Another great weekend. If you'd like to know what I did, read last weekends post; nothing changed.
I guess one change is that I did manage to call Carmen this weekend. Two hours on the phone with her. It didn't seem that long. She's done school now and is looking forward to taking a semester off and slowing down a little. She's doing the Dragon Boat thing again so I guess I can look forward to some more fund raisers in the coming year.
Lastly, I created a new page that contains links to some war releated blogs that I read about in the Globe this weekend. You can find the _war blogs link under the _local menu.
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Friday 03.28.03Ah, blessed Friday... So, the big buid went out today and I'm happy that the crack QA department did it's job and no bugs (that we know of!) made it through to the live site. It's amusing to me that everyone was so stressed over the build; it was a big thing for them. I was stressed too as I'm not that experienced with the software but really, the guys at IW would be laughing. This was something that we would've done while planning the next pool tourney...
Today was probably the longest day I've put in so far, though we did go for lunch as our co-op was leaving today. Sadly, the other Mark got a $40 parking ticket after we were five minutes late getting back to his car. What's shitty is we had limited change and the machine refused two credit cards. I'm so happy that I walk everywhere now. I find that I really look forward to the walk in the morning. I walked home after the damn bus driver rolled past the stop on Richards tonight. Maybe two people standing at a bus stop don't quailfy anymore. Bastard...
So Shnewt has decided that my link to a 'special' sort of purse might actually be a good idea for his beloved. May I suggest you re-think that if you ever want to see her nekid again. Obviously Paul doesn't grasp that I was out of work for over nine months and had a lot of time on my hands. And you wonder why I miss cNet...
One thing I do find odd is that I still find myself curiously drawn to the job sites that I used to hate surfing. I'm so happy with the new job and feel really lucky as a lot of my ex-work buddies are not all that thrilled about their new jobs. Yet I still find myself checking them out just to see what's out there. Maybe it's remind myself of how lucky I am.
Saturday I'll file my (hopefully) last EI report and I got my first cheque this week as well, so life is good. I just got off the phone Neal and I'm happy to report that he's moving into a management position at work! Congrats on that!
Well, time for dinner as I try to stay awake until OZ comes on.
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Wednesday 03.26.03Wow, I can't believe it's Wednesday evening already. This week is really flying past. I've been able to walk to work all week but I grab a bus home. Still not smoking while workng and it's not even an issue anymore.
Today was really busy and I completed my first major test and found a kick ass bug. Woohoo, I rock! There's still a long way to go so I'm not getting too happy with myself. Friday is shaping up to be ugly with a really big build coming down so that will probably put the end to having lunch with Neal. Gotta give him a call and tell him it's a day to day thing. Planning on lunch with Karan for Thursday and that might need to wait as well. It's not like it's that busy as much as I'm still slow as I haven't learned all the processes.
I'm excited by the speed at which things happen in there though. One guy has been playing with Sharepoint for a couple of weeks and after one meeting yesterday, we're going with it. Nice. It'll help too as the documents are everywhere.
Quick post tonite... I'm meeting Biff for a coffee and he's just about due to call so with that I'll bail.
This concludes tonite's tranmission from the mothership.
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Sunday 03.23.03Nice weekend; it felt good to have a weekend mean something again. Now for the first full week of work.
I stumbled across this story over the weekend and thought the Infoslaves might find it interesting. As a shareholder of Infowave, I found it interesting. Maybe Thomas is getting bored.
I did a lot of domestic stuff yesterday and then went to Neal and Ardie's in the evening. Brian was over there making pasta and I had some time to kill before the Malaysian GP so I thought I'd stop in for a visit. Headed back to watch the race and really enjoyed it! The new regulations do seem to be working and the racing is exciting again.
I wondered if the rain had something to do with the previous race and while it had an impact, the news rules also played a part. Good to see because last year was the most boring in the ten years I've been following F1 and I'm pretty fanatical.
Got a call from Janice today and she was all full of energy and looking for something to do, so we got together for brunch. It was nice to get together with her as we've both started new jobs and we had something else to talk about besides being out of work. We attempted to go to the beach but the wind has been brutal this weekend and we aborted that after a couple of blocks. In any event, brunch took the energy right out of her, not to mention me and we parted ways. Ran into Brian at Super Valu and chatted with him for a bit this afternoon and then I came home to enjoy the rest of my afternoon.
