Gee wilikers batman. 2 posts in one day. YES! Today just as I was about to talk to my dad via skype I received a phone call. The call was from a Colonel and somewhat scared me when I was told who it was. I DID NOTHING WRONG!!! Why was a colonel calling my house, especially at 7PM. Well it turned out to be excellent news and I am glad this officer called. He was wondering if I was still interested in a job I applied for back in March. Oh, I am definitley still interested in this job. My eyes lit up like a christmas tree when he asked me that question.
So, I have an interview next Thursday in Lansing for the job. I very much hope it goes good and that I do infact get this job. Leaving the school will be a downer, however its for bigger and better things so if I get offered the job there is a 99.999999% chance I will take it.
I have very little patience when it comes to ordering things online. It might be because of TigerDirects super awesome shipping seeing as they have a warehouse in Chicago. 99% of the time I get my orders the next day using regular shipping so I am a happy camper.
What have I bought that is making me crazy now? I bought a MacBook Pro from Apple. Thats right, I have moved to the dark side. I might consider beeing a little more patient as it says its “custom configured” but all they have to do is throw on a glossy screen instead of the anti glare screen. I have replaced laptop screens in a matter of 10 minutes (that was the first time I ever did it). I ordered at 7a.m. yesterday and had it been through TigerDirect I would already have it, or at least have the tracking number.
On the upside I did get a $200 discount for working at a K-12 school. After taxes and all that mumbo jumbo it still came out to less than $2,000. Once I recoupe some of the cost of the laptop I will be buying some mac memory from NewEgg to boost it up to 4GB of ram.
Also, I just received (about 2 minutes ago) an email saying my copy of Vista Ultimate is being shipped and should be here before May 2nd. I will probably through that on my Mac with BootCamp for those times when Windows is necessary.
National Guard: I had the first phase (of two) for my Annual Training. This is the “2 weeks a year” you hear from commercials and recruiters. I the days I was there I went through pretty much all emotions. Gladly happy was one of the predominant one. I qualified this week with the M16A2 rifle. My last four rounds was a double feed and caused me to loose those so it brought my score down a bit.
Work: This is going good. Not a whole lot is happening or planned at the moment.
Life: Its nice getting back to civilian life. This morning I was so tired I slept in a bit before going to work. I am still awaiting to see if I get an interview with the 2 government jobs in Lansing. I am hoping it happens but who knows. On Wednesday I plan on buying a MacBook Pro. WHAT!!! Yes, the lower end 15″ model. I have several reasons for doing so but “because I want one” is the main thing. I have also decided to close down FusecHosting for the time being. I am doing this because the ROI is just not enough to keep it going. This means that I will no longer be doing web hosting for anybody but myself. If you need a good web host I suggest EastSolid.com
That is all for now.
So, if you recall my past posts about HP and not returning a laptop I sent to them many months ago you will be glad to know I finally got it back. It happened while I was at my national guard annual training phase 1.
From what I was told this is what happened. An employee at HP just started taking over and was going through old cases that were left open. He noticed this one and called. I was not there so one of my coworkers took the call and talked to them. A day or so later and TA DA here is the laptop.
Last night I updated this blog to use Wordpress 2.5 . The biggest enhancements are to the administration area. However I did redo how the left navigation works. Before I had modified core wordpress files to get it to match my layout. However last night I went through and found out how to correctly do it (functions.php file in your theme directory) and rebuilt it. Now it will be much easier when upgrading to future wordpress releases.
I will be up in Grayling tomorrow through the 20th so I will have a post about that when I get back. Also, my dad is home until Tuesday! YAY! I at least get to spend time with him today then I have to leave tomorrow morning.