Questing

Its just the last sliver of March. Time has been moving very quickly.
So, I’ve just completed my first week at RotoZip.
They sell really neat tools for craft and construction work. I had tool training on Friday, got to go out to the
shop and actually use one on wood, Plexiglas and cut bolts of with their ZipMate attachment.


I’m their new web developer, and boy do I have my work cut out. I spent most of my first week installing the software I’ll
need to do all sorts of fun things for the site, and also organizing the site, well planning the organization.


It’s exciting to have so much to do, and be given a good measure of freedom so far.


I think my future is looking up. Carlo’s too, he got a new job where he’s learning some really great sales techniques. It’s a big
enough challenge to, so we’re good all over.



More later, just wanted to tell you all quickly, that things went really well my first week, and where I was, because of the
volume of questions (hah) I had received. (hi Frank, hi Ace!)

I start my new job tomorrow. What? You thought I just started a new job 3 weeks ago? Well, you’re right on that account. I realized very quickly that the place in the dells, was not the job for me. Actually realized that it’s not really the job for anyone, let alone the people who are still there, poor people, to have to work under those conditions.



So, I’ll be starting a new job tomorrow, I am cautiously excited, and also nervous. Understandable emotions, but still a bit frazzling. I’m excited because it seems like the new place really needs me, needs someone to revamp their page, and likes to hire the ‘perfect people’ for the job, and thought I fit their bill. In every dealing I’ve had with them thus far they have demonstrated their knowledge of need for the job, even to the point of realizing they need to hire someone(else) to do their vast amounts of database work. They have also shown thus far that they don’t plan on taking advantage of me. Plus, their building is very well kept, and clean.



I know everything will be fine, and a good deal of tomorrow will be filled with paperwork, setting up my desk, meeting people, learning about the company. I guess I just have pre-first day jitters.


Wish me luck!


Hope you all have a good week.

So… The title of Saturday’s entry was going to be Quixotic Endeavour .
And it’s true that Carlo and I had a great Friday night at the civic center, seeing
an awesome performance of Man of La Mancha. (a musical based on Don Quixote) There’s no way I could have passed up seeing such a Quixotic show. It was beautiful, very well done, and a lot funnier than my audio CD makes it sound. It was all done with basically one backdrop, and a lot of cool lighting, and a really neat idea, it was basically a play within a play, with an extra play thrown in there. (well musical, but
you understand.)



And I was going to burble some excited paragraphs about how much fun it was, and how much I wished you could have come, and those things being true… but. well, we spent our Saturday in a completely different way.



Saturday morning, woke up, got ready to go out for errands, walked down to the car. (the new neon R/T we got a week and a half ago) Carlo had to point it out, but there, all over the car, was glass. Glass on the sunroof, Glass on the wipers, glass on the seat, and no glass in the passenger side window.


So many emotions, so angry, so frustrated, so in tears. And then I remember, I had also left my jewelry bag in the the glove box… ugh. Of course it was gone. And yes, it should have never been there, but, sigh.


I don’t have much jewelry, and only a couple things in it really had any worth to me, things Carlo gave me for my birthday. Overall nothing even added up to the deductible. They also took an empty CD case that was in the glove box. (the CD is still in the CD player), and a bit later we noticed they took everything out of the trunk. The trunk had a box of empty gaming boxes, a box of toy models that Carlo had put together in his youth, and some miscellaneous pictures of his dad, and some other things Carlo’s mom was cleaning out of her basement.


It just make any sense, the car was sitting out underneath a streetlamp, out in front of our apartment. We live in a nice neighborhood, I guess it can happen anywhere. Sure doesn’t make you feel safe though. We’re happy the robbers overlooked some other things, camouflaged by a cubs food bag. (mostly stuff just transfered from the Trans am we traded in) And we’re not quite sure what they’ll do with the stuff they got, which was, mostly just sentimental in value.


We spent the whole day calling the police, the apartment complex, my insurance guy, and trying to get the window fixed.

We actually made an appointment for a place across town, but when we got there no one was around. I had to sit in the back seat, all bundled up, and it was still really cold with the wind whipping through the broken window. I was not happy I had to ride back like that. Glass places are flakey. I actually am waiting right now for a guy to finish working on my window, as we speak. When the first place was a bust, Carlo made an appointment for some guy to come out between 7-8 this morning. I get a phone call at 7:45, to make an appointment! Great… Thankfully the girl sent someone over, and he should be done sometime soon. If I stand up I can see him working on my car door.


All in all, an unpleasant ordeal


We feel better today, but Saturday we were feeling really vulnerable.

Missed yesterday’s update, while it was still yesterday.. Oh well, more on a very eventful weekend, later today.

A little more driving practice, I’m doing so much better after my second set of learning how to drive a manual. I was able to get into first gear without stalling the car all except twice today. Yah, I can drive my car, heh. It’s a lot of fun to drive too.


Update on the Cell phone form. With the help of my friend Brian, who actually works with Verizon (he helps install cables), The Cell Love form, works now, it will notify me a very short time.(my test got about 5 seconds from hitting send, to hearing phone beep) yah for technology!!!


So, yeah, feel free to drop me notes, when you swing by, to brighten my day. I sure get a kick out of getting connected to people.


I want to thank Gurt, and JimW, for being the first two people to officially use the Quixphone through the message page. You two are sweeties! They’re having all the fun! Join in!