Ron just called me a little while ago, and told me something very interesting. "God must love you, or he is certainly smiling down on you right now." Other than telling me that Steve Chand is going to convey something that was suggested by Don to Ron, and was henceforth presented to Randy (Regional Manager) and approved, and was the exact thing that was needed at the time, I have no idea what's going on. Only that I'm not fired. Guaranteed that.
I'll find out either tomorrow or some other time this week.
But at least I can stop worrying, and so can Caitlin.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
I'm not dead! I feel happy!
You would think that I’ve fallen off the face of the earth or something with the dearth that has been the lack of postings. I am alive and well, and have been so since the last posting. However, since I am on dialup now, I have to choose my computer activities carefully, and for often than not, blogging wasn’t one of them. I liked to post pictures of the little munchkin, and videos too, but with the bandwidth that I have available to me at home, it’s not in the agenda. On Sunday, I downloaded an E-book from Yanceyware and I shut down every other application that connected to the internet. It still took about 15 minutes for the 1.5 Mb file to download. Dialup does have an upside though. I discovered that the special at Source by Circuit City, in which you receive a $400 discount towards the purchase of a new computer, is available to new High Speed Internet customers. In order to qualify, you need to be without High Speed for at least six months. We’ve been without High Speed now for five and a half months. Caitlin has been pestering me to get a laptop, and I’ve been thinking that would be a good thing to have as well to help with writing. But that’s later.
The big things that have been taking up my time the past little while were a) NaNoWriMo; b) Christmas – shopping, celebrating, and the workload; and c) Rini. That little girl has not started walking yet, but she is crawling with a vengeance, and she’s standing up, and pulling herself up. She’s even started with a side step, but she’s still got the twinkle toes going on.
I also had a job interview on Tuesday, and I think it went quite well. I still need to send off my transcripts and my response to whether I would be interested in casual work if they don’t have a full time position available. I’m thinking that casual work would be a plus, because that would give me the experience that I would need to get in the door, and into the market.
In the interview, one of the questions I was asked, was where I saw myself in five to ten years. I had an idea, but I was unclear on whether it was a business project, or whether it was a personal project. Grandpa Clark built a wonderful home, that is very, very energy efficient. It was kind of ahead of the time, but it is still a great place (except the carpenter ants, but that’s details). I was thinking that I could improve upon it by making it self-sufficient for electricity. Solar panels would be one thing, but it could also use wind power. There would have to be a storage device of some sort for the off time, a kind of battery pack. At the end of the interview, the interviewer asked on of the tech guys if there was a question that he had for me. “Did I have any drafting experience?” was the question. Sadly, I could not answer yes, but the interviewer then said that it would be a good idea to get some kind of experience, especially if I wanted to build a house.
I’m also going to be transferring over to Millwoods. They have a bit of a staffing shortage, including the Assistant Manager who was just recently let go. It’s funny. I like the Southgate store, because it is very efficient, busy, and bigger. The mall I’m not as big a fan. Then we have Millwoods Town Center. The store is much smaller, not as many tills, and not as much stock available. I love the mall though. It seems I can’t have both. Oh, wait. I did for awhile. Londonderry was a very nice place, but I left after it went Joint Venture and they were going to cut out the health benefits. Worked out for the better anyway, because I don’t think I would have got the experience at Southgate had I decided to stay there, and I might not have been able to get Mike Berube his job there.
I’m going to be starting on Sunday, and that reminded me of something else that I liked about Southgate. Ron would allow for me to go to church on Sunday. Millwoods, I might not get that. I may hate myself for transferring.
But if I can scrounge together $300,000 I could buy out the Beaumont dealer store and relocate there! I think I would have better luck buying a house than a business, and that should be the primary investment on the plane at the moment.
Rini is crawling all over me right now, so it’s time to post and make sure she doesn’t destroy the house!
