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The Job Thing

Read the title, that explains it.

So, the job thing I said I would explain more.

I applied as a baggage handler for NorthWest Airlines at MBS. That was Wednesday morning. By Wednesday afternoon, I received a reply that I was chosen to be interviewed. Is the interview at MBS? No, it’s at their headquarters, in Minneapolis. Thursday morning I replied that I am willing to go, and that afternoon they say “OK, what day”? So another pair of emails later, I am booked on a flight to Minneapolis tomorrow morning at 7:45 and will be back here by 7:30 tomorrow night. Needless to say, I am nervous as hell.

Anyway, I have a few more things to do, it’s 11:10, and need to be up around 5 or so, so I need to get a move on and try sleeping soon.

Wish me luck

nick

Yeay!

Poll, Bike, Job, Tired, and Job.

I know, I know. I need a new poll. Too bad.

I rode my bike today. 24.26 miles. From Jenn’s, home, to see my dad, to Staples, then Jenn’s, then home. Fun, fun.

I have a job interview Tuesday, wish me luck, please.

I very hot and tired, just got home maybe an hour ago.

Change and Dreams

Just an off the wall rant.

I need to do something, I need something to change. I have all these dreams of things and I never do anything to bring them true. I once heard that dreams can’t come true, because then they would no longer be a dream, so maybe I should take the hint, or maybe I should stop calling them dreams and start calling them goals. That could be a good first step.

Anyway though, I want to ride my bike more, and swim better, and jog more, and maybe enter a bike race or triathlon, but I never do. I want to move out, and get a cool car, but I don’t even have a job to pay for what I have now. I want to read more, and be able to say I have read all the classics, and talk of great philosophers, and have a grand library of my own, but I seldom even read the books I have.

I want all these things, but I never act on them. I don’t even know why. Shouldn’t wanting something make you strive for it? Maybe I don’t really want them, just idly dream about them, and as dreams they can never become true. I don’t know.

I guess this isn’t a great time, because I am doing stuff, unlike over the last winter when I just sat and didn’t do much of anything for 6 months. Still though, I could, nay, should be doing something more.

Oh well, I just felt like a good off the wall rant, rather than the usual boring update.

Comments welcome.

nick

You’re no special agent, you’re just some jerk that hates my mustache!

Yeah, It's Definitely Summer

Concert, Lupe, Job, Chinese, Heat, and Visitors

Saturday night Jenn and I went to the Foreigner concert at Vets Park. There were something like 10,000 people there. We had to wait in line for 30 minutes to get in the gate, and were in about 7:05, with the concert starting at 7. There were 2 opening bands, with the main act finally beginning around 9:30. By 10:30, after hearing “Jukebox Hero” (my main reason for coming, too bad all the songs were over-amplified) we left to beat the other 9,998 people out.

I saw Lupé there. Poor stupid mexican, enlisted in the Army and broke his shoulder a week before graduating boot camp, got kicked out. His dad was offering me jobs, but I didn’t take.

Speaking of jobs, I applied for a really cool one, but it was pulled from the site a few hours later. No word from them about why.

Last night Jenn and I went to Old Great Wall Buffet. They have rear parking now, in case the front fills up, which it does. They had boiled eggs, and Jenn had one, I said you should get some more, and mix the yolks with some tarter sauce and hot mustard, she did, and said they were pretty good deviled eggs. Of course, everything at OGW is always good.

It is currently 80 degrees, with a heat index of 84 AT ALMOST MIDNIGHT! This is getting pretty shitty. The humidity being so high certainly doesn’t help. It makes you feel like your 10 lbs. heavier and gravity is pissed off at you or something.

I am at 4931 visitors, only 69 to go for my 5000. Thats one hell of a marker, I must say. Just think, about 2 more years I will be getting to 10,000. Wow.

OK, that’s it I guess. See you on Thursday, and stay cool.

nick

Just remember, heat makes peppers produce more oils, and oils make peppers hot, so come late summer, we can all have awesome homemade salsa. That’s really all the consolation I can give for the heat.

You Bastard

Dunham’s, New, and TOH.

Lets see…

Sealab, underneath the water,
Sealab, at the bottom of the sea…

Yeah, uhm…

I applied at Dunham’s in the mall. They did a big expansion and are hiring.

If you would like to see the new template, and voice your opinion of it, the poll is now up.

I am kinda sad now, cause This Old House is back to re-runs. No new shows till fall.

OK, thats it. Will try for bigger on Sunday.

nick

“I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals, I am because I hate plants.”

If I Were You, Who would you be?

Chinese, GM, eBay, and Me.

Yesterday, Scott Jenn and I went to Mandarin House. Was good. Hampton Mall is very sad though.

Today, Scott talked to Harvey at GM. Good and bad news. Scott and I are near the top of “the List”, but there will not be any hirings in the near future. I presume probably until around next union negotiation, in October 06.

eBay seriously sucks. I am never selling on it again, and probably never buying either. I don’t know if I should blame the buyers for trying to screw me, UPS for shipping mishaps, or just bad luck. After 4 bitching buyers and 2 account hackings, including 1 charging up a lot of fees, I give up.

