I GOT THE PROMOTION!!!!! I've just been given the offer (and accepted) to become the newest Client Services Assistant III at Convergys!!! I start Monday morning! Gonna be an adjustment moving back to daytime hours after almost 2 years on late-night hours...

After decades of searching, years of dreaming, and months of planning, I am at last married. As of September 25, 2010, periphrlbttrfly is now Mrs. Cathey!

At about 12:35 yesterday afternoon, my grandfather, Maurice Richards, went to spend Christmas with my grandmother in heaven. It's been a long hard fight for him since she went ahead of him, but now he can finally rest. RIP, PaPa...

Ok, when last we left our hero, he'd lost his excessively long-lasting temp position of 4+ years.  Now the story continues ( Read more... )

So, for the job search, I'll need to update the ol' resume.  I've done a bit of a re-write here.   Any suggestions for improvement?   For that matter, wanna hire me?

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Yup, I've just been bit by the recession/depression bug.  My manager just informed me that after just over 4 years working as a temp, after making it through not one, but TWO 'temp purges' and the original company being bought, the company finally has no choice but to let me go.   My last day is Friday unless Venturi is able to find me something ( Read more... )

Yes, as some of you surmised, I'm going to Sweden for an op.... oh wait, no, not that one...   On Christmas Eve morning, I got engaged to be married to periphrlbttrfly .

I've been planning this for a couple of months now.  I had wanted it to be a complete surprise, but I slipped up slightly... a few times... and she'd already figured out that I would very ( Read more... )

What's that you say? "But Christmas is the day after tomorrow. Isn't that the Big Day?"  Ah, yes, indeed, but that is not 'The Big Day' for me this year.  It is only the backdrop for something else this year for me.  Something will happen tomorrow.   Something big.   Well, maybe not that big, on the world stage.  In fact, I'm sure that CNN, Fox ( Read more... )

Voting Subroutine Completed.  No line whatsoever.

Maybe now I can stop getting 4-6 political fliers in the mail every bloody day...

Hey, look!  I'm posting in my LiveJournal.  Now, do I have anything to say?  No, not really...

Well, maybe one little thing...   I've completed the main storyline for a RPG campaign that I'll soon be running, using the Fantasy HERO rules, because I want my players to have full freedom to build their characters as they want (which definitely lets out ( Read more... )