Watched the game, made lunch for tommorrow and that was about all. Just realized that I meant to call Carmen but it's too late now. What a boring post, but after nine months of not working, this was one of the best weekends that I've had in a while. Nothing but domestic crap but it had to be done as I won't have time during the week and that is a good feeling. Sometimes boring can be good.
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Friday 03.21.03Quick entry tonight... I'm tired but it's a good tired. The first week is under my belt and I'm happy.
I went out and treated myself to that MP3 player today! It's so cool and small; 128MB for the tunes and an FM tuner to boot. It was a lot to spend but I had the money and after nine months of not spending anything, I figured I'd go for it.
One of the guys has set up a projector in the office and we've been had the war on all day. I thought I'd post this as it's interesting and demonstrates the power of the internet and blogs. It's the well-known blog of a young Baghdad resident writing as the war rages on. Kinda makes this look like meaningless drival, doesn't it?
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Thursday 03.20.03Day 3 and all is well... I really feel very comfortable with everyone and the role that they want me to play. A second guy was hired yesterday, also named Mark and we met with the CEO this morning. Basically he told us that we were both choosen because they felt that we would fit right in. I guess they were fairly accurate as we both feel pretty good in there. Obviously, there's a bit of awkwardness as we don't know each other yet but I don't think it will take long. It's a small place and there aren't that many to get to know.
I got a call from Aya this morning... she didn't realize that I had started already and wanted to chat. I guess she's a little freaked by the war. I don't think she's in any danger but it is a heavily muslim place and I think that worries her. She doesn't have much longer so hopefully she'll relax a little. I can really say that I wouldn't be a bit worried if I were her. Not that I think muslims are any more dangerous than anyone else, just the proximity to the war is concerning.
Yet more hits from people searching for my XXXXXXX. Since I re-did the site structure the page that Google returns has moved so I guess I'll do a special page dedicated to the subject and wait for it to be crawled. It's pretty bunk that so many people are being annoyed by this idiot that they take the time to do a search on his number.
I may have found a new MP3 player for me to covet. I was out on my lunch hour today, feeling like the luckiest guy in the world and decided to stop in at A&B Sound on my way back. Now they have a Rio S50 and it would appear that the features are the same as is the price. Just a new model in a different body, though I have to say, I think I prefer the S35. Gonna look into it tonight and think about it some more. Not like I need it but I do really want it.
Walked to work again today and the rain held off until about Georgia and Howe. I've been taking the bus because of the rain but I do want to try to walk as much as possible. Tonight I was going to hop on the bus but then I heard about the anti-war protest at the Art Gallery and I thought better of it. Good thing to as the buses were all parked at Howe. So I saved $4 and got some exercise, it's healthy.
Speaking of healthy, I'm not smoking during the day at work. I smoke before and when I go for lunch but not during the day. Gonna see how that goes. It's a bit tough it that they don't have a pool table or something when you need to just take a break for a few minutes. The next thought is to go for a smoke but I haven't to date so I just sit there and keep working. I figure that if I stick with it I'll get used to it. I don't really feel like I need a smoke, but I do feel like I need a break but the office is small; not even a lunchroom to go hangout it for a bit.
Whatever, I'll adapt.
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Tuesday 03.18.03[UPDATE] Yikes! What a busy day but it felt good! Today was the first day and it was nuts. The girl that I'm replacing left today... I'm the QA department. I can do it but I'm already feeling the pressure to get up to speed. Whatever, it beats not working. The great thing is that I feel really comfortable in there; the people are really great and friendly.
The office is so different from anything else that I've worked in and I love it. It's so old and you can here the Asian college next door playing movies and no one knows what the hell is going on upstairs which I think is the Radiant office. I was warned that if someone upstairs spills something, it'll drip through the planks and I think something fell from the ceiling this afternoon! It's pretty rough but it's a really old loft. Perhaps the money they've saved on decorating means they'll be around for a good long time. It has a ton of character and feels good.
The software is really cool and I know that it won't be long before I'm up and running. To put it into perspective for the Infoslaves, the bug count for one month was roughly equal to a typical build. IW is incredibly complex and has to run one a ton of platforms so it isn't a totally fair comparision but it was encouraging to know that I could indeed handle the load.
I also got an offer today as well. The North Vancouver place finally called and offered me an Analyst position rather than the Developer position. If they'd been faster, I'd be up there now but I'm so happy with the way things have turned out. It just feels right to me and that's huge.