The big things that have been taking up my time the past little while were a) NaNoWriMo; b) Christmas – shopping, celebrating, and the workload; and c) Rini. That little girl has not started walking yet, but she is crawling with a vengeance, and she’s standing up, and pulling herself up. She’s even started with a side step, but she’s still got the twinkle toes going on.
I also had a job interview on Tuesday, and I think it went quite well. I still need to send off my transcripts and my response to whether I would be interested in casual work if they don’t have a full time position available. I’m thinking that casual work would be a plus, because that would give me the experience that I would need to get in the door, and into the market.
In the interview, one of the questions I was asked, was where I saw myself in five to ten years. I had an idea, but I was unclear on whether it was a business project, or whether it was a personal project. Grandpa Clark built a wonderful home, that is very, very energy efficient. It was kind of ahead of the time, but it is still a great place (except the carpenter ants, but that’s details). I was thinking that I could improve upon it by making it self-sufficient for electricity. Solar panels would be one thing, but it could also use wind power. There would have to be a storage device of some sort for the off time, a kind of battery pack. At the end of the interview, the interviewer asked on of the tech guys if there was a question that he had for me. “Did I have any drafting experience?” was the question. Sadly, I could not answer yes, but the interviewer then said that it would be a good idea to get some kind of experience, especially if I wanted to build a house.
I’m also going to be transferring over to Millwoods. They have a bit of a staffing shortage, including the Assistant Manager who was just recently let go. It’s funny. I like the Southgate store, because it is very efficient, busy, and bigger. The mall I’m not as big a fan. Then we have Millwoods Town Center. The store is much smaller, not as many tills, and not as much stock available. I love the mall though. It seems I can’t have both. Oh, wait. I did for awhile. Londonderry was a very nice place, but I left after it went Joint Venture and they were going to cut out the health benefits. Worked out for the better anyway, because I don’t think I would have got the experience at Southgate had I decided to stay there, and I might not have been able to get Mike Berube his job there.
I’m going to be starting on Sunday, and that reminded me of something else that I liked about Southgate. Ron would allow for me to go to church on Sunday. Millwoods, I might not get that. I may hate myself for transferring.
But if I can scrounge together $300,000 I could buy out the Beaumont dealer store and relocate there! I think I would have better luck buying a house than a business, and that should be the primary investment on the plane at the moment.
Rini is crawling all over me right now, so it’s time to post and make sure she doesn’t destroy the house!
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Limping online
Man I miss our high speed! I'm mean, dialup is great because I can do a blog entry while I wait for a page to load. I thought that we had ADSL, but we had a bit of a misunderstanding, in which we had a connection, but no account. This is because the account was cancelled, and therefore the account was not transferred. At least we still have the same phone number or I would be eXtremely ticked.
Rini is now up to date on her 4.5 months shots. However, she got them this week. Two weeks after she turned 6 months old. Yeah. No trouble though. We just need to take her in for her six month shots in November, and she'll be eight months old by then. Oie. I'm a responsible parent! Really!
In terms of providing for the family, I had another interview/assessment, this time for Dell. And much like all the last responses I've had, I was turned down. The instant I read that, I went and talked with Ron, who had offered me a position as Assistant Manager at his store, and told him that I was on board for the job. There is some training, lessons, online modules, and heck there's even an essay to write! Should be fun.
I would post some picture of the trailer load of cardboard that I took to get recycled, but since we're on dial up, I'm not up for sitting in front of the computer for hours on end to get it to load. Once we get high speed back up, I'll post a couple photos albums on Facebook. Love that bike trailer!
Rini is now up to date on her 4.5 months shots. However, she got them this week. Two weeks after she turned 6 months old. Yeah. No trouble though. We just need to take her in for her six month shots in November, and she'll be eight months old by then. Oie. I'm a responsible parent! Really!
In terms of providing for the family, I had another interview/assessment, this time for Dell. And much like all the last responses I've had, I was turned down. The instant I read that, I went and talked with Ron, who had offered me a position as Assistant Manager at his store, and told him that I was on board for the job. There is some training, lessons, online modules, and heck there's even an essay to write! Should be fun.
