I had an interview that had me nervous, in a good way, when I woke up yesterday.  I try really hard to have my resume reflect all that I have done.  Most of the time I know that I am one of the most technically adept people in a given room.  Though I am pretty humble and not cockey about it.  Yesterday I had an interview with a group of people that contribute to a really cool Sys Admin tool called Puppet written in Ruby.  Some times I can kick my self for missing projects like this.  Anyhow, this group is on top of their game and really know their stuff.  The job is one that I can totally do and grow with.

After the interview I was off to the old hood to visit RevPhill.  It was great catching up with him and he gave me a piece of great advice to answer friends questions about my past year… make a Zine and carry copies with you.  This is brilliant.

Then it was off to get some post interview thank you cards… but I just could not send some lame piece of paper that essentially is a reminder of my name… I would not want to be treated like that.  So for the same price of cards I found a cool tattoo book and sent that instead.  Which was had a cool serendipitous outcome as at the Main postoffice I ran into a campaign volunteer who was kind enough last year to drive me home after I had about 5 too many beers.  I love how Portland is small like that.

So today my goal is to clean the kitchen (which needs it bad), then fill the green yard debris bin and get the trash to the curb… my rewards shale be outline my Zine, write a tiny rails App and install play with puppet on some VM’s… I guess I could update wordpress as well.  I am also digging this Sci-Fi book that I got for $1.00 from Powells called Salt.

UPDATE: Amazing how much time CLEAR tech support takes trying to get a static IP.

Categories: Puppet, Ruby, SciFi
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Sunday I had the pleasure of having a great dinner with Karin Hansen and her husband Tom Potter.  The made special veggy food for me that was so good.  We talked about our love for eastern Oregon and concerns for Portland.  I learned so much from that meal.  Not to mention that I got to talk about how cool District 9 was when I saw it at the Avalon last week.

Tonight Mary and I were in the glass studio working things out.  She was doing art and has a piece in the kiln right now.  I got to zone out and cut glass while listening to a Screeching Weasel CD I slipped on her Ipod.

In the realm of Hulu (as we do not have cable)… I was really stoked to see the new Legend of the Seeker.  I was really impressed and entertained with last season, not to mention that I kinda relate.

Not to mention that WWeek just posted RandyLand part II!

Categories: Music, Portland politics, SciFi
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