I know that I've got my work cut out for me in the next few weeks but I'm going to give it my best shot and I think I'm going to come out ahead.
I think being in a smaller company is really going to be a benefit. After one day I realize how much I had learned at IW so a big thanks to everyone there for all they taught me! You know who you are... [/UPDATE]
Well Monday was very busy for me; good thing I was free to try and get it all in. Turns out that ResponseTek is getting a grant to help cover my training costs but all the paperwork had to be done by 4 PM on Monday. I knew nothing of this and was out looking for some clothes when I found out. I had planned to have lunch with Carmen but that fell through which was too bad. It might be a while until we can hook up again.
When it rains, it pours... I was chatting with Paul before I left yesterday and he said that he gave a reference for me in the morning. Now I read on his blog that Spanky took three calls with Paul and Walter taking one each. Not only that, I got a call from a place in North Van asking me to come for an interview today. Whatever, I'm happy with where I am. Or where I'll be in a couple of hours.
I'm not nervous at all, just excited and I want to get on with it. The first week is always a tough one but you just have to get in there. Plus it's nice to know that I've come full circle and will soon have some new goals to shoot for. I always knew it would happen eventually but there were times when it seemed like it was so far away. It feels good to be back on track.
Need a giggle? Read this. Sounds like a fun place to work and personally, I think placing a note is a challenge to do it again. I used to do this very thing to all the Ken dolls in Paul's cube but he seemed to enjoy it. Good times...
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Sunday 03.16.03*Hungover*
Went out to the Commodore Ballroom with the gang last night but I'll let you read about it on Shnewt's page as there's no point in me relating it all over again. A good time was had by on and Rachel and I were able to abuse Paul to the point where he finally relented and did a tequila shooter with us. That probably has something to do with our collective hangovers. Of course I at least spell check before I post. Seriously dude, proofreading is a good thing.
I think Paul was just too excited to post his page of me in drag. For whatever reason he's obsessed with creating pictures of me in drag, which might also explain all the energy he put into trying to get me to go and see Chicago. I might add that I fought that all the way.
Natrually the drag page isn't working and sadly, I'll probably need to help him fix it. Am I a good friend or what?
So upon leaving the club last night all I could think about was getting a hot dog, which I did. Here's a tip for you; drunk people should not walk while attempting to eat a hot dog. By the time I got home I had relish and mustard all over my pants and my fingers were practically fused together. I'm sure that was a pretty site for the people on Robson of which there were many.
Today after a suitable period of trying to decide if I was dying, I boldly ventured out amongst the other humans. Now that I'm an employed person I felt it was safe to spend a little cheddar on myself after over nine months of watching my pennies. I was also long gone by the time I realized that the mustard and relish were all over my jacket too. Nice.
First stop was A&B Sound as I have coveted this MP3 player for some time now. It's a bit pricey but I was suprised that it had come down about $35 since the last time I looked at it. Sadly they had none in stock so I guess I'll need to wait a bit.
I took a walk past the new office and then headed back to buy some clothes. Then a bird shit on me. That's right, a bird, shit on me.
Normally that would piss me right off and it's not like I was thrilled about it, but knowing that I have a job meant that my mood is a bit better than normal. I mean I need to wash the jacket anyway. I'm not sure how long I can expect this new mood to last but something tells me that the next time a birds shits on me I won't be so easy about it.
That sort of took the desire to walk through Pacific Center away, so I headed back home. Still feeling the effects of last night and me thinks I'll take a nap. Oh yeah, and do some laundry...
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Saturday 03.15.03
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EM-FUCKING-PLOYED!!
Joy of joys, I'm back in the saddle! After the great interview on Friday,
I got a call today and ResponseTek is now my new employer! W00T!! One QA Specialist coming up!
I'm starting next week and I couldn't be happier. Not just to be working but also to be at a place where I think I can make a contribution and be happy to tell people where I work. Plus it also achieves my long standing goal of working and living downtown. Maybe I'll finally be able to sell my car after all.
This interview just had one of those good feelings to it. Probably only jaalaM had the same sort of feeling while all the rest were just jobs. Truthfully Rezrez had a pretty good feel to it until the last interview... it'll be interesting to hear what they have to say as they are to get back to me on Monday.
I'd write more but this really hasn't sunk in yet and I'm going out tonight so check back later.
