Happy Halloween

Punk'in

44 - Wow

OK, Big Fucking News. Today I am 44 years old.

HA!

Back to MSFT??

Job Front

So I'm not really making progress looking for a job outside of MSFT. It taught me several things.
1. I don't and have not networked well.
2. I've not kept up on what's going on in the business world like I used to.
3. Finding a job outside of MSFT channels is much much harder than I thought.
4. Contactor/Vendor jobs are pretty limited in their scope, scale and influence.

So about a week ago I sat down and reviewed all the positions I thought were of interest. I then asked Noah to email each of the hiring managers and send my resume. She sent a total of 22.

I got 3 responses all of which said they had filled the position.

HOWEVER, one shiny glimmer of hope. I did get a phone interview last Friday. I think it went well. This last Monday I received an email that I would be contacted by human resources to schedule a full interview loop.

Well, I hope it goes well as it's the only sincere thing I've got in the queue right now.

Back Fat

Oh, today I was @ 158.6 weight, with 7.1% body fat. My goal is by 10/20 be below 160. At the end of the month, I want to hold BELOW 160 and at Christmas still be below 160, and carry that through the new year into this next summer.

Bike Ride

I've been riding 2-4 hours almost every day. I let the air out of the tires of the Colnago and put it up for the winter, convinced we would not see any nice days. Then we had yesterday. Spectacular. Pumped the the tires and did a nice 4+ hour ride.

Oh yesterday, I got in an arguement with a CADMAN (local trucking company) dump truck driver and he pissed me off so much I noted is truck number, called his company and complained about his lack of professionalism. I had to leave a voice mail, but I basically told him, I ride a lot. I have a lot of experience on Washington roads, I encounter their trucks EVERYWHERE, and I have never ever in all my years encountered what I thought was such outside of the norm, extra ordinary, lack of professionalism, ever.

Less than 1 hour later, the supervisor's supervisor called me back took down the facts and told me he would follow up on the episode and then contact me this next week to let me know how it went. Wow.

Mom is Moving HERE!

Mom's moving over here and we've been helping her look at houses. Her qualifications are so rare that she has 3 companies (in this uncertain economy) wanting her to come for interviews. One place in downtown said that she should NOT accept a job with anybody UNTIL she interviewed with them. Wow. That has certainly NEVER happened to me! Way to go MOM.

FUNNY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI8kv4pSxa8

Fucking Mandelbrot?

Ok I got nothing to say.

Back on the WAGON

Yep, 10/1 time to start tracking calories, again.

Gotta get sub 160 before the end of the month.