Author: jaysolo
Happy Birthday
To my brother’s first ex-wife’s sister Amy.
Silly Henry
He is our mail out the so I am using voice dictation to try to work which of course is interesting as you can see if I don’t edit this.
I said I am trying to work actually that’s not what I said I said he is on my lap not he is our mail out.
Anyway I get the last two posts for birthdays using this does voice dictation, which I have to do it in notepad and paste into W.Blogger because this does voice dictation won’t work with anything that’s alien lay out and not based on Internet explorer and stuff because Microsoft is never Microsoft center in a way that makes things difficult for things that are competition.
Everything above is exactly as I spoke it, including this sentence.
Even as honey pulls out my face and trace Two-tone whiskers out at least he is leaving the microphone on what so I could theoretically be saying stuff that I could paste into my resume if I can ping state with him like climbing up one of my hat money had not my hat and. I said my had my head not my hat. C some things it just doesn’t get. Like they had and had and hat thing they said had and had had had a.
The thing I was having trouble with last I may use this was the warts might dog and Doc D were it’s D were its words that start with the letter D obviously vista dictation needs some work.
A gay lets copy and posed as I said OK not a gay. Nah lets copy-and-paste this into W.blog are and publish it and you got.
Happy Birthday
To former colleague Abel Fontes.
Happy Birthday
To former colleague Buddy West.
Happy Birthday
To apparently former blogger Citizen Smash.
Peeking Sadie
Candidate Matching Quiz
This is one of those cool ones that you setup with what issues matter most to you first, then answer in scales to return percentage match comparisons. It will tell you how you compare with McCain, Nader and Obama, which for me was 72, 39 and 32 percent respectively. Then you can select people who are no longer running from a list, which it seems to fill from most to least matched, and see how they compare if you’d like. My highest was Fred Thompson, at 79%, and lowest was Joe Biden, at 31%.
Take the quiz at Glassbooth.
Today
Once again, no birthdays today. Or even birthdats todat. Apparently I can’t type, at least not on that part of the qwerty. Or is it qweryt? Anyway…
I worked on the resume with partial usefulness yesterday, but I have an awful time working in a strange place, on a strange computer, in a “do this, only this, in this relatively small block of time” when it comes to that sort of thing. Still, I examined what I already have more closely than before. Basically I tend to write it and walk away, barely able to look at it again. Which is why on an actual read I am sometimes shocked to realize how good it is, or that I already thought of the aspects I am thinking in retrospect I ought have included or phrased thus and so.
Which means that perhaps less change or variation is in order than I had thought.
The big problem is keyword bingo by resume stalkers. There is no nuance. If I mention Language X because I dabbled in it and having a passing exposure that makes me better rounded or gives me a slight leg up on learning it for real, a keyword harvester might flag me for a prospective senior programmer in Language X. No subtlety.
Where was I?
So I guess I need to change the keywords, including to remove some that are obsolete, there mainly to say “I’m a bigger geek than anyone else you could hire and have dealt with things you never heard of since you were just a pup” to prospective employers.
I eventually realized that in my original I could change the blurb at the top and not have to change much else to emphasize what I might want to do.
I would like to change it to move the skills keywords and create sections that are technical and otherwise, which would be another place to modify the focus. That’s what I need to work on today. Which means as soon as I open a copy of the resume to edit, the kids will go absolutely insane. They’re being unnaturally good now, for the most part. Oops, I mentioned them and here one comes…
Besides that, I need to catch the dishes back up, including moving the crockpot from the soaking to the washed category. Do some other cleaning. At the very least get to a store for toilet paper, maybe after Deb gets home, but today or tomorrow it’s time for a big grocery run to Wal-Mart. That might be today with the kids, which could be fun. If not, tomorrow.
I still need to price parts toward finishing my niece’s computer, and figure out how I am going to juggle the obtaining of money and ordering of same.
