…snakelike. The Vampire Teeth are in and the more I look at the car with them on, the more I think it looks like a snake. So I guess I’ll toss out the Blood Bank background idea and start looking for a Reptile Zoo.
Now that is more like the team I know. The FRS were swept out of post-season play, three games to none tonight by the Chicago White Sox. At least they didn’t lose to the Yankees.
I said way back in June that I would quit complaining about the erratic reception of WEEI on MLB.com and I kept my word, but now that the season’s over…I’ve got nothing bad to say. Sometime not too long after the All Star Game the internet broadcasts settled down, loosing all the annoying cut outs and became listenable again. I guess that means I’ll be signing up for next year broadcasts. When I’ll get treated to 162 ups and downs on the roller coaster life of a Red Sox fan.
Nope, just moving back into the old place, with the new furniture. Reclaimed the old name too.
Added a Mr. Fletcher’s Ride Photo Gallery and placed links to all the galleries in the sidebar for your ease. Don’t confuse the Miata Photo Gallery with the category Miata Photos, the Gallery will contain my favorite Miata shots, while the category will be populated with the everyday Miata pictures.
So shouted the headline the other day in the local paper. I wondered who. Did Madonna tire of the English countryside? Was P Diddy bringing his fleet of blinged Diet Pepsi trucks to town? Nope. The former lead singer of ’60s rock group The Youngbloods and his wife are going to build a 5,000 sq ft cottage in Aiken’s Historic District adjoining Hitchcock Woods. Turns out that Jesse Colin Young married an Aiken native some 18 years ago and the family (they have two kids) wants a nice place to settle in. Even though they plan on living in Aiken full time, they are keeping the house in Hawaii.
Sorry Will, but you might need change your link to this site – again. Gonna put this blog back in the root of mr-miata.net. 9 steps and that’s it.
Tomorrow is the monthly MMC meeting, so I probably won’t have time then, maybe Friday.
They kind of made the decision easy for me as I got a rejection letter in the mail today. Not that it was unexpected, I totally blew the “personality” side of the interview. They had 7 questions that outlined real life scenarios and required an answer using cause, effect and solution. I didn’t expect something like that and wasn’t really prepared. Plus essay tests were always the hardest for me, I have a hard time coming up with improv answers that are cohesive and intelligent. It actually took me until question #4 before I could give them any sort of answer and it was personal life based and lame. I struggled mightily on the next couple, looped back through to the beginning, but still totally refused, no just plead a case, that I couldn’t come up with an example for one question and left it blank.
I did alright on the “technical” side, but that was to be expected. They were more knowledged based, almost multiple choice type questions on AutoCAD and drawings. Plus I felt more at ease with my inquisitors as they were engineers not the previous HR folks.
The one on one with the department manager was a toss up, we chatted, I gave answers, I looked in him in the eye. I don’t now if it mattered, but I didn’t ask too many questions. I could get a gist of the job from listening and it was doable, there were a lot of new things to learn, but was more of a lateral move than a giant step up.
Even if they had called back, I’m sure I wouldn’t have taken the job anyway. I make pretty good money now and some how I don’t see them offering even that much money for that level of a position. And even with the better benefits offered I would have wanted more cash to jump ship.
I called it yesterday, “they will probably win by a closer score in game 2.” The White Sox did just that tonight, 5-4 over the FRS.
Now if I can only be right about the second part of the prediction, “Once the FRS are down two…sweep the final three games to advance.”