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So... I have a job interview tomorrow.  I sent a resume on Thursday of last week just on the off chance... well Friday (good Friday btw) I got an email back asking for me to send the attachment again as it had been corrupted in transit from CareerBuilder.  So I sent it directly, and pasted the text into the resume directly just to be safe.  I followed up with an Email on Tuesday asking her to verify that she got the Resume ok the second time, and thanking her for taking the time to look it over etc... Wednesday (today) I got a response from her that yes, she'd gotten it fine and planned to call for an interview today, but that if I got the email first, I could call her. Well, I did put the number in my phone, but I got called out before I could call her, and I didn't want to call her while I was driving.  So I waited. She called me in the early afternoon.. I just *happened* to be inside a Walgreen's because I had stopped to buy something to drink.  So... tomorrow I have a job interview.

Addendum: I like my current job.  I like it a lot.  But The income is simply not reliable enough, and the weeks it is bad it is SO bad that it offsets the good weeks too sorely for me to feel confident in making my bills each month.  I can't have that.  I have got to have a steady income and I have made that abundantly clear to my current employer.  I intend to stay on there part time for a while and hopefully the result along with my settlement (which I can file now in just a few days) will put me back on the path to financial recovery.  Selling the house will go a ways toward that as well.  Once I get out from under this house I can start seriously looking at houses in East Dayton.  One of the ones Karen sent me today was really of interest to me.  It's in an area I've lived in before.  A nice looking big house that even looks to have a full attic (which is something I want) for 27,900 That's less than half what I paid for this house btw... and the house is much bigger, two stories and I'd be willing to bet the rooms are much bigger too. 

Anyway.. the point is that I have a job interview and everyone needs to wish me luck and light green candles and that sort of thing.  I have had SO much bad crap happen to me that I can't see how any more bad crap CAN possibly be aimed at me... so I think it's time I got a few shots from the GOOD cannon... which means I'm going to get this job, an they're going to be HAPPY to pay my required salary so that I can have a job with a future. where I can be proud to work and where I make enough money to where I can maybe get ahead a little.  If Doc had ever paid me what he had promised me, then I would have been more willing to put up with the theft and the abuse and that hazing.. though those were all valid reasons to leave a job.  (i.e. being threatened physically by a co-worker is never acceptable even if I knew that she was no threat to me, it's still not acceptable.  Having the employer take NO action even when there were plenty of witnesses to the occurrence who agreed that it was uncalled for is also unacceptable.  SO.... I have a job interview tomorrow.

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Incidentally... I'm especially excited at the prospect of this job because they are an automation company.  i.e. they are a distributer of parts for robots... a field I have long been interested in.  In fact when I got out of high school, it was my intent to become a Roboticist but I wasn't ready for college yet... when I did go, I wasn't sure what programs to take... my school didn't offer robotics... I should have gone to ITT instead... but if you knew the story of how I finally got started in college hahaha... Well, I took my friend down there to the college so she could enroll in her next quarter classes, and ended up enrolling myself.  I stayed all the way till graduation.  My friend dropped out.  In her defense though, we learned that our degrees were going to be virtually worthless... I just stuck it out to the end because I was by God so close that I was going to stubborn my way through to the end.  If I get this job, maybe it will renew my interest (which I have never entirely lost... Characters like Michael Y'Mani and Aerik demonstrate this.) at any rate, I want to go back to school.  If I get this job, it will open up my schedule eventually, so that I can.  I will NOT be starting winter quarter though.  That was a big mistake when it came to starting at a new school.  I should have just taken winter quarter of and started in spring.  I might have stuck with it if I'd done that. 

Note: I dropped out of Wright State after my first day of classes.  I was extremely insulted by the fact that no only were they starting me out as a Freshman when I had a dual associate's degree and thus should have started as a Junior... but also by the fact that even though I tested "the highest I've ever seen" according to the test coordinator at the University) in English I was not permitted to test out of Freshman English, even though I'd taken both Freshman and Sophomore English at College.  I was also irritated by the fact that no one bothered to tell me WHERE to park on the first day, and the university police put a ticket on my car while I was in class.  I was not informed that I would need to BUY a parking permit at any time.  My Algebra class was cool... but I was irked by the Psychology 101 class as it was practically an amphitheater.  I could not hear the professor hardly at all, but I could hear the students on the end of the aisle talking about how drunk they had gotten the night before.  I don't particularly agree with the idea of teaching a class so large that you have to put them in a theater.  Seems to me that if that is the case, the class teaches itself... they may as well just buy a lecture tape because they will certainly not have the opportunity to ask questions... and one should not have to make an appointment with your professor just to introduce yourself!  anyway... So I have a job interview in the morning... in a little bit I'll take these here rollers out of my hair and hope my hair doesn't end up looking too stringy... I decided that I'd better go ride my bike today rather than going to get my hair cut. (actually I was going to get my trim AFTER biking, but got a late start and ended up too late to go.  It'll be ok though.  It's not a mess yet.

