Daily Archives: January 18, 2008

x o let’s go

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I’m posting this from my XO laptop, which was delivered this morning. It is tiny and cute, and the keyboard makes my eyes cross.

Things I have noticed so far:

  • I have the same issue posting here as I do with my iPod Touch – Safari doesn’t recognize the “visual” post window so I have to write in “code” (which is fine, it’s just one more step)
  • I had a bitch of a time getting it online and was finally only able to do so when I disabled our wireless security (onos I’m wide open and vulnerable to hax0rs, someone save meeeeee)

This thing is still pretty cool, though. I’d post a picture via the camera, but I’m nekkid – maybe later.

I still want an EEE PC, though. *drool*

i had a dream

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I woke up this morning thinking about pre-natal vitamins. What the hell? Bad brain. BAD!

I finally heard back from one of the jobs I had interviewed for yesterday, and I did not get it. It sucks more than usual, because I had a really good interview with them and I felt really positive about it all. Unfortunately, they decided to promote from within and gave a current employee the position instead of bringing in someone awesome, ie: me. Their loss, I suppose.

I’m a little angry about it all, though. Yes, not getting the job sucks – however, they’ve known since Monday that they decided to keep it in the family and I had to call THEM to find this out. I’ve been anxiously waiting by the phone and email since day one, and they didn’t even have the courtesy to tell me until I hunted them down (literally, I had no contact information) and asked for an update. That’s three and a half extra days of worry I really, really could have lived without. Not cool.

So, I’m left waiting to hear back from interview one (4 weeks, 1 day and counting!) and the flicker of hope is fading daily. I do have another interview lined up for Monday that sounds promising – here’s hoping something good comes my way soon, because we’re running out of money and I’m getting scared.

Oh, and I’ve given up on working in the video game industry. I tried for four months straight and got exactly 1.3 nibbles that resulted in two “thanks but no thanks” – it was a nice idea, but I need a job and the statute of limitations on “follow your dream” has officially run out.