I would post some picture of the trailer load of cardboard that I took to get recycled, but since we're on dial up, I'm not up for sitting in front of the computer for hours on end to get it to load. Once we get high speed back up, I'll post a couple photos albums on Facebook. Love that bike trailer!
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Well deserved vacation
I have to tell you, taking some time off and heading off to the mountains had to tbe one of the greatest ideas yet! It's been three years since I was able to stay in Banff for a whole week, and it's been absolutely wonderful. The best part is that I had some vacation days saved up from work, so I'm litterally being paid to be here! HEE HEE!
I haven't tackled any mountains, and I'm doubtful that I will. First off, I don't have my bike, so no singletrack stuff. Second, I have a six-month old daughter, and she hasn't learned to walk, let alone crawl. However, she has been swimming with mommy and daddy pretty much every day! She's also doing her darnest to sit up. She's really strong in the neck, we just need to work on the abs. Then she'll be up and about, and running, and getting into stuff... Hmmm... Maybe I should enjoy the time that we have right now when she's still learning. I would think.
I'm using the public library computer right now, so I can't post any pictures. I'll do that once I get back. I got some nice shots of the mountains from our room's balcony. It's so nice to be away from the city and not have to worry about getting up on time or getting to work. Hmmm... I'll probably be pretty bored in a bit. And then we'll go home, and if luck has it be, we'll visit Jess, Chris, Ben and the new Orr! I'm still waiting for that email though.
I haven't tackled any mountains, and I'm doubtful that I will. First off, I don't have my bike, so no singletrack stuff. Second, I have a six-month old daughter, and she hasn't learned to walk, let alone crawl. However, she has been swimming with mommy and daddy pretty much every day! She's also doing her darnest to sit up. She's really strong in the neck, we just need to work on the abs. Then she'll be up and about, and running, and getting into stuff... Hmmm... Maybe I should enjoy the time that we have right now when she's still learning. I would think.
I'm using the public library computer right now, so I can't post any pictures. I'll do that once I get back. I got some nice shots of the mountains from our room's balcony. It's so nice to be away from the city and not have to worry about getting up on time or getting to work. Hmmm... I'll probably be pretty bored in a bit. And then we'll go home, and if luck has it be, we'll visit Jess, Chris, Ben and the new Orr! I'm still waiting for that email though.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Awk
Funny that's how I felt coming out of my interview a few minutes ago, and it was also the name of the programming language that I was working with, PLUS it was apt that I used that language since I could get my script to work! Though the bird's name is spelt with a "u" not a "w". I did my best, and if that's not the best, well... Suffice it to say, the reason they do the testing with that language is so they can see how well the candidate responds to a new environment, since they have yet to have a candidate familiar with the language!
It was a challenge, but I felt I was close to getting something together, if only I had a bit more time to figure out the workings of the language. An hour isn't very long, and it gets shorter if you panic. I was doing my best not to go crazy, especially once I crashed the command prompt, then couldn't remember how to change directories in the prompt to get to the folder that had the runtime command for awk scripts! Yeah. That was fun.
I need to get going if I want to get a new seat post bolt for my bike. Some... twat stole the bolt for my seat post, and unless I get a new one, I can't ride my bike very comfortably or very far. I've had this happen before, and I've even had the entire seat stolen. Riding without a seat bolt is odd, without a seat is a trial! Funny how something so small is so important to the operation of something greater.
Kinda like Rini! :) Only no one stole her, and we didn't forget her in the apartment when I locked the key inside yesterday. Hmmm... still need to drop off those mail keys at the old apartment, and we finally found them today.
It was a challenge, but I felt I was close to getting something together, if only I had a bit more time to figure out the workings of the language. An hour isn't very long, and it gets shorter if you panic. I was doing my best not to go crazy, especially once I crashed the command prompt, then couldn't remember how to change directories in the prompt to get to the folder that had the runtime command for awk scripts! Yeah. That was fun.
