The General Situation

I haven't posted an update in a while. Like most people my recent life can be summed up in a short sentence: things have been happening recently; some good, some bad. The bad things are mostly health related and I will not bore anyone here in my general post with the details, suffice to say that the problems will either get better or eventually they will no longer be a problem.

So, then there's the good news ... apparently the way for me to get really good solid IT job offers was to quit my previous job at Envirotest and accept a part-time consulting gig covering Milwaukee area clients for a firm from Madison. I had my first client visit on Monday, things went well and I was happy and looking forward to more nice, easy visits just like that one ... so of course I got a full time offer on Tuesday.

At first I was reluctant -- I haven' t worked full time in a long time and the part-time gig certainly paid well enough for me to afford to be somewhat lazy ... but the full time gig not only paid somewhat better, but it's very firmly back in my field of database development. (Data migration, parsing, and reporting to be specific.) I resisted the first time, but when they called back again a few hours later, I told them I'd think about it and by Wednesday, I let them know I was interested and would accept the job.

So naturally I got three more leads and/or follow-ups from other jobs after that. Where were all these offers several weeks ago? Sheesh.

Anyway, I'm going to be busy during the week for about two months, then it cuts back to 4 days a week so I can be a little lazy again. It's projected to go past the end of the year, which in the language of most contract positions means probably at least a year or so. The only downside? I'll have to wear a tie again, but considering I've been dressing in a uniform for work for the last two years and I'll be making ... er ... about 4 times as much per hour ... I think I can tolerate that.

Of course after checking my wardrobe, it looks like I need to go do a little shopping ...

Surrealistic Spam: Because Piano size is very important!

I normally just drop spam straight into my Junk folder, but I'll admit this one caught my eye:

Big your piano, be a real man

Chicks always laugh at me and even guys did in the WC toilets!
Well now I smile at them because I took megadlk for 6 months
and now my disk is much bigger than NATION average piano size. :p
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I bought that music disk from this store
the flight, the second stage began to roll out of
The fully grown dinosaur is at least 2.1 meters long and
account in China," said Sasae.
digging, and two juveniles, all in the same place. It
with his Afghan interpreter and his driver, while

I've been seeing a lot of this kind of thing lately. Is the randomness, as amusing as the results may be, suppose to make me interested in their "product?"