TechGirl's Little Blog

When I was younger, I used to collect Rolling Stone magazine but after moving time and time again, the collection kinda started getting raggedy and eventually disappeared somewhere (along with all my vinyl albums). So, I saw this on woot the other day and said to JR "get that for me!". But I say that all the time about things I see on woot so I didn't really expect to get it. But it arrived today and is really cool! The first 40yrs of Rolling stone on DVD..every single page of every issue, ads and all. And a big collector book thingy, too!
BTW, if you don't know what Woot is, you should check it out. You can find some pretty good deals there.

This is kinda fun. I got it from Rachel.

Here are the rules:

1. Answer the survey question and then look up your answer on www.urbandictionary.com and paste one of the definitions found there along with your answer.
2. Post it on your blog and include illustrations if you like.
3. Link to the person who tagged you and tag more blogs if you feel so inclined.

Here’s mine:

1) Your name?: Lisa

One of the most popular names for a newborn girl in 1970.
Most Lisas are hot.

2) How old are you: 34

Slang for anal sex, similar to 69 or 89.
The 3 represents a butt while the 4 represents the top vie of a man holding his penis towards the butt-hole.

3) One of your friends?: Bev

Background: Derived from the life of Beverly Ardnet of Maryland, a middle aged woman who would often enter the house of another, make a sandwich, and leave without saying hello or providing compensation.

Bev: Those who admire, learn, and live by the principles of Beverly Ardnet.

To Bev: To appropriate the property of another for one's own benefit, often in the presence of the owner.

4) Where will your next vacation be?: Upper Peninsula

the most-ignored location on the map
"hey, michigan is shaped like a hand!"

5) Favorite Food?: steak

Good stuff that comes from cows.

6) Hometown? Beavercreek

it's in ohio. Nothing much happens.

7) Word to describe yourself?: redhead

An exotic woman with a fiery temper. One of the most beautiful creatures on Earth, too bad there are so little of them. Rumored to have a three times as powerful sex drive as normal women (rumored by the Germans)

8 ) Car you drive?: outback

australian, n; the bush. Remote country areas of Australia.

9) Last person you talked to on the phone?: Mom

The woman who loves you unconditionally from birth, the one who puts her kids before herself and the one who you can always count on above everyone else.

10) Your occupation?: Service Desk

Formerly known as help desk the service desk is a central point of contact between users and the IT Service Organization. So basically, they get sh*t on by thier bosses and sh*t on by the people calling in.

I tag: Bev and Diane

Happy Birthday, JR...you old fart! I love ya, baby.

I had my drug test today and I'm still waiting to hear from interview #2. I had a call for another position at an equipment sales company doing their system admin stuff but it's a little further than I want to drive.

Jo had her EEG test today and it came out fine, but they want to do one where she's being monitored for 24 hours. She'll have her head all wrapped up and will carry the monitor in a little pack around her waist. They said she'd look like a conehead. They also sent in a referral to have her evaluated by a psych. for ADD. Get this..it takes 3 months to get in to see a psych. By then, school will have started and her teacher will be bitching again. I wasn't pleased at all to hear we have to wait 3 months.

Nothing much is going on...just waiting around and hanging out with the family.

Interview #2 went really, really well this morning and I should hear back within the next couple weeks they said. Interview #1 called today and asked me when I could start there cuz they want me asap. I told them two weeks..that will give me adequate notice at The Bakery and give Interview #2 time to call or not call. Either way, I'm covered. I put in notice today at The Bakery and my last day is next Thursday since we're off on Friday.

I'm exhausted and ready for bed. It's been a long day and a crappy evening.

Interview #1 went pretty well. This is the one in Miamisburg working as a 2nd level support tech for a financial institution. The interview went really well and I actually know one of the 5 people who conducted the interview. She and I worked together at another place about 10yrs ago and she remembered me fondly. The only negative thing about it was that they told me that I was being brought in for an active directory project with a 6mo timespan. They're bringing in a bunch of contractors for the project and at the end of the 6mo, only a few would remain, basically the best of the best. I'm not sure I want to get into that situation. The reason I'm looking for a job now is because my current one is ending between now and December. Why would I put myself into the same situation?