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You scored as Libertarian. Libertarians believe that you have the right to live your life as you wish, without the government interfering, as long as you don't violate the rights of others. This translates into strong protections for privacy and property rights, and a weak to non-existent social safety net. </td> Pro Business Republican 100% Libertarian 100% Foreign Policy Hawk 85% New Democrat 40% Green 30% Old School Democrat 30% Socially Conservative Republican 20% What's Your Political Philosophy? created with QuizFarm.com

Hmm... I guess this is true.  I have long said I was a Libertarian... I even vote libertarian when I can and when the candidate is acceptable.  I'm DEFINITELY not in line with the "NEW democrats" because they are F'ing nuts.  I would have considered myself more in line with old school democrats, but because I don't think the federal government should be responsible for a) health care of our nation (and the mess it's in now is BECAUSE of the federal government screwing with the system) or b) providing the safety net for people who don't have jobs... (especially since so many of the people on welfare are NOT people who have had a setback, or lost a job... but people who won't GET a job, don't WANT a job, don't even know what it means to have a job because no one in their family has ever had one.)  When it comes down to it I AM Pro Business, because I'm pro Capitalism... if I were anti business, then I'd be anti anybody having a job anywhere since businesses are where we work, and how we make money.  I don't think that should rank me as so much republican leaning as it makes me fiscally conservative.  You'll note though that on the other hand I scored the very lowest on the socially conservative Republican. hahahha...  Given the current activities of both major parties though, I really don't care to see anything try to associate me with either.  They both suck.. it's time for a change... So start voting Libertarian and support the fair tax.

OMG!!

Hahaha! I just realised that I went to a job interview on 420! hahaha... I took off WORK to go to a JOB interview on 420... Now my dispatcher probably thinks that my 'appointment' was with a big doobie! hahahaha...

Gas Prices...

I remember when this photoshopped sign was funny...

What's NOT funny is that Gas is currently more than a dollar higher than what was considered too high when this picture was first photoshopped.  What's NOT funny is that people keep blaming the oil companies like Exxon/Mobil for this and forget that OPEC is a virtual monopoly, and as a monopoly they decided that production would NOT be increased to meet demand, but that instead the price would be raised per barrel since it was IN demand.

Normally what happens is when prices go up, demand goes down, and companies are forced to lower prices to get people to buy.  Since everyone has to have fuel to get to work etc, there is no drop in demand. We HAVE to buy it.  We HAVE no choice (in many cases.)  Here in Fairborn we HAVE no mass transit, and people like me who drive for a living also HAVE no choices.  It's not like Eggs where we can just say. the price is too high... I'm not going to eat eggs any more until the price comes down.  In all honesty Personal use vehicles are really only a tiny drop in the bucket of demand for fuel.  My self.. If I get enough on my settlement (the claim for which can be filed in DAYS now thank goodness)  Part of that money is going to go for a Greenspeed Trike, and when I'm not working and the weather is willing, that will be my personal mode of transportation.  They can go 35 mph.  Once I sell this house and get one closer to town, I might even be able to ride it to work.  I remember being mad when gas went over $2 a gallon.  Now I'm livid... and even more that so much was done in the 80's to BLOCK the production of Ethanol and Ethanol consuming vehicles... So much propaganda to make people believe that Ethanol wasn't as efficient a fuel, that ethanol burning vehicles ran hotter and didn't last as long.  I swear I WISH my car actually WAS a rice burner.  Unfortunately, my car may have a Japanese maker's name, but Mitsubishi is not a Japanese car.  It's a Dodge... its exactly the same car as the Eagle Talon.  I can't wait to get my settlement and get rid of it.