I shouldn't be grumpy, but...

Objectively speaking more good has happened this morning than bad, but I'm still low on caffeine so I am easily irked and difficult to please. Both Mike and Elisabeth complimented me on my forest paintings. I really appreciate that. Just a tiny bit of positive encouragement can keep me going for quite some time. If this was all that came up this morning I think I would be happy. But that isn't all that happened. My server decided to act up this morning (I don't know why yet). I fucked around for nearly an hour trying to figure it out properly then simply rebooted to get it out of the way and get to work. While I am at it I got a call from a "client" who was choked that the server was down this morning. Being bitched at first thing in the morning doesn't do much for my mood on the best of days. Whatever. The application they are using is designed on a shoestring budget as a temporary stop-gap. If they don't like the service they can bite me. They are getting what they paid for and then some. Then I dragged my ass into work and here I sit in my vibrant and exciting cubicle where the first thing I am greeted with is an e-mail from some other peon in HR bitching at me for nothing of any consequence whatsoever.

So here is my message to the corporate world - fuck off until I have had my damn coffee!

Anxiously awaiting my deliverance

I'm sitting here unable to do anything because the craptastic M$ Proxy (running on oh-so-current NT4!) is fucked up again. I'll be getting my interview time for Azure at some point today. I'm afraid I have no tolerance for people that don't have a practical bone in their bodies. Banks don't make anything and by and large the people who work here reflect that. The end users have no bloody idea how anything works (and I really mean anything, these people would be baffled by the inner workings of a toaster) and just whine when things don't do what they expect - no matter how unrealistic the expectation. Really, it leads one to want to provide a live demonstration on how a gas recoil mechanism loads the next bullet in to the firiing chamber automatically... "please stand in front of the muzzle and I will show you..."

When bad days turn good!

I've got my interview for Azure tomorrow at 4 o'clock. Rather than explain again how much of a shoe-in I am for this job l'll let these two e-mails speak for themselves:

From the recruiter (bold text added by me)

Hello Michael

Your interview at Azure Dynamics Corp. is confirmed for Tuesday August 21st
at 4:00 PM.
Have advised Ron there might be a delay due to transit.

BC Research and Innovation Complex
3650 Wesbrook Mall
UBC Campus

You will be meeting with:
Ron Iacobelli (hiring manager) Azure
Dale Jackaman CTO BC Research

Be sure to review their web sites in detail: www.azuredynamics.com

Good luck on the interview and I am looking forward to your feedback.

Sincerely,
Brian Allen
BlackShire Recruiting Services Inc.

From Dale, my old boss:

You're going to get called in and I've given you my recommendation. If you
get this one, and it's probably yours to lose, then you'll owe me yet again
Mr. Barrick.

Dale

Well, go figure

All things said and done, I am pretty pleased with today. There are the interesting things in my previous friends-only post, I got the Wonder Wagon back from the garage ready for air-care and with a transmission that doesn't leak anymore, and I started a new painting.

You do stuff about what you can do stuff about and wait and hope (and maybe whine a little in your blog) about the rest.

Now I'm sleepy and it is off to bed. Gotta be at work early tomorrow so I can leave early.