Will Death come soon, please?

I've finished most of my brain dump. In fact, I absorbed someone else's brain dump since she was lucky enough to escape both the frying pan and the fire. I guess I'll have to do that one for her in the last partition since she's now left. What's funny is what's going on with a certain older technology. For some reason, our outsourcer cannot find anyone to do this, even though it was once quite popular. Maybe not in India though. In fact, when I came to this company in 1993, it was because of my skill in that technology (it was DOS based then) to order to write a payroll system. That payroll system STILL runs. (In DOS, no less) One other coworker has a number of larger programs in that technology. They can't replace him, so he and his set of applications are being pushed out till the last phase. Word on the street says that he will be given his severence package and asked to leave. The outsourcer will then likely turn around and hire him for his expertise, but there's no guarantee that his time with them will be lengthy. How ironic. Headlines: older technology saves tech jobs. And here, we were all racing to try to catch up to supported technology...