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It's been awhile since I've updated. I've actually been doing real WORK at Work(tm) instead of just goofing off. Of course, tomorrow's the Big Day. Supposedly, we're all (the entire office) no longer employed after tomorrow. But I went back and re-read the last notice we got, and all it says is that the earliest we can be terminated is tomorrow. Considering it's fairly obvious that they have a buyer and that we WILL be sold, they'll probably just keep us all on until the announcement. They say two weeks.
I have my resume on monster.com, not dice.com yet, but I think I'm going to do it today. Been looking in the local paper and following up with just about any lead I can get. I have an interview tomorrow with a small local company. I'm not that crazy about small companies. My last two jobs were with small companies and I left both because of financial problems. Plus, benefits are usually way less at small companies. And benefits are a big consideration right now. I have one or two other leads and I guess I'll just have to wait to see where they'll take me.
I'm bored but not-bored. For once, as I said above, I actually have stuff to do now. One of the things is kinda cool (porting our stuff to Linux), but the other is boring as hell. And it's the boring thing that has precedence(sp?) because it's a Customer Issue and fun Linux stuff always takes a back seat to boring, Important Customer Things. I'll probably do a couple more errands before heading back over to work on that again.
Oh yeah, our bed broke. Jen's parents gave us an entire bedroom suite (bed, low, wide dresser w/mirror, nightstands, tall, skinny dresser) as a wedding present. Mainly because her mom works at the furniture factory so she can get seconds cheap. This is supposed to be top-of-the-line high-end (read: expensive) furniture. So, I go to sit on the bed one night and the entire corner just crashes down. I hop up and look and the siderail is split lengthwise for the entire length of the rail. I looked more and there was just no way that I could fix it. It was busted.
We ran through a couple different ideas: couldn't tell mom, she'd freak out; can't call the factory, because it's a small place and a curious emergency shipment to the States would certainly get back to her mom and, thus, freak out; me fix it - I could, I suppose, but it'd be a lot of work and I may not have the proper wood-working tools; a friend or someone we know fix it - we dont' know anyone with good carpentry tools; call a professional/custom carpenter out of the phone book; buy a new bed/rail-if-possible if we find one similar enough.
She remembered seeing a bed that looked quite a bit like ours in the JC Penny catalog. She found it again and we'd have to buy the whole bed, they don't sell pieces (big surprpise there). The cost: $1000. For the bed alone. So, now I'm in the process of finding, calling, and getting quotes from carpenters in the area. Chances are, having a professional/custom carpenter make a replica would cost less than $1000. If not..... well, at least we'll have a brand new bed.
Job loss/change pending & More money to spend. Ain't life grand?
I have my resume on monster.com, not dice.com yet, but I think I'm going to do it today. Been looking in the local paper and following up with just about any lead I can get. I have an interview tomorrow with a small local company. I'm not that crazy about small companies. My last two jobs were with small companies and I left both because of financial problems. Plus, benefits are usually way less at small companies. And benefits are a big consideration right now. I have one or two other leads and I guess I'll just have to wait to see where they'll take me.
I'm bored but not-bored. For once, as I said above, I actually have stuff to do now. One of the things is kinda cool (porting our stuff to Linux), but the other is boring as hell. And it's the boring thing that has precedence(sp?) because it's a Customer Issue and fun Linux stuff always takes a back seat to boring, Important Customer Things. I'll probably do a couple more errands before heading back over to work on that again.
Oh yeah, our bed broke. Jen's parents gave us an entire bedroom suite (bed, low, wide dresser w/mirror, nightstands, tall, skinny dresser) as a wedding present. Mainly because her mom works at the furniture factory so she can get seconds cheap. This is supposed to be top-of-the-line high-end (read: expensive) furniture. So, I go to sit on the bed one night and the entire corner just crashes down. I hop up and look and the siderail is split lengthwise for the entire length of the rail. I looked more and there was just no way that I could fix it. It was busted.
We ran through a couple different ideas: couldn't tell mom, she'd freak out; can't call the factory, because it's a small place and a curious emergency shipment to the States would certainly get back to her mom and, thus, freak out; me fix it - I could, I suppose, but it'd be a lot of work and I may not have the proper wood-working tools; a friend or someone we know fix it - we dont' know anyone with good carpentry tools; call a professional/custom carpenter out of the phone book; buy a new bed/rail-if-possible if we find one similar enough.
She remembered seeing a bed that looked quite a bit like ours in the JC Penny catalog. She found it again and we'd have to buy the whole bed, they don't sell pieces (big surprpise there). The cost: $1000. For the bed alone. So, now I'm in the process of finding, calling, and getting quotes from carpenters in the area. Chances are, having a professional/custom carpenter make a replica would cost less than $1000. If not..... well, at least we'll have a brand new bed.
Job loss/change pending & More money to spend. Ain't life grand?