For those who haven't heard yet, I am employed once again. I didn't get the job with the City of Portland, so I accepted the position with Innsoft. Innsoft produces software related to the hospitality industry. I will be starting out doing tech support. Once I become familiar with the product and am up to speed on providing tech support, I will ( Read more... )

"I (understand) people. I am people... so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting."

- Valentine Michael Smith, in Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

I had three interviews this week. The first was for a staffing agency. Mostly temp to hire stuff. The second was mostly mostly warehouse work, with some data and batch managing, and computer/network troubleshooting. Sounds like they wanted to offer me a job but couldn't meet my wage requirement ( Read more... )

So I have been sending out resumes like crazy. So, I was just updating my resume to send out for another job, when I found a typo. An obvious typo. I have sent this out to a dozen potential employers, possibly more. I don't remember exactly when I last edited to add the line with the typo. Could have been last week, could have been last month ( Read more... )

American Gladiator is coming back.

Is this a sign that the Writers' Guild strike will not end soon? Perhaps. Time to sell my Television.

Happy B-Day to Grant and Bunny

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So I got my iPhone 24 hours ago, and waited until after dinner to set it up. I whizzed through the activation process only to get a message saying, "Your activation requires additional time to complete." Several calls to AT&T, later and all I really know is that it could be as long as another 48 hours before I am able to use my new toy. My old ( Read more... )

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So, I was just getting around to watching the first episode of "Drive", starring Nathan Fillion, of "Firefly" fame, when not even five minutes into the show, we are introduced to Detective Ehrle, played by Richard Brooks. For those of you who have watched "Firefly," Brooks played Jubal Early in the episode named "Objects In Space ( Read more... )