12/20/13

I am beginning to have a bad feeling about the job interview last week.  I haven’t heard a single thing about it, either way.  I guess I should be thinking along the lines of “No news is good news,” but I can't help thinking I must have screwed up somehow.  Did I say the wrong thing when asked about “diversity”?  Did I omit something in my application?  Did I accidentally “snub” the woman who would be my boss when I was so busy the next day setting up for the CEO’s meeting that I didn’t really talk to her?  Should I have said “Yes, I have worked for a railroad in the past,” referring to the job I currently hold even though I am not employed directly by the railroad?  Have I talked about it too much and implied some impropriety in the posting/application process?  Or am I just being paranoid and haven’t given them enough time to do all the due diligence before offering me the position?  I just don’t know.  Now, this may sound like I am freaking out about this but… well, if it happens it happens.  I think I'd like to have the job, I know I'd like to work for the railroad and do NOT want to keep doing exactly what I'm doing now, but is that the job I really want?  I probably should have paid my $1.00 “Gullibility Tax” the other day and bought a lottery ticket… but I didn’t.  I still haven’t been struck by lightning twice so I'm not convinced that my odds would be all that much better by buying a ticket.  I'm not going to go off on a wistful tangent about what I'd do if I did win the lottery, since I don’t play it, except to say that John and Larry would both be set as well… were I to do so.  I'd open a shop where we would buy, restovate, and sell old Japanese cars… and other countries as well I'm sure, then I'd hire the two of them to come work “for” me.  Alas, it’ll never happen.  Ok, I've now been to lunch with Larry and the temperature is dropping like a stone out there.  When I came in this morning it was warm enough to ditch the jacket before even getting in the car.  Now I have it on… well, not RIGHT NOW because I'm inside, but when I go out… sort of thing.  So, the other night I stayed until 1900 h to make sure the new conference room was working properly for a meeting the next day.  With that and the extra half hour I leave on the table every other day, I could go home right now and still have my forty hours for the week.  I won't do that because sure as I did they would call at 1530 h to ask me to do something and I'd have to confess that I'd left the campus unattended.  That wouldn’t look good for the prospect of that job I'm obviously not going to get.  Feh, now I'm upset about that again.  I'd just about let it slip my mind.  Well, we’ll see what happens I guess.  As for other stuff, I may or may not have mentioned that my sister wanted to try out my Diamondback .380 pistol to see if it would carry better than her SCCY 9mm.  She still has the DB… I don’t expect to ever get that back.  I'm thinking that I might be shopping for another Kel Tec P3AT to replace it.  I really liked the P3AT I used to have… wait, I think I may have had two in the past.  Hmm.  Anyhoo, that is what I'll be shopping for at the gun show on Sunday.  As for the shop tomorrow, I think I'm going to install the transmission cross member at the very least.  I may take one of the exhaust manifolds to the hardware store and see about bolts for the flanges and then get the down pipes flared so I can continue with the zorst fabrication.  Or I might try to finger out how I'm going to block off that last water neck on the pump.  We’ll see.  Well, lunch has kicked in and now I'm sleepy.  I think I'll call it a rant for the week.  I'll let y'all know how the weekend went if I come in to work on Monday.