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August 14, 2005

If you haven’t heard, the latest version of the windows operating system has been given a name (other than its code name: Longhorn)… “Windows Vista” stupid if you ask me, but no one consulted me on the name so I guess were all stuck with it.

ANYWAY, this “Windows Vista” was released in beta about a half a month ago an I JUST got a copy of it. What does beta mean you ask? it means that the release is not complete and is most likely still very buggy. Well regardless of that, I got it running and I’ve been playing with it all day (learning the new layout and trying to break it just so I can fix it)
after I got bored with that I made a South Park-ish cartoon of me and Jenn (boredom drives me to do pointless things like this)

(For your reference, in case your stupid, she’s on the left and I’m on the right)
a job: finding IT work is impossible, despite my hardest efforts to find a job relating to computers, I have failed horribly. In the past two weeks I have expanded my search for a good job statewide including large bordering cities such as Fargo, Grand Forks, Sioux Falls, and Superior but excluding the metropolitan area (because it sucks and I’m not going to consider the cities until I get rejected from every other employer in the state). So far, no luck. It turns out that as far as posted IT jobs go, Duluth is second only to the Metro area. In all the time I have spent applying & following up on job listings, only TWO have lead to Interviews, this pisses me off more than anything. I spend at LEAST an hour on every application I submit (good handwriting, proper grammar… all that crap) and only TWO of these companies felt I was worth contacting, what’s more, at both of these companies I had people on the inside pulling strings to get me an interview. Just thinking about it all makes me so angry I could spit fire, I mean I’m good at what I do, I’m damn good at what I do. Before I left Potlatch at least 75% of the people I worked with told me (without me asking) that I could use them as a reference, and I’m confident that if a future employer called ANYONE at the plant I’d get a good review, but what good is that IF THEY NEVER CALL, never even give me a chance =(

While I’ve been looking for work I’ve been temping for Kelly Services, doing the most awful things you could think of. I stuffed dead animals in boxes to send to rich people, I counted stock at Gordy’s Foods (that’s right, they had me ride all the way to Grand Rapids just to count stock), I fed laundry through an industrial Ironing machine, the list goes on and on. Seems like such a waste when I know there’s computers out there in desperate need of service. Tomorrow I’ll be starting at Cirrus Design as… an assembler of course. the good thing about this job is, I can stay there until I find a computer related job and I’ll be making as much as I was when I was an Intern at Potlatch, so its not as big of a blow as all the other temp work they had me doing. Another thing about Cirrus is, that they will be expanding their operations sometime and will no doubt need more IT staff, and that could be a good thing because they give applicants that already work for them priority. But I’m not putting much of any hope on that because this expansion of operations might not happen for another five years. I don’t know, Just writing all this has aggravated me so much, I just need to stop. so, um, yea, I’m done now.

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