0842L 08 July 2004

Top o' the morning to ya all

I'm without profound or perverse ideas at the moment. As I stated in my initial post, I am curious if lurid subject matter gets the most response. So far that has been my experience and while not disappointed I would enjoy more agreement or counterpoint on the other ideas posed here. Am I to assume my view of the world is not so skewed and all of you simply agree with me? It's seems unlikely...

I got a few nibbles for new job prospects this week. I need to follow up and plan to blast another salvo of resumes out this week. I guess the new trend is somthing called a CV. I should research these and create one. I loathe the hiring process. It seems such a game. When I am on the hiring end I prefer to cut to chase and hate to assess a candidate on how well they regurgitate the "how to knock em dead in an interview" phrases that all sound cliche but have become a kind of special language that only HR people speak. I'm pretty confident in my ability to assess people in a fairly short time. Invariably our HR person had a different impression than I did, keying off something the applicant said and interpreting it exactly backwards. What was a strength for a particular position was misinterpreted because the HR person didn't have a clue as to what happened in the company, outside of the HR department. I play both sides as a job seeker. I have a healthy fear for that HR person, so I include lot's of "action verbs" and temper the cheeze with as many examples of tangible results that I can for the business person.

My counter hasn't been working for the site. My farthest contact from this blog has been from Australia. I'd love to visit there someday and have heard that our cultures align in an interesting way. Being that Aussie chicks are hot, doesn't hurt either. The novelty of being from the U.S. was helpful when chatting ladies up in Europe. I wonder if that would be true downunder or if we're so much alike I'm just another bloke?

I realized today that I have picked up my guitar in few weeks. Strange how it goes in waves. I'll need a week or two of playing every day to get back in shape.

The last couple nights I've slept like hell. The soreness is gone from skiing and I did work out last night but I've been so tired lately. My routine has been, home from work, some small errand, like shoping for dinner, or a haircut, home for dinner, clean up, walk dog and then wrestle with getting online and jerking off or reading or sending resumes or getting to bed early enough to catch up. I think I'd do better in Spain. I like the idea of working the morning, heading home in the afternoon for a nap, then working late, staying out very late and sleeping in to do it all over again. I'm a night person.

Stuck in my head: Can't cha hear me knocking by the Rolling Stones from sticky fingers