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Jul. 1st, 2015 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckScott's phone interview yesterday seems to have gone reasonably well. We're a little worried by the fact that they didn't talk to him for the full half an hour that was originally scheduled, but they did talk nearly that long, and finishing the time would have kept the interviewers there past 5:00. I don't expect they were eager to do that.
Second shift at Scott's work has lost another person, so there's going to be even more overtime. Scott has been frustrated because they have a handful of competent temps who he thinks should be hired permanently, but management doesn't seem to be making any moves in that direction.
The oldest of our nieces is a big John Green fan, and there's some sort of event related to the Paper Towns movie that will be happening near our vacation rental while we're there. She desperately wants to go and is trying to talk Cordelia and the other cousin near their age into lobbying for it. Cordelia's reaction is that she's not interested in the movie until and unless she reads the book first, and she's 45th on the waitlist for one of the library copies. I'm not sure how enthusiastic Cordelia would be anyway-- She's not at all big on movies, generally, and never has been. We can't get her to the theater even for things that she's really eager to see.
Scott was going to order a larger hard drive for me, but I'm not sure if he got around to it before we lost power on Saturday. I'll have to remember to ask him. He says that putting a new hard drive into my laptop will be trivial. My current hard drive is 120 GB; the one he was talking about getting is about 500 GB, so it would be a really big difference.
My shoulder is doing a lot better in spite of my not doing the exercises since Saturday. I haven't wanted to put the stress on my ankle which does still hurt, just not as much as it did on Monday. I've been trying to walk and stand as little as I can get away with. Unfortunately, that means that the dishes are piling up, and that the laundry still needs to be put away.
Drat. Something weird is going on with our internet, but I can't get any information about it. From my laptop. Usually, I can tell, without getting up, whether or not our local network is connected to anything external, but right now, the program won't give me that information. Of course, that may well mean that there isn't a connection at all. I don't know. There is a dial tone on the landline, so it's not that. I suppose I should hack my way into the study (which is full of empty cardboard boxes) and try cycling the modem.
Oh, and suddenly we're back. I have no idea what happened.
The anniversary presents I ordered for Scott finally arrived yesterday. He seemed pleased with them. One of them is an Atomic Robo book, and the other is some sort of game book. He's now got three or four different game systems that he'd like a chance to try and probably won't end up doing anything with.
Some time when the weather is nicer (It's currently raining, I think), Cordelia will probably walk to Bookbound and buy the two Hunger Games books she doesn't own. She tried to do that on Monday but discovered that the store is closed on Mondays. She was more than a little cranky about that.
Scott might have to work late tonight. He's hoping not, but he said there was a chance he'd be working late tonight, tomorrow and Friday. If that happens, dinners will be a challenge because we're out of leftovers. Of course, maybe by tomorrow, I'll be comfortable standing long enough to cook.
Second shift at Scott's work has lost another person, so there's going to be even more overtime. Scott has been frustrated because they have a handful of competent temps who he thinks should be hired permanently, but management doesn't seem to be making any moves in that direction.
The oldest of our nieces is a big John Green fan, and there's some sort of event related to the Paper Towns movie that will be happening near our vacation rental while we're there. She desperately wants to go and is trying to talk Cordelia and the other cousin near their age into lobbying for it. Cordelia's reaction is that she's not interested in the movie until and unless she reads the book first, and she's 45th on the waitlist for one of the library copies. I'm not sure how enthusiastic Cordelia would be anyway-- She's not at all big on movies, generally, and never has been. We can't get her to the theater even for things that she's really eager to see.
Scott was going to order a larger hard drive for me, but I'm not sure if he got around to it before we lost power on Saturday. I'll have to remember to ask him. He says that putting a new hard drive into my laptop will be trivial. My current hard drive is 120 GB; the one he was talking about getting is about 500 GB, so it would be a really big difference.
My shoulder is doing a lot better in spite of my not doing the exercises since Saturday. I haven't wanted to put the stress on my ankle which does still hurt, just not as much as it did on Monday. I've been trying to walk and stand as little as I can get away with. Unfortunately, that means that the dishes are piling up, and that the laundry still needs to be put away.
Drat. Something weird is going on with our internet, but I can't get any information about it. From my laptop. Usually, I can tell, without getting up, whether or not our local network is connected to anything external, but right now, the program won't give me that information. Of course, that may well mean that there isn't a connection at all. I don't know. There is a dial tone on the landline, so it's not that. I suppose I should hack my way into the study (which is full of empty cardboard boxes) and try cycling the modem.
Oh, and suddenly we're back. I have no idea what happened.
The anniversary presents I ordered for Scott finally arrived yesterday. He seemed pleased with them. One of them is an Atomic Robo book, and the other is some sort of game book. He's now got three or four different game systems that he'd like a chance to try and probably won't end up doing anything with.
Some time when the weather is nicer (It's currently raining, I think), Cordelia will probably walk to Bookbound and buy the two Hunger Games books she doesn't own. She tried to do that on Monday but discovered that the store is closed on Mondays. She was more than a little cranky about that.
Scott might have to work late tonight. He's hoping not, but he said there was a chance he'd be working late tonight, tomorrow and Friday. If that happens, dinners will be a challenge because we're out of leftovers. Of course, maybe by tomorrow, I'll be comfortable standing long enough to cook.
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Date: 2015-07-02 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-02 05:19 pm (UTC)For that matter, Scott watches both of those things, so I often hear them. They seem like a lot of fun.
I'm not sure if we could get our daughter into Crash Course, given that she knows her father watches it. Parental cooties are a big deal for her.
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Date: 2015-07-03 02:35 pm (UTC)As an aside, has he been checking out askamanager.org? I don't know if it would be any help to him for job searching, but it might be.
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Date: 2015-07-03 05:00 pm (UTC)And, yeah, he didn't get the job. They made the decision very rapidly, based on when they called to tell him. I suppose we should be glad they bothered to tell him.