hello.
since everybody else has been doing this kind of stuff lately, here's my iteration of the 'what states have you visited' thing, except since i've visited all fifty states, i'm doing the country one, particularly since it can serve as a reminder of how much there is left to see.
i may have missed the boat this winter with the really cheap fares to europe, but i'm still thinking of going again. everybody at work thinks i'm nuts for just jetting off to england for a weekend or something, but really, it's way cheaper than pretty much anywhere besides florida or vegas or new york (airfare-wise), and i need to take advantage of the opportunity to go there while i still live on the east coast.
which of course, brings me to other stuff, which is to say, that i think i've set a deadline for myself. i think i need to move to california. which is not to say that i don't like it here, quite the opposite. and i'd miss all my wonderful friends. but the fact remains, pretty much every job i've any interest in is out there. which hasn't stopped me from applying for them, but i've yet to hear a reply from... anyone, due to the fact that i live on the opposite side of the country. so, yeah, i think i have to move to the west coast. so i can camp out on the doorstep of jpl, apple, or boeing/rocketdyne or whatever until they realize that i am the pro/e demigod they're looking for. but what's wrong with my current job? oh, ha ha. that's very funny. yeah. we've laid off more people, more people i worked with. people i've known for nearly 5 years, now, scarily enough. and that's bad enough, but between that, people with forced transfers, and people imminently quitting, to say nothing of the increased workload, the new need to work 11-8 a few nights a week, and the fact that i'm completely fucking sick of it, the job is rapidly becoming untenable. so yeah. i've got to leave at some point. i've set a deadline for myself of the end of september, and then i'm going to leave. i figure that'll be after the pan-mass challenge, and right around the harpoon oktoberfest, etc. i may have to delay it if the sox are going to be in the playoffs. but yeah, after that, westward ho. san francisco, seattle, or 'bob' forbid, l.a. ... so yeah, now i've opened my damn mouth, so now i have to do it, right?
i watched the phantom menace today, for the first time in a long time. and you know what? it's better than i remembered. still problematic, of course, and jake lloyd is still like fingernails on a chalkboard to me, but you know, it's a pretty entertaining movie. it moves more quickly than attack of the clones, but at the same time, the story is simpler and less complex. and the swordfight at the end is still bad-ass, and actually that's what made me want to watch it--reading the spoiler-free news on tf.n about episode iii, and getting very excited for the duel that everybody knows is at the end of it. just 16 more months...
in other news, it's been pointed out to me that my resume sucks, and needs work, and one possible alternative that i came up with was to make it in pro/e. still needs work (and a model to accent it, but trust me, i'm working on that, big-time).
anyway, that's enough rambling for now, boys and girls. frog blast the vent core...
what!?! no tolerance block?
cool idea. i'd never think of it. it definitely proves a point.
California eh? I hear its nice out here this time of year ;)
