In which this website would be in fifth grade now, if it were human.
GOBLINBOX.COM is nine years old today.
It’s been on at least seven different servers. It’s been hand-coded, it’s been run on Movabletype and WordPress. It’s had ten different forums. There have been as many as eight different databases at a time. There have [...]
In which I flail around a bit more because apparently I’m a bit of a moron.
When you’re fourteen, you go to high school. That’s just what you do; everybody knows this. When you’re eighteen, you go to college. After college, you go to work and strive to pay off your student loans.
Eventually, you meet someone [...]
Continue reading about Don’t mind me, I’m just trying to figure out what to do with myself.
In which it was really exciting there for a minute, but then my hopes were dashed.
I found a job under Tech Support on craigslist. It looked good. I scrolled down to the bottom of the page and clicked the link to apply for it. After I finished the online quiz – five fairly interesting but [...]
In which I drop by briefly on my way to a gig.
The co-op finally emailed Friday afternoon: they thanked me but declined, deciding instead to hire from within.
I am having a full-on romance, complete with poetry and chocolates and necking and stuff. It’s awesome. We’re apart this weekend, though, because we’re both gigging in different [...]
In which there’s no new job, but there is a new beau.
The co-op hasn’t called.
My last contact with them was on January 19th; it’s been nearly three weeks. If they were going to hire me, they’d have done so by now.
I’ve been applying for three jobs every week just like I’m supposed to, and [...]
Continue reading about It’d be time to panic, if I weren’t so mellow.
In which I’m not really having a very good day.
I got a heads-up yesterday that I was going to be laid off today so I did the right thing last night and cleaned up my work computer, uninstalling silly applications and clearing browser caches and passwords and blah blah blah.
Today I went in to the [...]
Continue reading about Loss of: job, vehicular mobility, and Xmarks.
In which I totally don’t even work for Facebook, but you’d never know it by listening in on my calls.
Me: …this is Michelle, how may I help you?
Caller: Is there something wrong with your network in Idaho?
Me: No sir, there are no current known service outages. What symptoms are you experiencing?
Caller: I keep getting blank [...]
In which I’m suddenly considering where I might be living next Spring.
1. Dear Walla Walla: It snowed. YESTERDAY. And today, the streets are still full of snow! Why don’t you plow when it snows? What the hell is wrong with you?!
2. For reasons I haven’t been working here long enough to understand but which may [...]
Continue reading about It’s Sunday, and there are two things.
In which I bitch about my current work schedule, but find some stuff to be excited about.
I had yesterday off, which made it my Saturday. I have today off too, which means it’s my Sunday even though it’s your hump day.
I hate my new work schedule, I really do. Let’s look at the monstrosity [...]
In which I don’t have to be at work until one o’clock tomorrow afternoon.
Due to a personnel change at work, I’m now going to be the closing technician. Starting tomorrow.
Which is fine. You know how I feel about mornings.
Trying to get a fixed schedule is proving to be difficult though, because I need a lot [...]
In which I love my new job because they give me benefits!
I started here at the ol’ ISP/CLEC three months ago last week, which made me eligible for not only the first health insurance I’ve had in a decade but also free DSL! Free!
My dry loop was delivered by Qwest today. Oh yes it was.
I [...]
