yes, it appear i will be working again in a few weeks... more to follow
i lied, sort of, but if you did not come back here for a few weeks, you wouldn't have noticed that nothing came until a few weeks after this entry and that is primarily because i am babbling elsewhere so here is some and here is more and if you click and read, you have the job news you were not waiting for (unless you did come back here to find out what more was to follow in which case, ooops, apologies, and thanks for your interest and patience)...
i shall update more often, especially if i know you are checking in on this record of a life... but even if noone is, it is meant to be a record of a life for me and anyone who might card anytime now or whenever so i ought to and hope to return more regularly without the distracting babble amd asides and such as this might be and simple put the daily events and thoughts and feeling about the experiences that can be recorded here to be the record of a life...
or something like that :)
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
hope it's not a broken record
this record of a life, that is... maybe that's why i am not actually jumping in a writing in this blog on a daily basis and staying over in the already flooded (and therein pretty well formed) (e)thereal with most of my daily writing... oddly, perhaps, (e)thereal was supposed to be a daily life blog with brief daily entries, something none of my other daily blogs was able to accomplish because, well, i tend to babble... i love babbling, but i figured a brief daily blog might actually be easier to read and there, actually read now and then... as you might notice if you visit, (e)thereal became a babbling blog, though the entries were somewhat shorter than previous blogs, there were many more of them, especially in recent years... so i still love babbling and the few readers who have followed me through the years (some of whom have become dear friends on and offline) apparently love babble too (or at least tolerate it)... i might have mentioned this and even linked the other blogs in a previous entry...
the life of leisure is coming to an end... the early retirement is coming to a conclusion... the extended vacation is reaching it's last days... and while softball is in gear wednesday, thursday, and twice on sundays (with practices frequently on saturdays... no word from the two friday leagues yet though), the working world is returning to the field of vision and the interview for the top job on the list (monetarily, at least) went very well last week (the vice president and i chatted for more than two and a half hours, which is usually a very good sign in an interview)... the telephone interview with human resources today was late and skimpy and redundant and i have to take some responsibility for that as i could have been more prepared to sell myself with snappy bullet points, but their hr recruiter seemed disorganized and minimally interested, sticking to the script and rushing through the interview (perhaps because she forgot - though she claimed her phones were acting up when i called a half hour after she was supposed to call me)... anyway, thursday there are a series of interviews at different sites with top level management and i am hopeful... meanwhile, resumes shall start going out daily this week cuz, as i might have said (and you might have noticed), the time for income production is quickly arriving... on the near horizon... relatively soon...
i can be quite repetitive ate times... redundant, even... hopefully this blog, if it ever actually becomes the brief daily life blog i have been toying with for years, will not be too repetitive as, even though i do love my word play, the last thing i want to do here is make a broken record of a life :)
the life of leisure is coming to an end... the early retirement is coming to a conclusion... the extended vacation is reaching it's last days... and while softball is in gear wednesday, thursday, and twice on sundays (with practices frequently on saturdays... no word from the two friday leagues yet though), the working world is returning to the field of vision and the interview for the top job on the list (monetarily, at least) went very well last week (the vice president and i chatted for more than two and a half hours, which is usually a very good sign in an interview)... the telephone interview with human resources today was late and skimpy and redundant and i have to take some responsibility for that as i could have been more prepared to sell myself with snappy bullet points, but their hr recruiter seemed disorganized and minimally interested, sticking to the script and rushing through the interview (perhaps because she forgot - though she claimed her phones were acting up when i called a half hour after she was supposed to call me)... anyway, thursday there are a series of interviews at different sites with top level management and i am hopeful... meanwhile, resumes shall start going out daily this week cuz, as i might have said (and you might have noticed), the time for income production is quickly arriving... on the near horizon... relatively soon...
i can be quite repetitive ate times... redundant, even... hopefully this blog, if it ever actually becomes the brief daily life blog i have been toying with for years, will not be too repetitive as, even though i do love my word play, the last thing i want to do here is make a broken record of a life :)
Monday, September 2, 2013
what day is it?
