Archive for October, 2005
10/1/2005
Today I went to the Wal-Mart SuperCenter for some supplies. I got a microwave, a cheap pot/pan set, some pasta, butter, milk, paper towels, a bathmat and some other stuff. This evening I had my first hot meal which was Price Penne pasta with Ragu Old World Style sauce. It was really good and I have leftovers in the fridge for later. Believe it or not it’s nice having leftovers.
I realized something today. Cooking is a lot cheaper than getting fast food. A Subway foot-long turkey sub costs about $5.50 alone, meaning no chips or drink. My box of pasta was seventy-eight cents, the sauce was a little under two bucks. The sub can give me two small meals. The box of pasta can give me three medium sized meals. It’s one of those eye-opener things when you realize how much fast food costs and how little you get from it.
At the SuperCenter there were two little yard apes accompanied by parents watching close by.
“Excuse me, sir, would you like to give to the [insert youth sport name here] fund?”
“No.”
Parents can be heard grumbling as I walk in the door.
“Asshole…”
They didn’t say it, but that’s what they were thinking.
Yep. Gotta love that.
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10/2/2005
Got my first taste of landlord living today. Last night it was cold out so I turned up the thermostat. This morning it warmed up really quick so it was blazin’ hot in here, so I turned it back down. The landlord came over and yapped at me a bit for wasting heat.
I seem to recall “Heat and Hot Water included” in the ad I read for this place. Even so, I got a spoken to about it.
Whatever.
I’ll run my apartment at 90 degrees year ’round if I feel like it. ;-)
Seriously speaking, I was just learning the thermostat. Every house is different. This one seems to work a little too good most of the time. Setting it at sixty-five actually rounds the temperature out to seventy-two degrees. It’s weird, I know. But I’ll get used to it.
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10/2/2005
Today is about as good as you can get weather-wise. I decided to go out picture taking. I walked to all the places you’ll see here - they are that close to where I live.
This building gives you field effect if you stare at it.
Big ass clock with big ass thermometer underneath.
Side street in Bangor. The scene looked like it was right out of a movie so I snapped a shot.
Bangor Waterfront entrance.
A lone boat.
Bangor Waterfront has some really nice brickwork. It’s very well done.
The path less traveled? ;-)
For those too young to remember, this sign used to mean “Ok Used Cars”. It hasn’t been used in years, but there’s some like this still in Maine.
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10/3/2005
At 2pm today I will be heading to a recruiter office (as in job recruiter) to see what they got for me. This is exactly what will happen: I will go in there and then I will be told to fill out about seven or more pages of paperwork. Then I will probably be given a test of some kind to assess my qualifications. Then I will have a nice chat with the girl there asking me what I want to do. After that, I will most likely be 10,000% overqualified for anything they have to offer. Then I’ll be told “Okay, we’ll be in touch!” and I’ll never see them again. I could be wrong, but I’ve been in and out of enough recruitment offices, so you could say I’m quite “seasoned” at it.
Sometimes I wish the people at these places would just…
READ
THE
FUCKING
RESUME.
Evidently this is beyond most people’s grasp. If any staffing/recruitment office even bothered to read it, they would never make me take their little tests - guaranteed. Such is life.
I’m going to this place today with an open mind and just hope for the best - but I’m not expecting anything.
Tomorrow I will have an interview - an actual interview - at a place where I’ll most likely land a job. It took them only one day to call me back, so I’m guessing they actually did read me resume and are interested in seeing what I can do. I’m much more optimistic about tomorrow.
I headed to Google maps to see how long it would take to get to the place I’m going to today. It’s a grand distance of… wait for it… 3.1 miles. For real. It’ll take me literally five minutes to get there. The place where I’m interviewing tomorrow is about fifteen minutes away (9.3 miles).
Speaking of distances… oddly enough, my friends are almost an hour and a half away from me here in Maine. Why oddly enough? Because when I was living in Connecticut, friends were all real close and werk was really far away. Now it’s the exact opposite.
Given the choice between traveling far for friends or werk, I’d choose friends first any day. Long commutes to werk just plain suck. Trust me, I know from experience.
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10/3/2005
System of a Down: Hate Mail from Something Awful.
I loved every single word of this. What David says is true, “..nothing can bring in hate mail like pretentious hard rock.” I agree. If there’s one breed of people who are vehemently defensive about what they listen to when someone pokes fun at it, it’s rock and metal fans.
Check it out and read up. Get a good laugh. Make sure to read the part of that article from a guy named “Yannick”. Certain people I know will get an extra good laugh from that one.
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One more thing sorta/kinda related: In my apartment I play classical music all day, every day. My file server computer is set to an internet radio station that plays really good classical at a soft level (I don’t blare it).
My apartment has three windows in it. Two facing the road, one facing a building. It was a nice day so I had all of them open. Someone in the building next to mine started playing some of that awful “core” metal music. Even though it wasn’t that loud it cut right through my classical. Shutting the window fortunately drowned it right out.
After I did that, I thought to myself…
Am I getting old?
Nah. That core music just sucks.
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10/4/2005
I finished my interview a little while ago. How did it go? I’m not certain. I think it went okay… I can never tell how an interviewer sees me (that’s always bugged the bejeezus out of me). Logic would dictate that I will get this job because the company I applied to is hiring like crazy right now. They have ads in the paper, online and a humongous NOW HIRING sign on the side of their building.
Even with a reasonable assurance I’ll get the job, I’m still looking for werk regardless. In my experience something labeled as a “sure thing” usually isn’t. That’s not being pessimistic. That’s being realistic.
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10/4/2005
So yeah, I changed the way my site looked. Again. Why? Because I’m going nuts wondering if I’m going to get the job I interviewed for so I had to find something to do. Change around the template? Sounds like a good idea; it will kill a few hours. Which it did. I’ll probably do some other tweaks and so on whilst I’m at it.
Then I’ll probably write something else here. ;-)
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10/4/2005
I’ve been talking with Pop just about every night. I call to see how he’s doing and so on. When we were discussing the house sale thing, I told him to drop the price. So he did.
Today a couple visits the house and guess what, they might go for it, as in buy the place. How cool is that. Once again fortune may be smiling, but this time it’ll be for real. The potential buyers seem to have it together a lot better compared to the previous asshole.
I’m wishing the best for Pop. He wished the best for my job situation. Hopefully before the end of the week there will be great news all around for both myself and Pop.
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10/5/2005
When I dropped off my resume at the place I interviewed at the first time, it only took them a day to call me back even though they said “We’ll contact you in a few days.” Yesterday I went on the interview and was told the same “in a few days” line at the end of it by the interviewer. I’m wondering if they’ll call today. I hope they do. I really do. This waiting shit is making my mind go in circles.
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10/5/2005
Earlier today I was really stressed out so I just went to bed. I slept until 3:30pm. It felt great.
That feeling was short lived.
It’s 4pm and there was nothing on my voicemail. If the place I applied at was going to call they would’ve called by now. Bummer.
Sigh.
Moping around the house being depressed is not the best way to spend your time last I knew, so I’ll be heading out shortly asking for applications at local department stores. It may not be glamorous, but hey, I gotta pay the bills. I gotta do something.
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