Sunday, July 25

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I had a job interview Wednesday. I should have blogged this earlier, but…

I feel the interview went well, I tried to push my personality as much as possible, seeing that the previous position holder didn't deal with people well. I can deal with them. Doing the job isn't the problem. I'm probably over qualified actually. I did like that the interviewer took interest in my supervising past. I wonder what the salary is going to be. But I'm old. 5 others are being interviewed for this position. And I have to wonder about my competition.

My latest modification to my url2mail.c program was adding 0xa0 as a special character to be encoded. According to the specs, that's an unbreakable space, so I encoded it as  . Checkit it out in Mozilla 1.7 and IE 6 both render it as a regular 0x20 space on output. So why am I getting freaking titles with the 0xa0 character that I have to encode? They must be using   or   instead. Sheesh.

AC went out on the Marquis. Again. It lasted two months. Eh.

I've been getting beat up about Sparx again. It doesn't help that Sparx has sat on his ass for 6 weeks after I told him his number 1 priority was to get a job. It seems to be that way now, but I dunno. He's got some bills that he has to get paid, in less than two weeks no less. He's not going to have the money, even if he starts working Monday. He still hasn't taken care of the title and the tag to his truck, which asks the question of how the hell he's going to get to work if he can't walk there. The Cunt is now not a big factor in his life, but I'm still upset that she's still a part of it. The boy (and I do mean boy, as he might be emotionally 15 at this point in his life) will not learn, as still dealing with the Cunt, and not even looking for a job points out very well.

The_Rose has practically brought this up as a fight. A fight that I'm ready to throw at this point. If I don't get the job I just interviewed, then maybe it's time I drive up to Columbus and see what jobs I can apply for there. She can then handle Sparx as she wants, since I won't be there, and it won't be up to me to handle it. I don't think that's what she wants, but it's about the best way to handle the situation that I can think of. The_Rose "can't" (won't) deal with him, evidently thinking that I hold some sort of veto card or something.

Meanwhile, on the "lighter" side of things, I'm currently wearing shorts that are size 38. They are a little tight, but not that much. I can cinch the belt a little tighter than the shorts, so it's good. I'm still wearing a size 20 neck though. Blech! My suit is at least 3 sizes too big for me now, 6 inches or more could come off the waist. The jacket is also on the large size. I doubt that the suit could be cut down to fit me now, and still look good. The_Rose and the salesman when I bought it three years ago thought it would be good if it were on the loose side. I wanted one to fit me me then, and deal with getting larger/smaller later. The past times that I have worn, it's been too big.

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