March 03, 1999
What's New
Been a while. Like, over 3 months. My bad. Anyway,
back to work since the first of the year and things are going well. I didn't receive
a notice for layoff but was just notified that my retention rating was downgraded
to lowest...undoubtedly due to last two years and last eval I received. Anyway, going
to a job fair tommorow in Seattle and am applying for a job in Houston that might
have some potential. Houston would actually work since it would put me closer to
family in the South and to friends in the mid-west.Gotten away from .mp3's. I think the last CD I ripped
was back in October when my hard disk went down and had to re-do the entire collection.
Maybe that had something to do with not wanting to do anymore for a long while :)
Interestingly enough, the first .mp3 I heard was from Eagle Eye Cherry - When Mermaids
Cry. He is now touring and seems setup to be a hit. Which is nice. He has a good
clean sound, understandable lyric and write well. Good for him. Now I just need to
get Mermaids back since I didn't have a copy when I crashed.Wind and rain and rain and wind. For something like
12 weeks now. This is Puget Sound...sheesh. Anyway, it's not been pretty. Even the
hard core are saying they wished it would let up. As for me, I know that as soon
as it does, the same people will be whining about how they want the rain back and
by then we'll be in a drought or something. People are never satisified.What's On My Mind
Employment. Also, I've about burned out on playing
the online games. The people aren't the type I would normally associate with (a lot
of youngsters cursing at each other) so I'm thinking of starting to get out more.
Also, now that I have the energy and good outlook to do that, it makes itself more
attractive an opportunity every day.The Macintosh. It seems to be coming back which
is nice. In fact, my next puter may not be an Intel box but a new Mac box. We'll
have to see what the job thing works out to be. If I get away from playing Starsiege,
then I won't need the Intel chip. Which is nice. Windows is such a drag. Just getting
back on here and getting my pages fixed for 1999 was a pleasure. Things work so much
more smoothly on the Mac and it is a just more visually appealing than Windoze. Nothing
that hasn't been said before..but when you jump from a 200Mhz Intel box to a 33Mhz
Mac box and STILL enjoy using the Mac more...well that says something doesn't it.That I'm really quite boring. Which is good for
me. After the last two years of being nuts, depressed and generally fucked up...this
is ok. I'm yer basic nerd and geek and I enjoy that. I don't get out much and that's
ok for now. The cat is completely stone bug house nuts from boredom but that gets
fixed every day when he rips my arm off in frustration. Oh well...Updating this thing. Now that I don't have some
kind of weird shit happening to my brain...I don't feel the need to work with this
thing much. But, I think I will just to keep looking back and thinking and examining.
May do some good for me...who knows. It damn sure isn't going to be that interesting
for the casual reader but then it's not meant to be. It's just me.I used NetObjects Fusion on the PC and it was nice
and all...but it created some severely non-portable HTML and would have been a real
drag to modify later or turn into standard HTML. That said, when I crashed last October,
it seemed like demons from hell were after me. Now it seems that everything worked
out for the best. I'm back using a simple HTML tool, which in turn creates standard
simple HTML...which can be used anywhere. And I really didnt lose that much original
material. Just a lot of work formatting and switching over to Fusion. So it goes.
Drew
