appeal the decision. My take on it is they wanted to be there, well if they did then send somebody from the local DOL office. That and they want offer to mean a verbal conversation where an employer has the intention of making an offer. They don't have to actually make an offer just intend to. First rule of job hunting is don't quit your current job until you have an offer in writing from another employer. One would think the same would hold true here. Grrrr

About chasing dreams. Wendy and I were shopping at the mall on Sunday and we were strolling/rolling along I saw (or thought) I saw Julie going into the Gap with her mother and pushing a stroller. Now we don't shop at the Gap and I couldn't think of a good excuse to go in there, and I'm tired of chasing old dreams to see if it was in fact Julie. I'm still holding onto a dream from high school, which I graduated from almost 10 years ago. The only dreams I have anymore are my old dreams. Why have new dreams when your old ones turned out to be nightmares?