3/21/14

Ok, I'm in a slightly better mood today.  I found a job posting I think I like the looks of and applied for it.  I “know” the person doing the hiring, though that didn’t help with the last posting for which I applied, and think I might go “bump into” him later today.  “Oh, hey!  How’s it going?  Great, great.  I hear you have a job posting up on the… blah blah blah” and we’ll become best buddies and he’ll hire me on the spot.  Yeah, I know it won't go down like that, but it can't hurt to have some face-time with the potential new boss.  In fact, I think I might go have a look at some equipment in the East Office Building right quick, since I haven’t had a chance to do any preventative maintenance on it in a while.  Wink, wink.  Nudge, nudge.  Know whut I mean?  Know whut I mean?  A wink’s as good as a nudge to a blind bat, eh?  I'll be back later.  Well, it wasn’t quite like I predicted but very similar… in jest of course.  I walked up to the dude doing the hiring and ‘splained that I'd seen the posting.  He said, “Cool, have a seat and let’s get started!”  We laughed and he sent me over to a cube so one of the guys actually doing the job could show me the ropes.  It is a bit daunting but I think I could get into the swing of it.  The biggest suck is that it is 12-hour rotating shifts, with weekends and holidays needing coverage.  The pay would be phenomenal though!  And it is a railroad job.  After “shadowing” the guy in his cube for a bit, I went back to the hirer, said I was not scared off, and asked him to please consider my resume.  I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic.  We’ll see.  Now I am going to test myself to see if I can type forty words per minute.  I think I can do it.  I am not 100% sure of that fact though.  We will have to wait and see.  If I could stop myself from going back and editing as I type, I might have…  Ok, that was 55 wpm if we count all of the “perpendicular pronouns.”  Without the word “I,” it is 47 wpm.  I think I'm in with a shot!  Damn, I want this job.  Well, I'm scared shitless of the amount of computer stuff I'd need to learn, but it is at least something somewhat interesting and useful to the railroad business.  All of the A/V crap I'd need to learn to stay relevant in my current job, a) interests me not in the least and 2) is just window dressing and useless showmanship once all is said and done.  Yeah, I want on with the railroad in the operations side of things and this is a good “foot in the door.”  Well, we’ll see.  As for other things, I'm supposed to meet a couple different guys about the Mini in the morning.  I have an 0815, an 0900-1000, and a 1030-1100 scheduled.  Hopefully one of them will bring a trailer and a load of cash.  It is a bit inconvenient that this is an “off week” for John because I'd feel better with him around to keep me from taking a low-ball offer… and to do all the talking, sort of thing.  Oh well, that part is out of my hands.  I'll have the 9mm if things get ugly at least.  And by “at least” I also mean that I'll probably have the .380 Bersa Thunder and the Taurus .38 Special revolver on my person as well… with a 7.62x39 or 12 gauge Saiga, or both, loaded, in Fiona's trunk.  Well, we’ll see how it goes down.  And on that note, I guess I'm done talking to y'all for the week.  I'll have a report on Monday of how the Mini sale went down.  Toodles.