heard from an old work friend :)

Hm. I woke up with my brain popping with things I could do, today. So of course then I read for an hour and a half. I've tried to redeem myself by doing exercises and gathering up the names of people who've responded to my plea for references to put on my resume.

One in particular I was quite pleased to hear from as he kind of disappeared for a while after HomeRuns.com broke up. He sent me a link to his showpeice site - nothing personal, just stuff he put up to be pretty. To warn you, it downloads stuff, which always creeps me out. I trust him, because, well, I worked with him for a couple of years and he always seemed consistently genuine*, but if you don't want something downloaded and to hear Sting's music, don't go there - www.rashid.ws . Yeah, I'll admit it, I crossed my fingers and chanted "I trust you, Rashid, I trust you." Hey, he did save me from getting a stick in my eye, one time. ;) (And yes I AM about the clumsiest person who ever walked down a street looking at their feet.)

Anyhow, the page is pretty, but do you think I should tell him he could use some paragraph breaks in that history of Sudan? And a few references or an attribution? If he's going to stress his communications skills it seems like a good idea.

*I was rather surprised that he went to a strip club with us but then refused alcohol because his religion forbids it. I had assumed all religions were checked at the door in a strip club.

PS - Server errors are rampant on LJ, today. I'm nervous.

touch the puppet head

Memo to myself - do the dumb things I've gotta do.

I need to phone Vanity Fair and see if they really mean it with their offer to exchange a bra which doesn't fit. I bought five bras weekend-before-last(1) but two of them really don't fit right. I'd cleaned out all of the ones in my size in one style, so I grabbed a couple of a similar style, but they don't fit at all the same. When you're spending that much for something(2) you want it to fit right.

I also really have to balance my checkbook - I've let it go even longer than I usually do. I don't think there's any worry. But.

And I need to see if the woman who handles leases for our management company is in, yet, so we can find out what's going on with the lease for our apartment. They said they had made some changes and they wanted to talk with us about them before we signed, and the secretary gave me a copy of something she thought was the new lease, but it says our rent is supposed to be like $125 less than what we were told last month it would be. It's all getting a little confusing.

And I also still haven't figured out what the heck I did with OpenOffice and WordPad that so messed up those copies of my story. Because making the fixes is something that still needs to be done.

Hm. Weird. My computer's time is an hour slow. I wonder how that happened? *fixes*

StratfordOnGuy told me today that he's planning to move back to Tampa. I'll miss the heck out of him. :(

I wonder if that's everything I had to say. Pretty dull. I had a pleasantly unstressful day downstairs. It's so good coming home not feeling a need to rant about passengers. Although we did have a woman come in desiring to check a huge fern which her father had uprooted and put in a plastic bag. Can you imagine what would happen to that in the baggage compartment of a plane? She eventually flattened it between two peices of cardboard, with a ton of tape to hold the plastic bag to the bottom, so we shrugged and screened it. I can't think it will survive.

It's time for bed.

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(1)Which brings me up to a total of like 8 - makes me feel like a rich person! I can change my bra every day! I don't think I've ever before in my life felt as though I could afford to buy five bras all at once. I may have done so, but I probably agonized about it.

(2)$29 apiece, at least at first - when you figure in the one they gave me free and the fact they're supposed to send me another "free" with the rebate [although "free" in this case means $3 for shipping] they get a little less expensive. Uh. *finds a calculator* $19 and some change. I'm not even going to try to figure tax.