Where Oh Where has Spacey gone? Where oh where can he be??

While we were on a vacation, paid for ages ago, with the help of family, it turns out that Verizon disconnected our network. It was complicated by the fact that we should be getting 3 bills from them (landline/cable for here, the business class FiOS for here, and the bill for the landline down in SE Ohio, which is still in my name, but my sister-in-law pays since she rents from me)... but Verizon cannot seem to get us bills... yea, we should have noticed this earlier, but in the struggles of trying to pay all the other bills with just my unemployment, it got lost in the confusion... and so... no net. I am having to check mail and such from the local library, which means no UT. And that means I miss some time with great friends like Rose, Clue, Wayno (congrats BTW), Elite, and many others...

As for how things are going... those of you who are friends of mine on Facebook have seen updates about me having 3 interviews this week... the first was Monday with a MIS Director who is a friend of a friend to do some contract work on a new intranet for the company they work for... should be talking about a meeting to scope out the work next week, and then perhaps I will end up contracting for them for 3-6 months. They also have contacts with a startup which may need my help too, at the ground floor... Today, I met with a recruiter at a tech consulting/placement firm, who may be putting me in at CERT/SEI (which is complicated by the fact that they are associated with CMU, and the BS which CMU used to terminate me) as well as some other places... and Friday, I have a phone interview with a company here in town, where I may be doing some real-time C++ programming. Some of these positions are even looking at the possibility of long term employment at more than $80K/yr. (short of what I was making 2.5 yrs ago though...

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Well, got to get back home to mow a yard and take care of some other things. Hope get get net and get back on soon!

Oh... and if you have my email @ka8zrt.com and want to reach me, use the same user name @gmail.com for now... that way it will not bounce. Or you can also reach me on FB!

Got a phone call about an hour ago. I have a job!!! I start on the 20th!

I will be doing web development at a local company, re-writing their intranet into a new framework from the existing ColdFusion. While this is coming from a Windows machine, and will be one initially, this may initially move to a LAMP server, and more importantly... It is a job!!! Oh, and I get to keep the code!

WOOOOWW DUDE! LET ME BE THE FIRST TO SAY GRATS!!
I knew it!! all my prays do work for something!!!

really dude!! just one more thing?when u are going to play? i need another am! right now im like the only one *high lvl am playing arround!

I will be playing later on tonight I hope!!! I think I found part of my problem the past couple of days being that my 20/5Mbps connection has been more like 1/5... gotta call Verizon about this.

grats about the job!!

Well... two updates...

1) I talked to Verizon, who re-built my cross-connects, which appeared to have screwed up when they reconnected my service. Testing showed that for the first time in ages, I got my bandwidth up to that for which they have been charging me (20/5 and getting 19.8/9.5!!). Game play last night was sooo much better.

2) The job start may actually be the 27th, because while initially we thought that HR was not going to require a background check, they asked for that info late yesterday afternoon. At least I see the light and know it is the end of this tunnel!

congrats on the job and i'll tell them about your work for al-quida.

just pull'n your leg lol

Congrats on the job Spacey. Tough to keep a good man down. <

Excellent news, my friend.

All the best to you!

After another email exchange with the guy at the contract house, I should be getting paperwork tomorrow morning to fill out, and we are proceeding on the presumption that I show up on Monday.

Also, the past week has been rather crazy in other ways. My sister-in-law has been dealing with problems with twins she was expecting. The original due date was to be in about 10 weeks, had it been a single baby, and they were hoping to get her to the 35-37 week period, and have her deliver right around Halloween... especially given all the troubles with things like twin-to-twin transference and such. But last Thursday, while there were tornadoes in the area, her water broke for one of the twins, and she underwent an emergency c-section. Given that there is no NICU where she lives, they then had to wait until they could get two NICU teams to her hospital to transport her to the hospital where one of the specialists who has dealt with this pregnancy is at... the squads could not get through on the ground, and the life-flight was delayed because of those same storms... and so now, the babies are known as "those babies who flew in after the storm"... they are thankfully doing OK, and are stable,but they are probably looking at at least a month, perhaps more in the NICU before they get out. (Oh... and weights... 2lbs7oz for baby B, and 2lbs for baby A, which was born a minute later... names being Elana and Diana).

This past weekend added to the craziness... friends stepped down as king&queen of our local kingdom in the SCA (and gave me an award), and we rushed from that event early to drive the hour back to town to try to make a wedding for a couple of other SCA friends... got there just after the ceremony, but got to spend time at the reception. And then we tried to make the post-reign party, but just missed it..

But all in all... it was a good week, and things continue to look as if I will be starting the new contract position on Monday.