Wow.
The new cover of Sports Illustrated talks about this amazing World Series win and features Big Papi and the three Boston police officers from some of the most iconic photos on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing. Those same three officers had been on a previous cover shortly after the bombing.
Regular visitors around here may have noticed that it’s been quiet for a while. Sometimes life gets in the way and we can’t post, I’m sure you all understand. Sometimes life hands you great material for posting and the first thought one of us has it, “that’ll make such a good post!” Then we might go days without such inspiration.
Then sometimes life kicks you in the teeth and there just isn’t anything to say. That’s what’s been happening lately.
I realized today that we haven’t posted here since the end of February. We’re going to try to not let that happen again. Sometimes life just gets in the way.
It is astonishing the difference in customer service between Verizon and DirecTV. Lately we have been the victims of all sorts of technology failures: we have poor cell reception in our house; the DirecTV connection in our living room stopped working; my primary desktop PC is dying a slow death; and of course our Internet connection has been both slow and intermittent. The tech that came by yesterday was able to diagnose what was wrong with the DirecTV connection in our living room pretty quickly based on what I told him about the differences in signal strength between the two boxes. Imagine that. He actually listened to what I was saying. So he quickly found and fixed the problem (the jack in the wall had gone bad) and now we (meaning Kelly especially) can watch TV in the living room again.
Of course, the Internet connectivity problem continues to plague us.
While I see that the unemployment figures for the state of Massachusetts are slowly going down, I am still looking for work. I am fortunate enough to have had a couple of interviews this month, but so far nothing looks certain. Of course Kelly is still looking for full-time work also, and is still grabbing as many shifts as she can at her part-time job. I feel like I need to do something different, but I am not sure what. Should I try to get more IT certifications? Should I try something else? I almost feel like my answer should be “all of the above” so I don’t limit myself.
-Geoff
Tomorrow is the day we had set as the RSVP no later than date, and so naturally something like half of the people we invited have not yet responded. No, that’s not an exaggeration. Half. Including half of the choir.
Geoff here – as Kelly posted earlier we had a pretty good experience at the National Urban League conference this weekend. The career fair (as they called it) was quite good, and I managed to make some good contacts for some local jobs. One HR manager we spoke to actually said she was going to hand carry my resume down to the head of the department. I would say that is a good thing. I also got some superb advice on my resume, and I am in the process of making those adjustments.
The Books are Taking Over... 