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Apr. 27th, 2004 05:55 pmFirst off, I have a new job. I'm again working for Volt, doing e-mail support for... Well, my contract stipulates I cannot say. Some call them The Empire. Some place a normative judgement on what kind of Empire they are. Me, I just like to call them: The Jackal The Client.
{yes, that was a west wing joke that just flew by. shoot me now.}
This means I suddenly have access to a bunch of things I'd missed, sometimes without even realizing it. A cheaper cafeteria. Factiva. Free MCP testing. The Client's Library. You know, stuff.
The contract is for a year (unless they change their mind, which they can do on a moment's notice). There's a slight temp-to-perm buzz, but then, I heard that last time, too. So... I'll believe it when I see it. Meanwhile, I'm hoping to just take advtange and get my MCDBA and MCSE certs out of it.
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In other news, a part-time-ish job I've been slowly developing has been being a professional DJ for Pro DJs. It's run by a jock from Mix-92.5 here in Seattle, D.K. Erickson, and tends to do weddings, school dances, parties, corporate events, etc.
Saturday I did my first solo gig, having been to two training things leading up to it. It was the wedding of Brooke and Dario Rojas, held at Lord Hill Farms. It was a very religious group, it seems, so the "Lord" in "Lord Hill" is like, you know, The Lord.
Even so, it was pretty fun, even if there were two or three panic cell calls to D.K. ("Hey, D.K.... I only have one power cord for the two speakers -- now what?" Answer: Wing it, Daddy-O.) But after the clear air turbulance at the start, I mostly settled into my groove. At the end I had to go up to the groom, Dario, just to check in how well I'd done because... Remember the religious angle? Seems this group doesn't dance. Tough to judge feedback, at that point.
I'm not expecting to go great guns on this gig, if for no other reason than my new schedule with The Client: Wed-Sat, 7AM-6PM. That means three-day-weekends, true, but it also means Sunday is the only day off I have in common with Ulrika for the duration. It also makes it tough to make a 7PM gig in Tacoma, say, on a Saturday night.
So, call it one-and-a-quarter jobs. Beats the alternative. :)
{yes, that was a west wing joke that just flew by. shoot me now.}
This means I suddenly have access to a bunch of things I'd missed, sometimes without even realizing it. A cheaper cafeteria. Factiva. Free MCP testing. The Client's Library. You know, stuff.
The contract is for a year (unless they change their mind, which they can do on a moment's notice). There's a slight temp-to-perm buzz, but then, I heard that last time, too. So... I'll believe it when I see it. Meanwhile, I'm hoping to just take advtange and get my MCDBA and MCSE certs out of it.
*^*^*
In other news, a part-time-ish job I've been slowly developing has been being a professional DJ for Pro DJs. It's run by a jock from Mix-92.5 here in Seattle, D.K. Erickson, and tends to do weddings, school dances, parties, corporate events, etc.
Saturday I did my first solo gig, having been to two training things leading up to it. It was the wedding of Brooke and Dario Rojas, held at Lord Hill Farms. It was a very religious group, it seems, so the "Lord" in "Lord Hill" is like, you know, The Lord.
Even so, it was pretty fun, even if there were two or three panic cell calls to D.K. ("Hey, D.K.... I only have one power cord for the two speakers -- now what?" Answer: Wing it, Daddy-O.) But after the clear air turbulance at the start, I mostly settled into my groove. At the end I had to go up to the groom, Dario, just to check in how well I'd done because... Remember the religious angle? Seems this group doesn't dance. Tough to judge feedback, at that point.
I'm not expecting to go great guns on this gig, if for no other reason than my new schedule with The Client: Wed-Sat, 7AM-6PM. That means three-day-weekends, true, but it also means Sunday is the only day off I have in common with Ulrika for the duration. It also makes it tough to make a 7PM gig in Tacoma, say, on a Saturday night.
So, call it one-and-a-quarter jobs. Beats the alternative. :)