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Thursday 03.13.03My, my... what a difference a few days can make. I just got back from my Gastown interview and it was fantastic. Really nice company and great people plus they have this totally funky Gastown office. The entrance is just a hole in the wall on Water Street and I almost walked past it. I felt like I was walking into a hostel or something and then when I get into the office, wow! Very nice.
I spent over ninety minutes talking to three guys and you could just tell from how they interacted with me and each other that there's a great chemistry in there. Not only that, they're going to make a decision this evening and let the applicants know on Monday.
I don't know what my chances are apart from my feelings on the interview. I guess I have a good chance and they're looking to add a couple of people so hopefully I did enough to have me be one of them.
I know that I'd hop at the chance to work there. Great location, people and technology, plus I think they plan on paying the person that they hire. What more could I ask for? *fingers crossed*
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Thursday 03.13.03Feeling better today... Yesterday was the shits but I've come to the conclusion that it wasn't really my fault and that maybe I was blowing things out of proportion. It's hard to have perspective at times like these.
Had a slow day today and just sat here giving thought to my next move. I have to say thanks to Janice our chat last night helped me clear my head a little. We've propped each other up a lot since we've been out of work and I'm really happy that she's getting back on track.
The worst part of being out of work is the uncertainty, not the lack of money. You can always cut back on things and I haven't even really done that all that much and have been fine. A cup of coffee with a friend, a walk on the seawall or a geek magazine are usually enough for me so it's not like I need to run out and buy a bunch of new clothes all the time. Hell, I don't buy clothes when I am working so why would I do it now?
On the good news front, I got a call this evening and will be in Gastown Friday afternoon for an interview, so that also helped my frame of mind. Like I said, no one has said no to the other job, but at this point I've got a bit of a bad taste in my mouth over it all. Now at least I have something else to focus on and work towards.
Oh yeah, I got an email from another place that I had appleied to a while back. The one where I had to hand code a page as part of the application process. I didn't get that either but in this day and age, just getting a rejection email is a considerate move. No biggie on that; it was a support job and the pay was shitty. Nice of them to get back to me though.
How about that game tonight! Wow, just like the playoffs and nice to see Brad May getting things going in his first game. I wouldn't be too upset to see a Vancouver/St.Louis series at some point in the playoffs.
Well, I'd better do some work for the interview tomorrow. Hopefully this one will go a bit better. Perhaps this weekend I'll look into why all the anchors aren't working. Right now I don't have the time or interest.
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Wednesday 03.12.03Today was interview day and while I think I'm possibly over-reacting, I don't think the tech portion went well. All that time I spent studying and not one question about ASP or XML.
If you ask me, it was kinda strange to have the senior achitects asking me questions as I can't imagine that I'd have anything to do with them in day to day operations. To put it into perspective for the Infoslaves in the crowd, it'd be like sitting with Rob Muir and Kaz and having them ask me to code for them as part of the interview process.
Reading code is one thing but writing it in front three people you're trying to impress while you're already nervous seemed extreme to me. If I were applying for a dev job fine, but this is a QA position. Whatever, I guess it's their choice in how they conduct their interviews but I'd be surprised if I got the job at this point.
I was in the middle of writing this when Janice called and hence the reason that this hasn't gone up until Thursday. Not that I was in that much of a rush to let let the world know that I'm an idiot, but I just didn't get back to it.
She has started a job at the aquarium on Monday and has moved into a new place to boot. She sounded tired and only had a day of training before the woman she was replacing left, so it's going to be a long week for her too.
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Tuesday 03.11.03Tomorrow is the big interview and I'm feeling good; I think I've done all that I can in order to prepare. It's hard to prepare when you don't really know what to expect. You take a shot and hope for the best.
The forecast for Wednesday is calling for heavy rain, so I'm looking forward to getting up there in a downpour. A half inch of rain... that's more like an inch on the North Shore but no big deal, it's a short cab ride.
As per Karan's request, the named links are in place. You can know knock yourself out linking to my daily drivel. I've no idea why he wants to do that but I have no idea why anyone ever comes here anyway, so who am I to refuse a simple request? Go nuts.
Tomorrow I'll prepare to sell myself to them in a big way. It's not unlike a salesman going into a company to do a presentation. You need to be sure of what you want them to know and you can't sutter and stammer as you try and tell them. I think by now I have done these final round interviews enough to know what I need to do.
On the other hand no one has hired me yet so maybe I still need to work on it. I don't know. All I do know is that it's stressful...
