Charismatic Dog

I posted something private so that only my “friends” and not “the man” can read it. Luke already logged in and read it and gets a gold star for having exactly the right response no less!

Oh and I'm in someone else's journal information as an asshole. Which is kind of fun, although it's not explicit that it's me.

[Update: it's not me. Which kinda makes me an actual asshole as much of a bummer as that is, I guess I should be glad, or sumthin'. Anyhow, apologies to the not so anonymous person who's journal I didn't name ]

Well, the big C decided they don't want any of their finalists. I want to just hall off and say fuck them, but that would've been one hell of a job. Oh well, fuck 'em! They missed out, and you read it here folks, I told 'em so. Oh, I was nice about it. I said: “well I think you guys are missing an opportunity that would've paid off nicely over the long term,” but I said it none-the-less. Did I say I'd still be here if they wanted me? Well, I said I was still interested if they changed their minds, but I'm already sorta not. You know me. I'll get drunk some night and say “Hey Carleton! I was wrong to reject your job offer lets start another band…” or umm something like that, but truth the is they didn't want me. didn't think I could manage two forty-something teammates. I tried to be as neutral to friendly about the whole process as I could. I'm pretty upset, but I don't think they heard any of it. Oh well, it just means the Holy Oler has me on the tangibles front. That job always had better intangibles, but the big C had better tangibles like money, equipment, insurance… a fucking window! Oh well, as long as the big B doesn't fire me I can still pay my bills. I want to take all this job angst and write songs, or some such, but really I'm pretty well off and I know it. It doesn't make me happy, but if makes me feel guilty about being sad… sheesh! What a post eh? I'm not so down really, if the dream job comes through now I won't be tempted to take something else for some reason. It's all focus now kids! Hopefully the Holy Oler will be smarter than the big C and give me a shot to prove what an awesome employee I can be. (I should be glad the big B doesn't read this, or he might have something to say about that last one ) Still, it can't rain all the time, and I actually enjoyed it today. Cooled things down a bit.

I started this post with my mood set as depressed, but I've happily switched it to hopeful. Look out world, here I come! Amber's coming over to go jogging. After which I think I'll spruce up the ol' pad and shoot my resume (pronounced reh-zoom) off to an OS X consulting firm. If I spend too much longer at my current employer I may end up stuck on the winders side of things forever and prior to Apple going out of business that would upset me almost as much as her new room-mate is surely upsetting Martha Stewart.

I tain't been updating too much of late. Partly because I've had the good fortune of seeing a lot of the people I write this for. I mean, I do admit to writing this mainly for my own release, but I also tend to want to let people know if I've got major events going on. Big doings as it were. I've had the good fortune recently to have doings and to share said doings with most of my c. friends. That being said. I'm sure there are folks who I haven't told what's what lately. Work, however is not the place to do that from. More to come… Oh if you read this and yet somehow don't read that 's journal. Check out the choose your own adventure he's recently ignited on his journal.

-Drew

So I was watching good ol' Pepsi Smash last night (well not all of it really) and I saw Los Lonely Boys playing the closer. They just went into this crazy 12 bar rockin' stompin' thing! No vocals at all. Just an awesome jam with lots of silly tricks like the bass player leaning over the guitar and playing his line on the E string of the guitar while the guitar player was still screaming. It was really cool to watch. I may need to hit Cheapo or Best Lie and get their disc.

Actual rant now follows:

Apple puter today announced something. They announced they're out of iMacs and that the new model won't be available until September. Now, that seems like a bad thing, and kinda weird to boot, but I take this the same way a lot of other people do. Go Apple! This is what they've needed to do for a very long time. Deal outright with their customers. This is what we have now. This is what we have in the pipeline. This is what other companies have done for years. Announced things way ahead of finish. Sometimes never even competing a project or leaving out features, but that's enough to stop people from migrating. If Dell or someone announces their going to use some wizbang part in a few months, then bam! Anyone looking at say… Apple's current products will go, but in a few months Dell will have something better. Which may or may not ever be true. Now Apple's finally getting in on this action. Rather than just saying that iMacs will be back ordered for a little while, Apple is going right ahead and saying we'll have all new ones in September…. Boy I'm a little worked up right now and this isn't nearly as coherent as a little time to think could make it. More on this later…