*HUGGLES!*

Would get you a gift but I dunno what you'd want. I've already pre-ordered all the books. :)

-Ratty

Wow...it's been four weeks since the last post. How time runs over you. Gave the airline job a pass. Not sure why. Just had a gut feeling they were trying to rush me into the decision for some reason they weren't being up-front about. That and the headhunters that set it up were making assumptions. After specifically telling them I wanted no interruptions over the weekend to think it over I get a call, 10 AM, Easter Sunday, from one of the staff welcoming me into the fold. Told them they screwed the pooch and never call me again....which they did. I erased the voice mail.

Since then it's been all kinds of fun. Mysterious sudden illnesses....air condition not working...twice....and my oh so wondrous uberboss Little Hitler (I didn't come up with this name) at work deciding my time would be better spent cleaning surplus out of an old storage area than doing sys admin stuff. He's a psychology major and they made him the head of information services. And he appointed The Village Idiot (I didn't come up with this one either) as my boss. TVI has literally made the comment "um...could you dumb that down a bit?" at meetings with outside vendors. Some of the looks have ranged from "why are you here?" to "oh...one of THOSE". One of the reasons I'm looking to get out. Still the primary reason is I Hate the South. I'll elaborate in a later post. This one is too negative as is.

Positive news, my kitty is still losing weight and has shown no signs of the return of the tumour she had on her face earlier this year. Still waiting to hear if they are considering me for the Purdue job. Hope is eternal because I really want to go home.


BTW, mizkit's new book comes out next week and I suggest you go buy it. BUY IT! :D

It's been an interesting past few days. Friday I was flown to Chicago for an interview with United Airlines. Spent a few hours interviewing and most of the rest of the day sitting in O'Hare eating bad Chinese and drinking green tea frapps.

Still waiting to hear back from them. In the mean time I applied again for a job at Purdue University. Would really love it if I got it. Would be able to move back into my own house again. :P

Until then it is work...feed da kitty...cook...sleep...repeat. At least I'm eating well these days. Found great recipes at http://www.101cookbooks.com/ and recommend the lentil soup. Pass on the Greek yogurt with saffron. Just use a dollop of sour cream if you must.

Once again after a startling 2 months of no problems my connection promptly drops to next to nil at 9 PM on Wednesday and promptly clears up at 9 AM on Thursday. See images below:





Their on-call tier 1 support guy (who swore he was as high as it goes in tech support) said they could send out a tech on Friday. They've sent out two before charging me $63.50. Fortunately the last tech left me his number and came by after lunch on Thursday and said he'd look for free. Nice guy. Needs a promotion. Even so I'll keep the phone number for the Crap..er...Comcast CEO in my phone book.