well, I searched on eBay and came up with this GEM.
I bought it from somebody else though, but it was only $13 with shipping. It only takes 320×240 pictures, but hopefully outdoors, they should be good enough to post on the blog… i hope. Otherwise I wasted thirteen dollars.
well, i can’t believe it, but i actually managed to hand in 10 work applications to barnes and noble. my hand was cramping up so bad from writting all of them out. i’m also applying to borders, but their app is online, and 37 pages of personal, info gathering questions. it takes me, on average, an hour per store app since they don’t have a inter-store database. i’m hoping this works before i just settle for an office admin job.
yesterday was super fun. several of the stores i applied to were in greenwhich village so we got to walk around there for a while. we *really* liked it! we would love to live there, too, if it weren’t so outageously expensive. for the same price as what we’re paying now, we could be living in a studio in manhattan. a crummy studio. hm…we’ll see when our lease runs up next year. 😉
well, i’m off to eat dinner. today i made a raw ‘turkey stuffing’ and raw carob fudge. oh, if anybody is interested (yeah i know, prolly not) here’s some raw food sites: alissa cohen, raw guru, and raw food talk.
Candice and I took Jabba to visit ‘the pack’ at Lorrie’s house today. I think he gets bored at our house sometimes, so it’s good for him to get out and do some serious playing and socializing with other dogs. Today, there were five of them romping around the place. Candice and I then took off and went on a tour of Manhatten by train and foot, and fought our way through sight-seers crowding the streets. It was a fun day. We probably ended up walking about 5 miles or so… it’s 1 mile to/from our house just to get to the subway. One thing I wish I had and will probably end up getting soon is some cheap-o digital camera that takes 320×240 or 640×480 resolution pictures (so they don’t need to be resized for the web.) And, then I wouldn’t have to worry about losing it (’cause they’re like 20 to 30 bucks.) There are so many interesting things to see here, and I wish we could put more pics up on the blog, but we’ve been too lazy lately.
I got my first job offer today. It’s for a pretty small company (which I actually like better than working for a huge one.) I have another interview on Friday, and we’ll see how that one goes, but I really like the company that gave me the offer today. If I don’t find anything else by next week, I’m going to take it. The job involves supporting their network and doing face-to-face technical support (which is way better than phone support in my opinion.)
In other news, I heard from Kit yesterday. I was in Staples buying heavy (and expensive) paper for resumes when I got a call from him telling me that he was in New York (JFK airport to be more specific.) Unfortunately, there was no time to go see them or do anything with them, but I’m glad that they made it back safely from their honeymoon. They sure picked the right time to fly though ’cause if it had been a day earlier, they would have been caught up in a huge thunderstorm.
In 5 more days, Jabba will have his first birthday so today we went to the pet store and bought him his first batch of adult food and a good selection of new toys for him to play with (but not until his birthday!) Candice is going to make him a liver flavored cake and decorate it and want to get a little hat. I’m sure there will be pictures too.
Candice and I had a pretty busy day today. We did some laundry in the morning… actually, we washed and dried every towel in the entire house (Don’t ask.) Then, we had lunch and got ready to go into town. We took the subway to Manhatten and got some super cotton paper to print our resumes on, and then went to H&M (department store) to get some clothes. H&M is actually growing on me. The first time we went there I was tired and in a bad mood, so I hated the atmosphere there, but this time I didn’t find it to be so bad. Poor Jabba was really hungry by the time we got back, but he’s such a good puppy–no accidents in the house!
Scientists invent pee-powered battery | The Register
hmm.. couldn’t pass this one up. Where do these people come up with these things? Hmm.. let’s get together and brainstorm for new power source ideas. OK. Any thoughts? Well, apparently somebody thought this was a good idea… And, of course, due to key-word association, a link at the bottom of that page leads you to this gem: Man urinates his way out of avalanche. yee-hah.
Well, today is quite a different day than yesterday. It’s overcast and about 75 degrees out–very nice. Apparently, thousands of people are without power over here in the northeast because of the massive thunderstorms yesterday. We live about 8 blocks from a huge powerplant and so I don’t think we’ll lose power anytime soon, thankfully. But just in case, we have our UPS battery backups, flashlights, and candles ready. Today, now that the storm has passed, we’re going to continue on our trip downtown for some errands–fighting our way through tourists and business people on the streets of Manhatten.
The heat index here right now (7:30pm) is about 105 degrees (temp+humidity)–but the funny thing is, there’s a thunderstorm outside. Rain, thunder & lightening, the whole bit. Candice and I were going to go downtown today, but we decided to stay in and ordered ourselves a pizza for dinner. We haven’t had much time to eat out or go do many fun things since we’ve been here because we’ve been trying to put our house together and looking for work. Things are coming along, but we’re still waiting for a couple of our boxes to come from California. Right now for entertainment we watch DVDs on the laptop. We’re looking to buy a small TV from someone on craigslist pretty soon so we can watch some shows. ::KA-KRRAAASH–BBOOOOOMMM:: Sorry, that was just the thunder outside. This weather is so bizarre.