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Sunday 03.09.03Just a quick update today while a have I bite to eat for dinner.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Aussie GP last night! Ah, the F1 season has begun and the world just seems like a better place. I thought it was really exciting, which is not the norm in F1, and up until the final ten laps or so the win was up for grabs.
This most likely won't be the same for the balance of the season, certainly not after they get back to Europe. Schumacher was a second a lap faster than everyone else in qualifying and he was using last year's car so it looked like a repeat of 2002 where the real race was for third. I still expect Ferrari to be dominant but with some of the rule changes this year, there could be some interesting racing.
The studying is going really well, though much slower than I'd hoped. My initial plan was for 150 pages a day which is fine if I just read but when I do the assignments, it really slows things down. Not to mention that my box was protesting over the .NET SDK and related software that I had to install.
That being said, ASP.NET is so cool and relatively speaking, easy to code. I've done a ton today and started pretty early this morning to attempt to make up for lost time. I took a break this afternoon after my eyes fell out of my head and rolled under my desk again.
*mental note, vacuum under desk*
Stopped again to eat and now I'm about to install a DB and continue on through the balance of the chapters. I'm particularly interested in the DB setup as it'll make it so much easier to the track the herbal Viagra providers that I've submitted Shnewt's address to.
Plus, if Angelo and Karan don't start updating more often, I'll be forced to add them to the mailing list.
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Friday 03.07.03Well, I found the snow today to be a little weird, particularly down here. It was really coming down for a while but never amounted to anything. It's March, dammit!
With the upcoming interview in mind, I bolted to the bookstore and bought an additional text to go with the ones I already have. While I think I'm fairly well prepared to answer the questions that'll be posed to me, I want to make sure that I don't leave anything to chance.
I have five days to study and in that time I'll need to read about 550 pages plus allow time to actually have the information sink in and do the setup. Hmmm... What's that? About 150 pages a day should do it. It's actually nice to be put under a load even if it's self imposed.
With that said you can imagine that I won't be venturing far from home over the next few days. This is my chance and I'm going to give it my best shot. I'm feeling pretty good about my chances though after all I've been through, I'm not getting excited until I'm sitting in my plush and tastefully decorated new cubicle.
I did meet up with Neal for our Friday coffee and now Ardie is the one who's sick. That sucks as it's a hard bug to shake. It was pretty nice by then and the sun was out so we didn't freeze too badly.
We were speculating on when the golf season can start up again. I took a walk past there last weekend and noticed that the snow fence had been rolled up and the regular greens were being used. Hopefully I won't be able to make the Friday games...
So now Shnewt is the fourth longest serving employee at Infowave.
SELL! SELL IT ALL AT ANY PRICE!!
Thankfully he's not their chief joke teller... If he was, I guess that would put him in finance.
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Thursday 03.06.03I finally realized that MSN died or froze or whatever on me again, so I guess I've been offline for an unknown length of time. Nice. Thanks Bill, another fine product. Actually, MSN is really cool and that's why it pisses me off. To me, I'm online and my stocks are being updated and all that but I don't see any new mail. I go to send a message and it tells me "You're offline" I am? When did that happen? I go to Hotmail and I have a dozen messages.
For the first time in a long time I attempted a trade this morning. I figured that with a view to the long term, this might not be such a bad time to put a little money in and also average down a bit.
I thought I'd be smart and put a limit order in on some SPY but I didn't get it any. It was dropping and I put my order in for 0.20 under what it ultimately closed at. Normally I just go for market but there was a huge spread on it and I was in no hurry, so I tried a limit.
No big deal, I'll try again tomorrow. I was more impressed that I didn't need to call my broker for my trading password as I've had to do the past couple of times.I had another phone interview today and the guy was pretty cool. He said he was making some other calls as well and would get back to me. Hopefully I get the chance to at least go in for an interview. Nice Gastown location too...
Later this afternoon, I got a call from the North Vancouver place and I have another interview with them next week. For this one, I'm definitely moving up the chain, meeting with some developers and the QA Manager. That's great and it's all I really want; just a chance to go in. If they choose someone else, so be it, but I just need the chance to get in the door and talk to them.
I guess this means I'll bury my nose in a text book and not emerge until it's time for the interview.
In news of the meaningless, someone from Multiactive had a look at my page today. I don't think I know anyone at Multiactive. Maybe they realize the error of their ways after they didn't hire me in the fall, or perhaps their decision was just confirmed...
