Interview Day!!1
Interviews today. Wish me luck....
Thursday, April 06, 2006
A Two-day Vacation
Nothing like taking a two day vacation from the most widely read blog on teh intarweb. I'm sure my loyal readers were aghast at the lack of updates. Rumours must have swirled 'round the 'net - 'What happend to teh blog???/ OMG HAX!!11'
I needed the mental cleansing day of just....nothing. No homework, no 'work' work, nothing. Why, you ask? Let's check out the big scoreboard for the latest....
U of M: wants a 4-week extension. For those of you playing the home game, that's extension number 2 (two). The people that they hired for the new OCM Web team are a motley group: a graphic designer that looks like he spends more time grooming his soul patch, a back-end programmer that knows nothing of HTML/javascript/et. al, a very talented db/back-end developer whose struggles with the Engrish language are Herculean (and daily), and a cranky old man whose role has yet to be determined.
By the way, guess who sits right across from me? If you answered 'cranky old guy', give yourself a cookie. Hell, take two - they're small.
So - because the back-end programmer (who knows nothing of HTML or teh web languages) has to be "trained" on programming the system, and the current webmaster is leaving as of next Friday - I get to stick around a few more weeks. And train. My permanent replacement.
Heh.
On the external job front - things aren't much better. Or.....something. I have an interview of Friday at Digital River for a web developer position, and I'm currently waiting to hear about ShopNBC and Thomson West. All places I've applied - and interviewed at - in the past. And all places I've gotten the "we like you - just not enough to hire you." schpiel.
I also decided (with the help of my Sweet Wife) that the summer shall be school-free. I need a summer break, and with Hellspawn #3 on teh way, it will be nice to take some time and enjoy family, kids, baby, and some leisure time. Maybe I'll even get off my ass and get some more dev. done on teh MysteryCheese site!
Nothing like taking a two day vacation from the most widely read blog on teh intarweb. I'm sure my loyal readers were aghast at the lack of updates. Rumours must have swirled 'round the 'net - 'What happend to teh blog???/ OMG HAX!!11'
I needed the mental cleansing day of just....nothing. No homework, no 'work' work, nothing. Why, you ask? Let's check out the big scoreboard for the latest....
U of M: wants a 4-week extension. For those of you playing the home game, that's extension number 2 (two). The people that they hired for the new OCM Web team are a motley group: a graphic designer that looks like he spends more time grooming his soul patch, a back-end programmer that knows nothing of HTML/javascript/et. al, a very talented db/back-end developer whose struggles with the Engrish language are Herculean (and daily), and a cranky old man whose role has yet to be determined.
By the way, guess who sits right across from me? If you answered 'cranky old guy', give yourself a cookie. Hell, take two - they're small.
So - because the back-end programmer (who knows nothing of HTML or teh web languages) has to be "trained" on programming the system, and the current webmaster is leaving as of next Friday - I get to stick around a few more weeks. And train. My permanent replacement.
Heh.
On the external job front - things aren't much better. Or.....something. I have an interview of Friday at Digital River for a web developer position, and I'm currently waiting to hear about ShopNBC and Thomson West. All places I've applied - and interviewed at - in the past. And all places I've gotten the "we like you - just not enough to hire you." schpiel.
I also decided (with the help of my Sweet Wife) that the summer shall be school-free. I need a summer break, and with Hellspawn #3 on teh way, it will be nice to take some time and enjoy family, kids, baby, and some leisure time. Maybe I'll even get off my ass and get some more dev. done on teh MysteryCheese site!
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