I have my first-choice interview in the morning and I'm really well prepared for it. Hopefully I'll hear back soon from them afterwards.

My recruiter for the downtown Cincy job hasn't given me an interview date yet so who knows how that will turn out.

me

It's about time for bed and I have an interview in the morning for my 2nd choice job. My recruiter says that he'll know by the end of the day if I've been offered the job or not. I'm really at odds with myself over this one because they don't want me to give The Bakery two weeks notice. If I get this job, they want my last day to be THIS friday and, as angry as I am with The Bakery, I really don't want to do that to the people I work with. Then what if I go to my first choice interview on Tuesday and get offered that job? That is the job I would really prefer to have because it's full time, perm, with bennies. Do I tell the people Monday that I'll take the job and then tell them I changed my mind if I get offered the job I want more? Maybe I should just let my phone go to voicemail until after my interview Tuesday and I get a feel for how that interview went. I guess if they do offer me the job Monday, I should go ahead and put in my notice for Friday in case I don't get the Tuesday job. Arghhhh...at least the Tuesday job would let me give two weeks notice.

Blah. I'm going to bed.

I currently have two job leads, maybe three, that I'm pretty excited about. One is doing deskside support for a big mortgage company in town and requires traveling to different parts of the city so I'm not always stuck in the same place. I did something like that at Lexis Nexis years ago and enjoyed it. The other is for an IT Manager job for an office of 35 people where I'd be the sole IT person answering only to a supervisor in Akron. There's a LOT of responsibility with that position and it would really be something different for me. The third is just a techie admin job at the place I used to work but I don't know how realistic that is. I'm qualified for the job, but I'm not on good terms with some people there. Then again, I'm on awesome terms with some people there, too. Eh...who knows. Anyway, I should know something about the Mortgage job sometime near the end of Friday. Wish me luck..

So, tonight we finished up at my MIL's house and brought a ton of stuff home. Her house is an hour away and we made two trips tonight there and back. We had a lot of help from Gary and John with G's pickup truck. JR's ex and her husband came by and helped us get rid of a few things, too. So, tonight around 11pm we said goodbye to the house and left there for the last time. It's strange to think we'll never be back there or the kids won't go running around through the field behind her house with the dog. I guess it's an end of a really special time of our lives. We had a lot of good times out there just hanging out shootin' the shit with the old lady. And it's one of those places you can let the kids go outside and not have to worry about them. I think the next time I buy a house, I want to have some land like that where the kids and dogs can just run and run. I wish there had been a way for us to have taken over her house for our own family, but it just wasn't do-able.

Charlie/Sit, the sideways dog went to the vet this morning and they initially told me they thought he had a brain tumor but that since the MRI to confirm costs 1K, they wanted to treat him for an ear infection first and then go from there. They thought the fact that he was going bald was a separate issue. Then they took a sample of his skin cells (put tape on his skin and pulled it off) as well as a sample of the gunk in his ears and found that he had an abundance of yeast growth in both places, thus linking them two issues into one. Ergo, no brain tumor. As it is, the dog has some severe skin allergies and it escalated down into his inner ear where it's causing "head tilt" and his equilibrium is fubar. As it was explained to me, the ear is just skin even down inside, so the skin infection easily spread there. So, now I've got special shampoo for the fur, two bottles of pills, he's had a steroid shot, and I have a special solution to put in his ears, too. You'd think I went shopping at a pharmacy with all the crap I left there with. He's doing a lot better tonight..running around with the other dogs and playing and his head is even a little straighter. They said that the head tilt may not go away entirely but that his equilibrium will come back. I'm just glad it's not a tumah.

Childrens Hospital has kept Livvy another night and they're running more tests on her tomorrow. Mom said they found some muscle weakness in her arm. I'm not sure what all that means but I guess I'll find out tomorrow. Wish the little girl luck. My sister is being remarkably strong through all this. I know I'd be a nervous wreck.

Anyway...til next time...