mastodon 4.7.3Graphic art, video games, classic TV and movies. Reluctant techie. Introvert. Dog dad. He/They. San Francisco resident since the Clinton administration.
Job offer! 🎉
Time to start the background check process for the new job. Never raised any flags back in the day when something /might/ have come up, but there's always something in the back of my head that wonders...
I'm gonna need an updated profile picture for various apps when I start my new job. All the pics I'm finding in my roll are, shall we say, inappropriate.
This morning: Replaced the white toilet seat with a black one. Not my choice.
This afternoon: Putting the white one back again.
Autocorrupt just changed "got engaged" to "got shafted", which is quite a flip.
Happy Cinco de Mao
Lemme guess. He staged another assassination attempt because he's failing in Iran and we still haven't stopped talking about Epstein.
OH: I tricked once with one of Tallulah Bankhead's pallbearers.
Oh yay, nothing like having to complete a drug test to qualify for employment, with the appointment window at the most convenient location being /this/ close to the deadline to get it done.
So scrambling to find one that takes walk-ins or an appointment with enough leeway to make other arrangements if that falls though.
Also, and I can't even take a Xanax because drug test.
Reminder that the 10th Amendment doesn't automatically throw non-Federal issues to the states, it can also grant rights directly to the people.
Anyone who claims the 10th Amendment in the name of states' rights (abortion, marriage, voting) only wants the state to do the oppressing rather than the federal government.
I hope the company I have an interview with on Wednesday didn't notice I joined the meeting this morning after misreading the invite.
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So begins my first day of actual unemployment since [checks] January 2008. I'm spending the day catching up on transfer of health insurance benefits (thanks a bunch, US "health care system").
I told myself when I started this position that I wanted it to be my last tech job. I still mostly feel that way but I was hoping it would have lasted a bit longer.
"You should get out by yourself and make your own friends. Go to the bar or something."
The bar tonight:
7p-9p: RuPaul's Drag Race watch party
9p-2a: AshHole cigar night
Looks like I'm staying home.
Bidding on auctions I know I won't win brings back pleasant memories of being employed. Also, living on the edge.
Me, to myself, preparing for my first job interviews in 7+ years
Interview prep on a Sunday afternoon because I spent so much time last week crash-studying things I barely know instead of refreshing my memory of the things I do know.
Mark your calendars! You can buy rolls and bags of Steve Jobs dollar coins directly from the US Mint starting next Tuesday, for only ~$50 over face value!