Kid wanted to know why he couldn’t stream his webcam as part of a project. We told him we didn’t allow streaming from desktop machines on campus.
What was his project?
He wanted to stream a webcam pointing at a computer screen displaying a real-time graph of the temperature/ph of his fish tank. It was explained to him that there were better ways to get the data on the website than a stream of a computer screen.
We here at LydenCorp would like to extend our hearty congratulations to all employees for a fantastic year. Highlights follow…
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So yeah.
Some may remember this cryptic post from quite a while back. That was the first inkling of the possibility of the following announcement:
I have interviewed, passed the gauntlet, been offered and have accepted the offer of a promotion within my division at Rowan from Desktop Support to Junior Network Admin, Cisco Stuff.
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OK, so I haven’t written anything since September. I’ve been wary, what can I say?
I’m willing to admit that I’m frustrated and upset over how things have been regarding North Carolina. At last count I’ve put about 30 or 40 resumes out there and come away with 1 phone interview and a screening that led to a face to face that went nowhere only after pushing me up and down like a sine wave for two weeks. If you’re still reading, Stephen (or anyone else from the department), I know it wasn’t personal. I haven’t checked the logs for any hits from duke.edu lately but I’m not really worrying about that anymore.
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That is all.
Well…at least Steve is honest. I made some contacts and met new people. And those people were really cool. It’s a shame. I’m used to being cumbersome, though.
To-do list:
ComiXpress backend stuff
Flynn Interiors design
Talk to Fatima about HER site
I was gearing up to do web work for the next three weeks anyway. Might as well take the creativity and do something with it.
Even if I feel like a pole jumper trying to get over the wall around Jersey. And I keep seeing over the wall, but fall just short.
And smack into it.
With the interview, the baby, and what will wind up being a large interstate move of my very own
People keep quizzing me on why I want to move to North Carolina so badly. To me, it’s not so much that I want to move out of New Jersey, but that it’s gotten so expensive to live here that I don’t know what else to do. I’m in a job that, while it’s not horrible, is slowly shriveling my soul. I can’t do support as a full-time thing anymore. There’s no creativity in it, just repetitive motions and repeated admonitions from my mouth and out their ears. While this job is soul-shriveling, it’s a state job. The benefits are fantastic. Healthcare is not an issue (except when they drag their feet getting your newborn onto your plan *grumble*) . The salary is OK. It’s more than a lot of people I know make for a single income.
But in this lousy state, it’s not enough. I don’t want an eighty year old house in Glassboro for $200,000. It’s not where I want my son to grow up. I don’t want to live in a place where the population density is to the point where if I want to avoid living up someone’s ass I have to move to the Pine Barrens or Millville. If I get this job, we’re moving, and it’s not without regret. I love New York City at Christmas. One of my favorite memories is when Aimee and I went to see the BNL Holiday Show, and we took the train in from New Brunswick, and got on the subway, walked across the street through crisp winter air and saw a great little show. New York positively crackles in winter. And it’s not to say that I don’t love Jersey at Christmas either.
It’s just a lot to deal with. I’ve been thinking about it for a long, long time. Yeah, Jeff got to me a while ago, but it took until I had a family to realize it. I joke that the streets are paved with gold in North Carolina, but to me it’s not so far off the truth. It’s a beautiful place to live. It’s a place I can afford to buy a great house for m son to start his life in and it’s a place where very close friends have done great things with their life.
And that’s where we’ll do it too.
Thu Sep 06 2769 Depart PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL (PHL) at 5:25 PM
Arrive in RALEIGH DUR (RDU) at 7:05 PM
Fri Sep 07 192 Depart RALEIGH DURHAM (RDU) at 8:35 PM
Arrive in PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIO (PHL) at 9:50 PM
Meaning yeah, I got a face to face interview for a job at Duke. I’m worried about being away from the Little Bug for the night, but it’s a tremendous opportunity to get a great job, even if it’s contract-to-perm.
I’m really nervous, but I did a good enough job on the phone this morning that they want to see me. There was joking and back-and-forth with them, and the one guy is a musician, too. Worked at Disney for ten years. So that’s a good sign, right?
Yes, I know it’s 2:30 in the morning or thereabouts.
I was on a roll.
It’s now about a page and a half, skills-based with that objective sentence that I had there before.
Layout is as follows…
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Today, the Memorial Marauders lost their first softball game of the season to Team Everybody Else, 12-10, by way of being shafted by time constraints after-the-fact. The ump said he wasn’t going to pay attention to the time limit and just let us play 7 innings. We got out of the first inning by mercy rule, as they scored 8 runs on us. When we rallied to 12-10 by the end of the 6th Team Everybody Else said that the game went too long, and they wanted to leave, and the ump let them.
What a work. I didn’t know we were jobbing for them.
In more important news, I went 4 for 4 with 1 RBI (with 2 outs no less!). I rock.
