The title is referring to whether or not my hopes are up. In other words it isn’t a typo, there is no apostrophe.
I sent my resume to a guy yesterday in response to an email about a three day job that would start a week from today. Then I emailed a follow up later on yesterday. Didn’t get a response to either one. Then this morning a guy calls me about it saying my resume was forwarded to him. He asked me a few questions then said to sign and fax/email back a background check form.
Well it wouldn’t let me attach an image of my signature so I had to print out it then run down to the UPS store to fax it. Then when I got home I realized there was a typo so I wrote the guy an email mentioning this. So he told me to send it again. Which I did, this time from a super market. The UPS store charged $1 to send one fax (with complementary coversheet) and the super market charged $2 and didn’t even offer a cover sheet. I think I’ll go to the UPS store from now on. If the need ever comes up. Which it probably won’t since I’m going to be moving in the next week and the closest place is an Office Max with a fax. I don’t remember how much they charge. Even $1 some how seems excessive. Not like I have a lot of choice though eh?
Actually after spending I don’t know how long yesterday ordering DSL online I got a call today telling me my order was canceled because of an incomplete address. I went out of my way TWICE to ask the chat agent I was talking to about why the address seemed incomplete and he assured me it would go through. Well once again demonstrating the competence of certain people as support on web IM I guess eh?
Anyway this time I went through the process with a guy on the phone and it went a lot smoother and also he pointed out how I could save a lot of money. Namely if he set me up with the absolute cheapest phone line and bundled that with DSL I would be paying like $15 less a month for the DSL. Which sounds good to me.
I also set up the gas/electric to be under my name which wasn’t nearly as complicated as I thought. Actually the guy ran a credit check to see if he could waive the security deposit. And apparently I passed because he didn’t charge me the security deposit. So that’s good I suppose.
So it’s all coming together. The DSL is supposed to be up and running by the 12th I think it was so that would be a good time to move everything. Because I really can’t be without Internet on account of I’ll need to send/receive job-related emails. That’s kind of important, yes.
I moved a really large number of bins over to the new place today actually. There was like five in my backseat and a couple more in the front and another thing in the trunk. So I really do have hardly anything left to move. Just the setup I may or may not need on daily basis sort of thing. My computer. My server. My media extender…maybe that’s important maybe it isn’t…the only big thing left is is the giant pile of clothes I still have to go through. And all the actual clothes on hanger. I mean besides the actual large furniture.
I would like to complain about one thing in current events: the possibility of over-regulation in fishing off the coast, in large lakes and some inland streams. The only thing it reminded me of for some reason was the border-line cliche scene from various adaptions of Robin Hood where some one is arrested for hunting “the King’s Dear” or “in the King’s woods”. Even though the transgressor was only hunting for food to feed his family due to the high taxes. This streams thing just seems some-how related. We can’t fish in the King’s streams without paying tribute. I’m sure those in good favor with the King would be allowed to fish wherever they for as many fish as desired. But all the little peons, peasants if you will, will be stuck unable to fish. Welcome to the future.
No, it hasn’t been passed yet. It’s not guaranteed that it ever will be passed. Of course the President won’t exactly be popular if he did sign such an executive order so it wouldn’t mind that much if he did. It’s his presidency to lose after all. If he wants to do so then he an do so. Lose that is.
Okay, with that I think I’m going to bed.