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Sexy Magick
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Saturday, March 25, 2006
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OMG direct hire referrals from temp agencies - $2000.00 WTF? and they don't do any background searches for you
I've already spent 250.00 on craigslist and nada but $2000, I'm not sure about that, if I'm going to spend that kind of money, I might as well advertise on Monster or Hot Jobs. Monster has specials that start at 575 for 1 month and 995 for one posting. Hot Jobs starts at 295. Bay Area Help Wanted starts at 258
I'm going to try and get in touch with a recruiter friend of mine and see if she has any candiates that are like me, she knows me so that will help - defintely don't think I will be going through AppleOne for a direct hire candiate - that's way too much $$ to find someone.
Although I think TM should just come work for me :)
10:28:22 AM 
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so I'm back from Portland and playing catch up again this week
the project went good, made good contacts, great references, probably future work in other areas of my company with the same company
and met a guy, i wasn't actually awake enough to realize that he was that interested but now that we been talking on IM for the last few days, he's adorable. And nothing in my consulting agreement says I won't date the employees *grin*, steal the employees yes, date no
I worked about 65 hours while I was there and I was getting sick ...lets rewind here..back to the beginning.....I got soaked in Oakland from my car to the terminal. My mom told me an umbrella would have help but really people, when the rain is slamming into the back of my legs, I don't think an umbrella would you have helped and my head didn't get wet. So there I was soaking wet on the plane and when I got to Portland its raining too, i don't think I got warm til I got to the hotel
Although I did rent a really cool Mustang - got a deal on a convertible because it was raining, would I buy a mustang in the future, probably not, gas mileage sucks and it the seatbelt thingy kept hitting my hip weird, i think its made for skinny people and I felt like I was really tiny, its got a big interior feel, but I digress back to the Portland.
Tigger cleanups are a bitch - I never ever seem to estimate correctly on how long it will take to clean up a database that's been in use for a few years and like i said before I wasn't completely prepared - usually I do the base work remotely before getting on site - the base configuration for accounting and this particular client wanted everything done onsite or at least initially. And then there was the sales person question - how to import into Act from Tigger - I honestly have no idea, I don't neccessarily support Act anymore, I stopped doing that a long time ago, so when I got home I downloaded a trial version - so now I need to write a report for her - upload it to their tigger database and figure out to export out and import into ACT and send instructions - which I included in the project price.
I have to say I'm an idiot - I was so tired while I was there, not used to getting up at 5am to go to work for anyone and when I talked to "the guy" on the phone Monday night trying to troubleshoot the VPN login and tigger at their office, he wanted to meet me back at the office to work - we would have been all alone, although I guess he could have come over to the hotel but I had no clue.
I really had no clue that he was interested until about Thursday and it completely dawned on me Friday, the day, I was leaving. I really need someone to hit me over the head sometimes and tell me a guy is interested. I was exhausted by Friday, I didn't get any sleep on Wed or Thurs since I was up working on their database structure - two companies databases for the price of one makes for a very long week.
I finally met Chris - now I have a voice to go with the IM conversations, I kept telling him I would seduce him when we met and you know when the time came - I didn't do a damn thing :( I was so tired and he's really hot and that voice, yum.
I got to see James and Susan - two old friends that I haven't seen in about 5 years, they have kids now, really cute adorable little girls. James is still the same and omg, I remember why we broke up in the first place, he's annoying - I know he's excited that he finally is doing something with his engineering degree and that he's working at intel doing chipset and cad tools database things but they way he told me about it - i couldn't decide if he was just telling me about it or telling me about it like I had no clue about what he talking about. I remember he used to get so mad at me when I helped him with his calculus homework because I always got the answers right, I just couldn't tell you how I can to that conclusion or I'd argue about infinite numbers with him
fast forward a week..talking to "the guy" for a few days online via webcam and the phone, I had no idea that everytime I left his cube, the guys were giving him shit, telling him to go for it or that he was nervous when ever we were around each other. I want to go see him and he's ask me to come back to Portland but my schedule is as usual hectic and I'm going to Phoenix in two weeks, eye surgery again in 3 weeks and meetings after that, hopefully soon I can get a chance to go back there to see him - although he could always come here too. I do have this utter desire to walk into the office and kiss him :)
12:12:37 AM
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
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if you like 3D art, go check out Michael Cox - gorgeous art
so I'm off to Portland for week..brrrrrrrrr, its cold there
11:46:07 AM
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
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if you live in the city and I know alot of you do, go check out
Bean There Coffee & Tea
201 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA
corner of Waller & Steiner, a skip and hop from Duboce Park
hopefully they will have a website up and running soon, so you can go check out his delicious decadant coffee and tea
12:56:12 AM
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Totally missing Steve Kirks who actually took time to check the discussion board and help out with questions and it looks like Jake occasionally answers a question but where did everyone go? Is everyone on their own now?