Still no sign of the now infamous “Me”. I am offering a reward if you have any information. I don’t know what the reward is, but I’ll find something.

OK, that’s plenty for now.

nick

The good news it’s only 110˚ in the shade.
The bad news is there isn’t any shade.

Number 201

Not much

Well, I finished the game. About 2:15 this morning. It would have been sooner, but I had to go live my life. Damn people wanting me to do stuff. Oh well.

Uhm , actually that’s most of what I’ve done. And I haven’t really even played the game lately.

I’m watching a SouthPark about satanic woodland animals. It’s one of the most screwed up episodes I’ve seen, but I haven’t really seen many.

Anyway, I sadly think that’s it.

I didn’t want to blog, cause I enjoyed not blogging for 9 days, but now I’m sad because I have nothing.

Ooh!

The job.

It was pulled the next day, so that’s a no. But, I found another one and applied yesterday. I am 0% qualified, but I still have about 10% hope, and that’s amazing. (No, thats not a typo, I meant 10%, not 100%. Just wanted to point that out.)

OK, that’s it. Good bye.

nick

“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”

!!!!!!!!!! 200th !!!!!!!!!!

200, Jobs, and Game.

Yeay! Two hundred posts. That’s freaking insane. That means it’s been 600 days? Wow. I can’t believe I’ve written that much crap.

I don’t think I mentioned it, but Nextel never happened. They were only interviewing on the 1 day. Oh well, I will find something. I would of course prefer sooner than later. I did see a cool job on Michigan Works today, as a rail car mechanic and inspector. I have no mechanics experience though. I will look into it a little more though, as it sounds like it could be cool.

So yeah, as I said last time, I’ve been playing MGS3, hence the last 2 posts being made today. I am almost done with it though. The Metal Gear series is awesome, if you like that kind of game. It’s like a movie that lasts a week.

All right, I think that wraps it up. Back Friday I guess.

nick

Playing the blues isn’t supposed to make you feel better,
It’s supposed to make everyone else feel worse.
– Bleeding Gums Murphy, the Simpsons

Happy Thanksgiving (well, yesterday)

Thanksgiving Wrap-Up

So, Nextel never called back, I will call them Monday morning.

I went with Jenn on Wednesday to Alpena. We left about 12 and were back around 6 or 7 Thursday.

Wednesday we ate at Burger King in Standish, arrived in Alpena just in time for her appointment at 3, though she didn’t get in till almost 4. We then went to Staples to see her old workmates. Following that, we went to her house and set up the airbed and settled in. About 11 that night we got bored and went to Wal-Mart (I hate walmart, but it’s all they have) and Applebee’s, despite the rather poor conditions including slush, snow, and ice.

Thursday Jenn was up early helping her mom, and when I got up I helped out with the string bean casserole and sweet potatoes. We then had classic Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc… dinner with Jenn, her mom and dad, and sister, brother-in-law, niece, step niece, and nephew.

After dinner we sat around for a few hours, and about 3:30ish we packed up and headed home.

While we were gone Wednesday night, my brother went to see my cousin on Delta Rd. On his way back at the corner of Delta and Bay Rd., he started sliding just before the intersection. He slid into a concrete island in the intersection, snapped the front left axle leaving his tire, then slid across the street stopping in a field. In all, he broke the front axle, lost both left tires, broke a brake rotor, and who knows what else. He and Alley are fine, except being crushed over his now very injured truck. So now he is driving my mom’s truck and I am left with the Grand Prix that has no insurance.

OK, I am going to bed.

nick

Turkey Day is Coming

Job, Mr. Deeds, Thanksgiving, Puppy, eBay

Hi all.

I might have a job, as a repair technician at Advanced Wireless. I turned in my resume yesterday and they called a few hours later for an interview. Problem is I am going to Alpena with Jenn tomorrow and wont be back till Thursday night, and of course they wanted the interview tomorrow. They were supposedly going to try and get me in today, but never called. Oh well, maybe Friday or Saturday.

We rented Mr. Deeds again a few days ago. The first time we rented it we forgot to watch it. This time, we tried to watch it, but the disk wouldn’t work right. Not in my ibook, my PS2, or our DVD player. Talk about a bad disk.

As I said above, I will be in Alpena from about noon Wednesday to 6 or 7 pm on Thursday.

Jenn and I went to the animal shelter and were looking at the dogs. In one cage there was a little black ball hiding in the corner, and deja vu immediately set in. As it got up and walked toward us, it got worse. You see, Molly was a little black ball in the corner when we got her. This new ball is nearly a twin. A black lab, about 8 to 12 weeks old, and even has the white spot on its chest. This one is a boy though, and no spots on the paws. It would be nice, but we can’t handle another Molly.

I sold one of my 3 auctions on eBay, and shipped it out today. The other 2 are relisted until next Tuesday I believe. The freaking moron that wouldn’t pay has now left negative feedback claiming they did pay and I never shipped, so now I am fighting with eBay to get the comment pulled. Damn morons, screwing it up for the rest of us. Oh well, I am trying not to think about that, cause it pisses me off.

Anyway, I think that’s it. I’ll see you all Friday, with the post-turkey day update.

nick