I work in Chester, PA. For those of you who don't know Chester, it is an "under-developed" area just south of the PHL Airport. It was once known (and perhaps still is) as the Heroin Capital of the US (not to be confused with the Heroine Capital, Paradise Island). Recently, Chester has been going through a self-proclaimed Renaissance as many ( Read more... )

Perhaps you may have noticed that I haven't posted to LJ for quite some time. This is largely due to the fact that I have felt like nothing major has happened in my life to inspire an update. Sure I could treat you with the general mediocrity of my corporate-slave life, but something tells me that you would much rather spend your time living your ( Read more... )

So in celebration of my unemployment, I decided to get a new game for our PlayStation 2. I really enjoy the micromanagement-types of games -- games where the player controls all aspects of a certain subject matter (like managing a city or running a theme park or achieving global conquest). This, of course, is dangerous for me as I easily become ( Read more... )

Once upon a time when I was employed as a Recruiter (way back yesterday), I would sometimes use headhunter agencies to help fill hard-to-fill positions. Well, there is this one agency called The Career Doctor that was used on several occasions to assist with filling IT jobs. About a month ago, this agency filled two jobs and made about $40K off ( Read more... )

What a beautiful day to be unemployed ( Read more... )

I have been waiting a long time, but I have finally received the kookiest resume in my entire Recruiting career. The following is merely the cover letter (unedited for your enjoyment):

Hello Neighbor ( Read more... )

Next week I will start running my Call of Cthulhu RPG story with my Tuesday night gaming group and I am not too sure if I will be ready. So much more to write, so many more props to finish, so little time. I would really like to have everything "ready" before we start next week, but I think I need to remind myself that this group is highly ( Read more... )

I have notice recently that I am really starting to pick up a Philadelphia accent. Just today I pronounced the word "saw" as if I were saying the word "seaw" (whatever the Hell word that is). I don't like this one bit. I always fancied myself as having no regionalistic accent, but those days are, perhaps, coming to an unfortunate close. If ( Read more... )

Thank you everyone for helping me celebrate my birthday! If there is one thing that I have learned at the beginning of Year 31 of the Lex it is this: my liver is out of shape. Must drink more and more often.

And thank you _antipathy_ for making the birthday plan come together. Additionally, thanks to her, I now have a paid LJ account. It will be nice to ( Read more... )

And it came to pass on the 18th day of calendar’s end month that Lex of West Philadelphia was set to be cast out of the House of The Company into the barren wastes where his craft was in little want. It was told by the Lords of the House of The Company that possibly three score suns were to rise and fall before his parting, but he was wise to the ( Read more... )