12:38:50 AM
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i swear I think I just lost the whole month of January somewhere along the way, tonight I was reconcilling a bank statement for a client and January wasn't reconcilled and I couldn't find the statement anywhere. The same thing happened at another client's a few days ago and when I was reconcilling my own bank statements, I couldn't find January's statement anywhere in the house. Its like the whole month of January entries and things I did when into this black void. There are entries in several of my client's quickbooks that I don't remember entering and yea, you're probably thinking no one could possibly remember everything for 10+ clients but I have a photographic memory which is one reason I never really wanted to be an accountant - numbers forever swirling around in my head but I do remember usually everything i've entered, i remember passwords for the most part but the last month or so, its like I haven't really been here - everything seems to be lost in a void somewhere. I think I need sleep
And I'm leaving in a day in a half for a project in Portland, today I sent the client an email to confirm I'd be onsite Monday morning and OMG, I couldn't for the life of me remember what he needed and what I was going to be doing. Thank god, I had sent him an email a few weeks ago detailing out what the project plan was. I'm not ready to go on a trip, I'm not prepared. I feel like I could sleep forever.
12:16:53 AM
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Thursday, March 09, 2006
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gotta love tweezerman - i couldn't remember what my table of contents settings were - so I searched through tweezerman's blogging index, came across this post, saw my original comments, remembered he'd had sent me an email way way back in 2004 reminding me to run the workspace.upstreamPostIndexes() macro, found my original notes and how I setup my table of contents, re-configured the macro to my specific settings, complied and ran the macro and my table of contents are up and running again.
and what I don't get why doesn't these types of settings get backed up? oh well, another day and I think I'm back up and running - now I just need to fix this WYSIWYG box size but I think that might be my template more than anything else
11:19:04 PM
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
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new computer = starting over and reinstalling everything again at least this time it was by choice not a crash
and i forgot i needed to run all my macros again and I can't remember which one I need to run to get my table of contents up and running again..
3:13:45 AM
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isn't radio or userland suppose to send an email to you letting you know that your subscription has expired and it needs to be renewed in order to upstream to their server? Have no idea when it ended but I can't upstream until I get the renewal code now..ok so I got it but the renewal page is in a obscure location - just in case you need it..you can find it here: http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/renewLicense (i think it should be in the help page somewhere)
2:02:04 AM
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today I realized that my trainer is not motivating me..what he is doing is pissing me off and making me feel guilty because I can't make it to workout when a client needs me or I need to stay and finish what I'm working on. Its my money that I'm wasting if I don't make it and honestly if I can give him a few hours notice - I don't think he should count it as a no show.
he makes me feel guilty about not eating correctly - all diets are stupid, when you deprive yourself of everything, you start to crave sweets - I don't even particulary like sweets but lately all I want is ice cream and more and more sugar. I used to eat really spicy food - but that's not part of his diet plan, I forgot how much I love onions and garlic and spice!
I asked him to come over to my house and show me how to exercise with the equipment I have, it would get me motivated I think if I had some idea of what I'm doing but he wants to work out at the gym - whatever.
And I switched gyms so he could still be my personal trainer because 24hr fitness personal training policy sucks and now I'm thinking it might have been a bad idea to switch gyms for a few reasons - the gym I now belong to is cool and easy going but its only located in 5 places - so if I travel - I can't go to my gym and its more expensive than an all location membership at 24hr fitness and honestly who am i kidding with my feet, i can't rock climb and I'm scared of heights and its only open til 10pm, the whole point of 24hr is that's it open 24hr which works with my schedule.
I think I'm switching back to 24hr fitness because at least I'll be able to work out when I travel - there is always a 24hr fitness somewhere and if for some odd reason I want to go work out at 2am, I can.
And besides pissing me off - i'm not losing this weight, i seemed to be gaining it in places I didn't want to gain it in, when did my thighs get so big? I realized today everyone in my family is making me feel like I'm huge or something, yea, I'm overweight but I'm not huge and I'm constantly worried about losing this weight - its terrible, I need to just do it because I want to do it, not because of anyone else.
the plan - switch back to 24hr fitness, cancel new membership, take a break from the personal trainer, do 10 reps on the health rider per day and get a big ball to work out on and oh yea, eat the foods I like, no more stupid diets. x
1:54:18 AM
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Friday, March 03, 2006
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oh yea, I was published again for some poetry and i think its time I took it to the next level - see if I can get published in an actual magazine or maybe even write a book of poetry - i found one a poetry contest that looks easy I already have the poems - why not, lets see what happens
1:13:33 AM
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i had soooooooo many thoughts roaming through my head tonight and they are all gone right now except one i remember I got this voicemail from a client and it was so long winded while I was listening to it, i was thinking I'm going to have to play that over and over again to get the point, she means well but oh no..
i have this potential new client in Phoeniz - which is great since I was going to go visit my parents anyways in April and lay out by the pool for three days and go to the spa with my mom and I can work and then go visit and the client pays for the airfare if all works out..but what sucks and I understand but it still sucks - they are calling me at 8am there time which is 7am here and anyone that knows me, knows that I am definetly not awake at 7am for any reason - I finally left them a message today letting them know that I am available usually from 9am to 11am - maybe that will trigger them to call at 9am their time?
so that's about it for the night..thoughts come and go and I'm exhausted
1:06:05 AM
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