Month: April 2008

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Daily posting-4/9/2008

12:38 am-At the dinner table, computing. I misplaced a letter to Quest and tore the house up trying to find it. Finally I gave up and left a message for the HR chick to redo the stuff for me to sign. I rarely misplace things…I guess it’s the chaos of losing my job and getting ready to move.

OK. So Monday was pretty quiet, hanging out with the kids, Erika picked up her mom, dinner. So up on Tuesday, we’re going to Legoland, but slept in a bit. And…I got the job in Portland! Emailed the guy back, starting April 30th. Breakfast at Polly’s, drive to Legoland, walking around, rides, taking pictures, lunch, waiting in line. Drive home, drive Bonnie home, drive back. Up today, I had a phone screen at 10 am Central-I thought it was for Pacific, so I was asleep when the call came. No matter, I did pretty well. Email, hang out, send a big file.

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2008/4/9

On a field, they’re practicing football. Walk around, I catch a few of the footballs.
In someone’s house, at the bar, there’s old college friends, one’s wearing a mask. He takes it off. Trying to refill some ink things? They’re spilling. Pour a beer and it’s foamy. Next morning and I take a beer and start drinking.
Go down to the studio area, it hasn’t been used lately. Clear off some of the old labels-someone else walks around.

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Daily posting-4/7/2008

10:06 am-At the dining room table, answering email. Fairly quiet weekend. Lazy Saturday-we went over to a local park and threw boomerangs around. No church Sunday-I took a second pass through my boxes and got rid of a bunch more stuff-I’m down to 9 boxes from 12-more like 18 total. One more pass should do it. I also went through all my pending filing and tossed the majority of it. All I kept were insurance policies, tax returns, rental agreements, etc. Now I have to get rid of it securely. I think I lost my passport-rrrrr. Up today-kids are home this week.

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2008/4/5

At US, In the office-it’s crowded-I try to rearrange the pens. Go downstairs, they’ve covered over Monkey Island and changed the colors. Go past the gym and out to the parking lot.

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Daily posting-4/4/2008

10:31 pm-End of week-busy. Weds-kids to school, home, phone interview with DC job, offered it to me 5 mins after the interview was over, with a decision due by 9am. What’s up with that? I talked about it with Erika and a guy from church-we all figured it was a bad idea-too many unknowns and bad juju in the air. Declined, maybeoffsite/offhours? Thurs., kids to school, Erika to MOPS, took Matt to a field trip in the canyon. Pick up Colin, hang out. Today, interview in Altadena, so I picked up Matt early and drove out to the parents-lunch, interview went well, Matt swam. Tough drive home-an accident and a police funeral procession. Matt & Colin over at neighbors’ playing vid games, diddled around with a guitar, to bed, Erika’s at a meeting and had another one this afternoon. Looked at Portland, dreaming of things. I gave the hard line to the Quest guy and haven’t heard back.

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Daily posting-4/1/2008

10:04 am-Sitting at the dinner table, computing. This will probably be my location until I get a job…I have a phone interview at 2 with Hollywood Video in Portland, Oregon. Still looking. I applied to a bunch more jobs last night-including the one at ADP…again. Hmmmmm-Quest did that with the one in NC. No matter. Back to it. Delivered Mathias to school, got my mini aquarium from work, met Rony on the way out. Home, coffee, work.

9:02 pm-In bed, computing, watching “Jail”, baby in lap-she’s squirmy. Not much-interview went well. Looks like I might be at Quest in Toronto also. We’ll see.

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2008/4/1

Talk to a guy about doing website design, sit at a counter and I fart loudly.
Walk through a school that looks like it’s in Long Beach. I comment on this. Out to Alamitos, up to a fenced in area-going to a football game? My mom is there and she’s had a lot to drink-the bottles are there.