Day Three: Still faking it 'till I can make it.

I sneaked in an extra gym session on my way home last night, so I burned around 850 calories yesterday. I also kept to healthy eating (including a quick and tasty pasta dish whipped up by unblinkered in 15 minutes when I crawled back into the flat) so Tuesday counts as a win. I'm looking at the scales already, which is stupid since I know I should only weigh in once a week. I was down on my calorie count on the cross trainer this morning (364 in 30 minutes) but I did manage to get up and out without too much fuss, and even had time for five minutes in the jacuzzi.

LJ Lay offs PANIC PANICS OH NOES!!! oh wait...

A lot of angst yesterday over a rumour site posting that LJ had laid of 20 of their 28 staff, and that they were obviously circling the drain.

A little digging around came up with figures of 17 from their LA office out of 30, and no cuts back in Russia. It looks a lot more like moving expensive support roles offshore (or, to be accurate, back onshore to Russia). I don't know if the mainframe support was outsourced when they had their servers moved to Montanna, but the financial logic of having a full scale operation on the West Coast of America must have been looking, well, less than compelling.

Of course, our New Russian Masters (whom I for one welcome) couldn't communicate anything about this until the staff involved were informed, but I'm surprised that there hasn't been any clarification today.