I have finally had my first face-to-face interview. The job isn’t exactly a brainteaser, but it pays ok and has some benefits. What I like about this job is that they are a seismic company that make seismographs, monitor them, and license the technology overseas. My job isn’t nearly as glamourous. It entails documenting future blasting/excavation sites both in urban and rural areas with camera/videocamera and coalescing it back at the office. There are good and bad things about this. They give a pretty generous vehicle maintenance stipend per month. That’s good. I use my own car. That’s not so good. It seems that they give the field techs (the job I interviewed for) lots of freedom and leeway to do their job. That’s good. I’ll be in and out of buildings all day. That’s good and bad. Keith, the interviewer, is deciding next week, which is good. I hope to have another job interview next week as well, so I’ll be able to choose (crosses fingers). That will be good.

Apple has released iTunes 4.9 today with the functionality of podcasting. This excites and dismays me. I was just listening to the podcast of Inside Mac Radio and there was a commercial inside it! How is it that podcasts, the epitome of underground and sometimes illegal information has now gone corporate? I hit the fast forward button and got through it with minimum damage done, but how long before you’re downloading more commercial than content, as it is with commercial radio/TV/DVD now? Still, its nice to have podcast ability in iTunes finally. I like the interface, just like the iTunes store, and Apple hasn’t discriminated yet on podcast availability, so the content is safe…for now.

After watching the Carl’s Jr. commercial and never wanting to eat there again (not that I could in the first place) I have found this. I got it from kontraband.com which has a lot of other things not meant for children, so be careful. This video is suitable for all ages, so no worries there.

Yea. Still don’t have one.

Just sent out a mass email to 78 people! If we missed you in the shuffle, please let me know and I will send you one with a special note tailored just for you.

Well…here I am in Columbus. Whee. No call from Terry. Truly shocking. On the upside, I did install WoW (thanks to SmkViper) and I’m well on my way with my rogue. I’ll be happier when I finish that damn Relics quest. I can see the guy, I just can’t get to him. Grrrrr.

Completely unrelated to my last post, my friend Drew just sent me an email with this link to the Ben Winter Museum. I appreciate his attention to detail, but not all the steam engines.

and there are “red flags,” according to Terry. Let me begin at the beginning. Yesterday I got a call from Terry at TEK systems and he was interested in me for a help desk position. I called him today, twice, and finally got him in the late afternoon today. Looking at my resume, he said my employment history has two “red flags” or problems in it. The first one is from 2000 to 2004 where I had one job for several months. This is because I was lucky enough to have parents who would pay for me to go to school. He also said that the past six months with no work would be a problem, maybe. I was polite on the phone, even after I hung up and thought, well, if you were waiting for your wife to finish school in a crappy job market like Spokane and when you got job offers didn’t want to be an ass and not tell them you would be leaving in June, perhaps you would have a “red flag” on your employment history. Terry said he wanted to talk with his account manager, who is, I assume, the decision maker in this scenario and call me back when he gets an answer. Now, he did compliment me on my phone presence, but this seems like a small treat for the kid you want to leave you alone. Put this experience on top of watching “30 days” tonight and you have a recipe for a neurotic time. Didn’t catch “30 days?” Well, I’ll tell you what it is. Morgan Spurlock, of Super Size Me fame, decides to live in situations completely different from his own experience. So, tonight he moves to COLUMBUS, OH and works a minimum wage job. My Dad is saying right now, “That’s great! You could learn something!” Yea. Minimum wage jobs suck. Morgan and his girlfriend both work full-time jobs in Columbus and end up over a $1000 in the hole at the end of 30 days. I’m not worried…not at all. I am NOT listening to the little voices telling me I’m going to fail here. LALALALALALAA!

This post should reflect my geographic shift from PST to EST.

We have a townhouse! We have the keys and moved everything from the Tahoe into the living room. June is paid for and we’re going shopping tomorrow for a bunch of things to outfit our humble abode. We also went mattress shopping since Judy wanted to buy a housewarming gift (this is just an excuse to go to Pottery Barn, btw). So we went to several places and decided on Bedroom Expressions. This is only one store in a larger conglomerate, as the list shows. Anyway, we got the Doctor’s Choice firm mattress, king size, because I’m the king. Then, we went to Pottery Barn inside this LARGE shopping area called Easton Town Center which has every shop I’ve ever heard of within 1.5 million square feet. Now I thought that square feet was an inadequate measurement to use and so I went to answers.com and converted it to 34.44 circular acres, which isn’t such a round number, but works better for me. We went and shopped and shopped and Alisha walked us through how many pillow shams we needed. By the way, who made up the idea that a pillowcase is now a sham just because its decorative? This only convolutes the issue of how many pillowcases to buy and is a blatant effort to pad somebody’s pillowcase quota, hence the name. We got some shams and a duvet cover (don’t get me started on this one) and some other stuff. We also went and opened a new checking and savings account at US Bank, one of the more ubiquitous banks on the east coast. We are excited and will have picts up soon.