Never, and I mean never, have I gotten four calls off of four e-mails. But I did this week. It was amazing. I'm totally down with it. That's about all I have to say on that one. Perhaps Ishall no longer be working for people I don't exactly think are brilliant after a few more months. Awesome, and stuff.

Apparently, my Head First Java book is unacceptable when I open it on the desk in front of me and work over it all day. It's not that I read it all day, just that it's sitting there. And since I have a lot of time spent waiting for crappy software to respond, I end up spending a lot of time either idle or working on Java. I prefer the latter. I had the best job I've ever had when I was twenty, screwed it up by futzing around, and now all I want is to have another like it. I despise the corp

It's time for the raaacess.... off we go, folks, to glassblowing and MCSD C# classes and yoga and Calculus.... I've suddenly got something scheduled each of the seven days of the week, and my brain is on fry. Six or seven weeks since I started the job, and as soon as I had the money and was bored out of my skull I decided to fill time and life with so much stuff I can barely manage to keep my eyes open I'm so tired. Bad things, however, are on the rise. Ex who I left for Germany because of i

Hey, anyone else notice that banking is about as fascinating as watching paint dry? I have.

Sooo.... I have started playing huge amounts of Go online. Enormous. Like ten to twelve hours three or four days a week. Since I've been seeing an addiction counselor about my gaming problem, he's suddenly told me that I'm supposed to go cold turkey. Actually, he said that since I was bringing a gambling mentality into my games, there was no way I could use the 'reduction' approach he had wanted to apply. I don't really mind - I've been playing 20-60 hours a week since I was eight or so, I

Yeah, so, my dashing MS Access development credentials aren't getting me the step-up job I want. Rather, they're getting me interviews for the step-across, keep reporting, keep doing the same things forever type jobs. I'm not exactly happy with this, and learning C# to remedy the situation. However, if anyone knows of a job in the Portland area (or on the f*ing moon, if it's an interesting job that will pay my expenses, really) please do comment in my journal so I can e-mail you a resume.

Noooo job. On Friday. Did a resume, feel like I should post it here. Never put my name on the internet before from something like Slashdot, and CERTAINLY never when the name was virtually advertising my immaturity. Hrm. Well, whatever. Perhaps, once I do something phenomenal over the next few weeks (heh. Believe it or not, it's always possible) I'll post my resume. Or maybe I'll just throw the non-specific part of it up and see if anyone's interested enough to comment in here with an e-m

So, I'm losing my temp contract. They extended it to 9 months, and then said, "Hey, uhm.... Yeah, we really want someone who will work here forever. Can you do that for us? Thanks." I said no thank you and now I'm a bit.... what's the word. Uneasy about my current prospects for employment. I'm a VBA coder mainly at my current job but I've been learning Javascript at home for the last week in the hopes that I can build myself a really neat looking resume...

Does anyone know how to install source safe? I've put in a CERF to IT Ops, and they told me to go talk to Chris, over in Dev - he's on the Petware team. Last week, he got slightly less busy and e-mailed me back saying that I should just use the install script and install off of //dev-hda/apps/visual source safe/ but then I didn't have access. So then I screamed in agony over drowning in red tape, and my co-worker took pity on me. She filled out the CERF herself, and gave it

Welllllll..... Yeah. I'm the proud owner of two Python books, a yoga mat, and a dream now. The dream is of a job that doesn't suck. Where I can actually do something. Where they don't freeze the non-working data warehouse and tell me that I'm not trusted enough to run Business Objects Developer. Where they pay me more than absolute minimum for what I can do. Where the corporate politics don't include idiots empire building. Where 'more skills' means 'more skills' related to actual busines

So I'm now a professional VB, Access, and FoxPro coder again. Anyone got any hints on switching to C++, MySQL, PLSQL, and other Linux stuff? Anyone hiring noobs for this stuff in the Portland area? I'd love to get in on open source but don't know where to start. Beyond, "I can run Mandrake" but can't everyone do that?

ED: I'm learning python, because why the hell not.

Anyways. That's life - if you're dissatisfied with it, get in line.