I realized I had not posted an update about my employment situation in some time.  I have a job now.  It’s a contract position for a company called Premier Retail Networks, in San Francisco.  It’s a division of Technicolor (Thomson) with I guess about 250 people.  The company provides services for retailers who wish to […]

When did it become OK for HR departments to simply not respond to resumé submissions at all?  Not even a “We’ve received your resume and we’ll let you know if we find anything suitable”?  This seems arrogant and unprofessional.  Did this happen with the meltdown or has it been going on for a long time? […]

At Least It Didn’t Come On My Birthday

Originally uploaded by Tymcode

This was my ten year service trophy from Adobe. Since I got sacked last month, they had to send it to my house. That was fun to open.
You’d think they might have arranged to have something more appropriate on the little cards that came in […]

In my effort to procrastinate doing the things that will improve my life, I’ve been working on improving Shoshanah’s.  Specifically, her car.  She despises doing anything to maintain her car with a kind of weird passion, so it falls to me.  For example, she’d been bugging me to replace the wiper blades on it so […]

Office Shelves

Originally uploaded by Tymcode

The accursed office shelves are finally up. Not having these has created chaos for three years. I still have to finish one plank in the top left corner that needs special treament due to the roof slant, but the hard part is finished.
They’re seriously overbuilt because I plan to […]

I’ve resolved to eat my way through our the freezer in the garage. This has been a big bone of contention between my wife and I. She’s convinced anything over about 3 months old in the freezer is “freezerburnt and nasty” and I have a difficult time getting her to prepare it. […]

Today wasn’t really about job-hunting, exactly.  I got word that two of my classes have been accepted for Art Unraveled in Phoenix next August — Dynamic Digital Collage (like last year) and the new Digital Distressing class.  No Pajama party, which was really helpful last year for my day class students to retain what they […]

Again with the not going back to sleep after dropping Grey off.  What a good boy am I.  I came back and got to work, working the networks (of people) a bit.  I got frustrated because I have so many collections of contact information with a mix of stale data.  I guess I should sign […]

All right, enough’s enough.  I have, gathered before me, close to SEVEN  TERABYTES of external hard drives and NAS network drives.  Each individual drive is partitioned in various ways for various reasons; needed a FAT volume for to share with Windows machines, or NTFS for very large files for Windows, or formatted for whatever this […]

Today was spent mostly wrestling with technical problems in the computers at the house, especially Shoshanah’s iMac which has been kernel-panicking routinely.  I wiped the internal drive, reinstalled Snow Leopard and copied the data from a backup on an external drive.  It SEEMS to be stable now but we’ll see.
I’m sure glad for Time Machine, […]