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To paraphrase , if puberty ever catches up with this guy, his career is over

So earlier this week I got a hit off my Monster (or Dice) resume. I’d never heard of the product that would be supported by the job (sys admin position) and told the recruiter such. Their response was “don’t worry, no one outside our industry has. We’ll train you for that part.” and that everything else on my resume looked perfect for the position, including the fact that I like to travel. They asked if I was interested, I said yes, they asked the classic “what are your salary requirements so we don’t waste each other’s time?” Now, this is where I get annoyed. That’s like asking someone on eBay “What’s your reserve, so we don’t waste each other’s time with my bidding?”

Anyway, I came back with “What are you willing to pay?”

They responded today with a quite acceptable figure.

The NON-girly feminine product.
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And with the power of Youtube, I can watch this one over and over…

(You can see that the driver of the SUV / minivan can see where this is about to go and wants no part of it.)

I’ve discovered youtube is as dangerous as Wikipedia. I can get on either site and get wrapped up in it for hours following crosslinks.

Tonight I’ve been fascinated by a series of videos, apparently from a music festival in Cracow, Poland. I don’t understand a word of Polish but the talent is amazing. I’m guessing that this festival was also a benefit concert for some sort of cause. A lot of the performers appear to have a disability of one sort or another. One young boy in a wheelchair (but that doesn’t let him hold back belting out a great tune). A couple of singers I suspect are blind, one who is either a dwarf or has developed one amazing singing talent for a 5 year old (Actually I’m leaning in the direction of “talented kid” right now. Her face is just too young. But where she learned to sing like that at her age I’ll never know.)

It’s amazing how good music can sound, even when the words are absolutely unintelligible gibberish to the listener.

Already posted by Densar and klwalton, but worth posting again, if only because he said it so well:

Who has left this hole in the ground?
We have not forgotten, Mr. President.
You have.
May this country forgive you.

“Everything changed that day.”

Yeah.. the economy took a brief hit. For me that meant my unemployment was probably 6 months longer than it would have been otherwise. I was already unemployed.

But the Great American Economy keeps on rolling. The only thing that really changed is Bush, et al, got justification for his racist, right-wing, exclusionary brand of politics. Everyone started flying more US flags. All things French were cowardly and “un-American” (well DUH!) and we started using terms like “Freedom fries”.

What’s changed? Today I live in another state, make about 1/3 of what I was making when I was employed before 9/11 and am dating a wonderful woman.

Things change. But not because of 9/11.

So, in honor of 9/11 and everyone who died that day, I’m going to…

Get on with my life.

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(I gave my email address to her uncle, standing behind her with the baby, in case her family wanted copies of these pictures, but I never heard from them.)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all.