Of course the important news is that the F1 season officially begins tonight with qualifying from Austrailia! Quite a few rule changes this year so I'm pretty excited to see how things pan out. Plus there's always something special about the first race of the season. So many possibilities. Been chatting with Simon about it all and he's still as rabid as ever. The best thing he ever did was to finally break down and buy a computer.
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Wednesday 03.05.03The Linux experiment is going well so far. I'm really enjoying learning the new OS and it's reminding me of my early days with Windows. Lotsa head scratching going on as I navigate my way through a completely different file structure.
With Windows, I know where things are and where things get installed and where to go to find something but not so now. I'm still searching around and just browsing the file system, trying to get familar with it. It won't happen over night but it's fun and I'm picking more up everyday.
I've been able to get Samba running but I still need to tweak the configuration file some more. Samba allows a *NIX machine to connect to a Windows machine and share files. So far I can see the Windows machines from Linux and can access one of them but while the Linux box shows up in the Network Neighborhood, I can't hit it yet from the Windows machines.
The biggest problem to date is the available browsers and how they handle pages. Opera is better in Windows in fact it's a full version behind the Windows offering and has an irritating habit of shutting down for no reason. I don't like Mozilla much and while Konqueror is great it doesn't support the latest in CSS stylesheets so pages like this one puke badly. IE is an excellent browser and if Microsoft were to do a Linux version as they do for Apple, I'd probably use it. I'm not going to hold my breathe for that one though.
I still seem to be having some memory issues though. When I installed Linux this time around I was careful to only choose what I thought I needed rather than just going for everything but it doesn't seem to have helped much. It's like the memory isn't released after I close application and yet, if I didn't have the monitor running, I don't think I'd notice it all that much. The box is the one I got from IW and it's a P3 450 with 256MB of RAM and it seems to be running nicely so far.
I figure that getting Apache up and running is the next step though it seems to be a bit more daunting than Samba was. Still I'm going to give it a shot and see if I can get it going as at some point I'd like to host the site on it.
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Tuesday 03.07.03I've been giving thought to why I have this blog and what a blog is. To me, it's a tool to let people keep on top of what I'm up to. Obviously being out of work doesn't leave a lot to write about and yet I still have a life. Maybe I should have more to write about given that I don't go to an office eight hours a day. Most of the people who visit know me and can put faces to the names. Some can't and yet still they come back.
I enjoy a number of people's blogs. Mostly they are friends but a good deal are people I've never met and their writings are still entertaining even if I don't have knowledge of the characters they write about. I don't read them to get news, Google does a much job of that than a blog could ever do. I don't read them for political commentary as generally I could give a shit and if I do care there are better sources to get that sort of information.
I do enjoy writing about the silly things that I get up. Like Paul and I trying to outsmart Rachel after finding ourselves in an awkward situation and being forced to lie on the fly. We know we don't have a chance in hell of pulling it off but still we try and it's funny to me.
You start to look at the world differently, noting 'blogworthy' events in your day that might make for something interesting to post. I find these little adventures amusing and enjoy weaving the tales together but it's a lot of work and some days nothing of any interest happens. "So I was in Safeway today... what's with all the shitty produce?"
Right now it might not be unusual for me to spend an hour on a post tweaking the wording to get it just so. Other times I just slap it up and move on. The point being, when I'm working again I don't see myself spending an hour on a post, not do I see myself doing a new layout every couple of months.
I guess I've gotten away from my orignal intention again. I did this for me, because I wanted a page of my own. A place where I can vent or tell silly little tales and learn how to do more advanced pages as I learn about what's involved.
Now that might mean that I'll ramble in *geek* for an entire post because it's something that I'm going through at that time. For example, I just rebuilt two of the three boxes I have here and one of them started dying after a day. So I rebuilt it again and had it working perfectly.
I have SMTP running on it so that I can send email from my domain and now I find that something I installed after SMTP is also using port 25 and now the mail is stuck in the queue. Shitty. Do you understand any of that? Probably not but that's not the point. I post an entry like that not to make you think I'm an uber geek; I'm not. I post it because it's what happened to me and to me it's worthy of a post because it's my site.
After a rambling post like this, I feel better. It's an outlet for me and that is the main reason that I do this. But you know what? I feel good and I haven't uploaded yet. Maybe the actual publishing of the blog is the least important part...
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Tuesday 03.04.03I have nothing to say... Maybe the novelty of trying to amuse you is gone.
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