Alongside improving the resume, I need to fix up my LinkedIn profile and work on the rest of the marketing plan. All of this is the priority. Which is why I am inclined to pursue it once I am done with this post (which seems like a diversion but helps me organize and picture what’s to be done, while keeping up the blog content)… well, after I feed the kids before they realize they are starving.
I have a nice, easy supper planned, anyway. Even if it’s not easy, it’s nice to know this early what I will make.
Here goes lunch and then see what I can do…
Since There Are No Birthdays…
Here’s a quick post of this and that while I guzzle some coffee.
Today I am hitting the road to work on the resume again at a secure, undisclosed location where I can plug in the laptop and be offline and mostly alone. Looks like maybe I’ll get my delayed haircut on the way. It’s either that or leave the kids with my mother or sister, or bring someone with me to supervise them, on another day.
It has to be done now, duh, and even at that there’s no telling how I will keep a couple things paid in the next couple weeks. At least that’s a matter of being a couple hundred shy, not really insane amounts.
Speaking of fundraising, I should have done something like Chris Muir did, offering levels of tech support type of answers or such for donations.
I also have to work on my contacts/networking list and presentation. I started creating a list in July as part of this plan, with a core of my exported LinkedIn connections, supplemented by people who aren’t in LinkedIn. Earlier this year I started cleaning up my e-mail address book with an eye to that, but some of that ended up purged entirely and in spreadsheets, waiting to be organized. This will be in waves anyway, just don’t want to send duplicates. The audiences vary. Part of the plan was not just to say “hey, need job” but to say “hey, available for itinerant micro-work of these types.” Itinerant? Whatever the word would be.
So hey, if you know me enough that I have your e-mail address, don’t be surprised when you receive something like that.
I’ve been working on my niece’s computer, which appears only to have had the power supply fried. Backed up the data from it in case, once I had it going. I miss having spare power supplies as replacement parts. Used to keep some ahead in my office because those blowing in the big client’s computers was such a common thing. That’ll wait, for today, and I’ll have to price power supplies (and a secondary hard drive) this week to order. So far, there’s been none of the odd behavior that might mean things surged past the power supply and left damage.
I’m sure there was more, but I can’t think of it and need to get moving. Perhaps I’ll post a picture too.
Ah, Henry. He’s been doing nicely. He tasted ketchup last night and was fine. Apparently he took it upon himself to taste relish later, by dumping Sadie’s plate off the table. He eats small amounts of all beef hot dogs and is fine with them. He didn’t eat barbecue shredded pork with us, just the unsauced version, but he did have beef and gravy I made that was very strongly flavored. Bay leaf, celery and such. He eats but isn’t enthusiastic about canned pineapple in heavy syrup. He’d eat a whole can of pears himself if we’d let him. Ketchup was the big thing that’s new. He can eat mayo, too, but apparently he can’t get it on his skin. He not only thinks scrambled eggs are the devil, even though he can have eggs, he also was not fooled by eggs hidden in French toast. He loves toast and bread, but scorned French toast, which came out almost custard tasting and was delicious. Funny.
Valerie Modeling
Happy Birthday
To blogger Rocket Jones, who is 49 today.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Boudicca.
Little Monster
Part of it may be the contrast, but Henry’s skin looks unusually clear in this one. This is about as good as it gets, and while it’s still up and down, he seems to have been on a trajectory of generally better and generally less sensitive. It’s also increasingly clear there is a contact sensitivity issue far more than imgestion allergy issues. The salicylate thing has been obvious, and maybe even goes with the skin issues, but that’s not all of it and that’s what seems to have improved especially. Oops, poppy diaper and close enough so I’ll post and go…
Happy Birthday
To blogger Starling David Hunter.
This morning Henry woke up dry. I went to change him and suspected as much. On confirming it, I asked if he wanted to use the potty, sat him on Sadie’s, and he let loose as if he’s always been doing it that way. Go Henry!
Happy Birthday
To former blogger Leanne.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Anil Dash.
Happy Birthday
To former blogger Trey Givens, who is 31 today.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Flibbertigibbet, who is 31 today.