locally, as in this particular life you are reading about, joe camel (go ahead, look up the reference if you don't know it) is suddenly not the most popular camel in media... if you don't know who (if we agree to call a camel a who) is the most popular camel, then you must not watch tv, which is probably most of the world, but for those of us who watch tv at least occasionally (or who find new amusing and potentially classic commercials on the web), you know what i mean... but just what does this have to do with this particular record of a life?... well, the camel's famous line became the go-to tension breaking phrase for the team all through the world series and now, it is the initial unifying joke in the fantasy football league that jackson and enjoy with other friends every year... jackson, by the way, is my beautiful roommate in case i have not introduced her... and there you have some actual life recorded here in this blog...
perhaps, eventually, this will become less slapstick asides vying for yet another bad reality tv show and more direct recording of life which would likely surprise all of us, but perhaps, to get there, this sort of occasional entry beginning is what is needed (how long has this beginning going on?... is this an aside?... well, aside or not, it's been going on since i started a new phase in life by leaving a desk and job and professional life i lived for more than eleven years which would be about a year and a quarter, that's how long, for what it's worth)...
we (our sunday morning softball team, in case you were distracted by the potential aside) did well for our first world series, finishing with a 3-5 record and just a -2 run differential... we were in it all the way, that is - no game got out of hand, we were not run ruled, and right until the last inning of each game we had reasonable chances to win... our biggest loss was by four runs and that was to the team that was booted out of the winner's bracket after a protest was upheld because they had players that should have been rated higher and belonged in the C division, which is cheating if their league knew what they were doing and they (the officers of the board of their league) are supposed to in order to qualify for the world series in the first play... we met them in the consolation bracket (cuz even cheaters get to play in the consolation bracket)... most important, we had much fun (and a little drama, but then, it was the gay softball world series, after all :)
there are so many reasons i love our sunday morning team... the openness and friendliness of the gay community is just part of it... even though jackson is taking a season off, she's still and always will be part of the team... my four or five other leagues are not nearly as organized and have no year-round camaraderie or traveling tournaments or world series... they have two senior ASA umpires for every game (other leagues have either only one umpire or have kids learning how to umpire with no ASA training at all)... we have sponsors to keep costs down and the other leagues are at least three times the cost per game... but best of all, the core of the team is family (by adoption, as in we adopted each other) and the love (and practices and after-parties) makes the softball all the more fun...
and next week, the fall softball season begins and hopefully i will have all five of my leagues up and playing withing two weeks, maybe even a sixth this season... yeah, i love my softball... there's a lot more to this life i am recording than softball and in other entries i'll likely babble on a bit about other stuff, but when i am asked what days is it, it's hump day once a week, but every day is a good day for softball :)
perhaps, eventually, this will become less slapstick asides vying for yet another bad reality tv show and more direct recording of life which would likely surprise all of us, but perhaps, to get there, this sort of occasional entry beginning is what is needed (how long has this beginning going on?... is this an aside?... well, aside or not, it's been going on since i started a new phase in life by leaving a desk and job and professional life i lived for more than eleven years which would be about a year and a quarter, that's how long, for what it's worth)...
we (our sunday morning softball team, in case you were distracted by the potential aside) did well for our first world series, finishing with a 3-5 record and just a -2 run differential... we were in it all the way, that is - no game got out of hand, we were not run ruled, and right until the last inning of each game we had reasonable chances to win... our biggest loss was by four runs and that was to the team that was booted out of the winner's bracket after a protest was upheld because they had players that should have been rated higher and belonged in the C division, which is cheating if their league knew what they were doing and they (the officers of the board of their league) are supposed to in order to qualify for the world series in the first play... we met them in the consolation bracket (cuz even cheaters get to play in the consolation bracket)... most important, we had much fun (and a little drama, but then, it was the gay softball world series, after all :)
there are so many reasons i love our sunday morning team... the openness and friendliness of the gay community is just part of it... even though jackson is taking a season off, she's still and always will be part of the team... my four or five other leagues are not nearly as organized and have no year-round camaraderie or traveling tournaments or world series... they have two senior ASA umpires for every game (other leagues have either only one umpire or have kids learning how to umpire with no ASA training at all)... we have sponsors to keep costs down and the other leagues are at least three times the cost per game... but best of all, the core of the team is family (by adoption, as in we adopted each other) and the love (and practices and after-parties) makes the softball all the more fun...
and next week, the fall softball season begins and hopefully i will have all five of my leagues up and playing withing two weeks, maybe even a sixth this season... yeah, i love my softball... there's a lot more to this life i am recording than softball and in other entries i'll likely babble on a bit about other stuff, but when i am asked what days is it, it's hump day once a week, but every day is a good day for softball :)
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