I need to get going if I want to get a new seat post bolt for my bike. Some... twat stole the bolt for my seat post, and unless I get a new one, I can't ride my bike very comfortably or very far. I've had this happen before, and I've even had the entire seat stolen. Riding without a seat bolt is odd, without a seat is a trial! Funny how something so small is so important to the operation of something greater.
Kinda like Rini! :) Only no one stole her, and we didn't forget her in the apartment when I locked the key inside yesterday. Hmmm... still need to drop off those mail keys at the old apartment, and we finally found them today.
Getting settled
We still have a mountain of boxes to work through, but things are on the up and up for Rini. She's starting to support herself sitting up now, but I still have to hold onto her legs if she's sitting on my knee. Notwithstanding, she can support herself if I hold her by the hips. I'll take small victories where I can find them, like sleeping through the night.
Recently, I got the flu, then Caitlin got it. I don't know if Rini caught it (as I didn't throw it, and I've tried not to cough directly at her), but she had a bit of trouble settling last week. There were two nights in a row (3 and 4 August 2007) that we had to give her some infants Tylenol in order to help her sleep. We thought that she was coming down with the same thing we have, and she might have. But she seems okay now, and she doesn't fuss much when we set her down.
The other explaination is that she's going through a growth spurt, and it's going to hurt no matter what we do, or she does. Oh boy.
Recently, I got the flu, then Caitlin got it. I don't know if Rini caught it (as I didn't throw it, and I've tried not to cough directly at her), but she had a bit of trouble settling last week. There were two nights in a row (3 and 4 August 2007) that we had to give her some infants Tylenol in order to help her sleep. We thought that she was coming down with the same thing we have, and she might have. But she seems okay now, and she doesn't fuss much when we set her down.
The other explaination is that she's going through a growth spurt, and it's going to hurt no matter what we do, or she does. Oh boy.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Moving House
Our current place was great because it was close to downtown, reasonable rent, and it was close to the LRT which made it great for getting to U of A. But now we're moving to Millwoods, and some say that's a push in the wrong direction, but I would disagree. This building has seriously gone awry, and Caitlin has been badgering me for quite some time to move. The biggest thing keeping us here was the fact that it was convient to get to campus. Now, I'm done school. Not much reason to stay here anymore.
Especially since I heard about the stoned hookers sleeping in the stairwells, and people climbing the balconies to get into our neighbours place, and... it's time to move. This place is no longer the family-friendly building that we once thought. Sure it was great because we were able to have room for Rini, and possibly another child, and that was another thing we were waiting for. We'll take things a step at a time.
I've discovered that our new ward, Knottwood, has some familiar faces, namely a friend that I knew back when I was living in St. Albert. Caitlin also has a friend from her Woodvale days in the new ward. We're also going to be switching stakes, so that's going to be fun. Of course in Utah, if you moved more than five blocks away, you'd be moving out of the stake.
Is a basement suite the answer for our family? I hope so. Mind you, when I find the right job, the housing market might be in a crash cycle, and getting a house will be simple.
Then again, that housing storm might be like the rain we had today. It was bad for a few minutes, and then it was fine.
BIG MOVE TOMORROW!
Especially since I heard about the stoned hookers sleeping in the stairwells, and people climbing the balconies to get into our neighbours place, and... it's time to move. This place is no longer the family-friendly building that we once thought. Sure it was great because we were able to have room for Rini, and possibly another child, and that was another thing we were waiting for. We'll take things a step at a time.
I've discovered that our new ward, Knottwood, has some familiar faces, namely a friend that I knew back when I was living in St. Albert. Caitlin also has a friend from her Woodvale days in the new ward. We're also going to be switching stakes, so that's going to be fun. Of course in Utah, if you moved more than five blocks away, you'd be moving out of the stake.
Is a basement suite the answer for our family? I hope so. Mind you, when I find the right job, the housing market might be in a crash cycle, and getting a house will be simple.
Then again, that housing storm might be like the rain we had today. It was bad for a few minutes, and then it was fine.
BIG MOVE TOMORROW!
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