I have finally landed an interview.  It’s for a help desk job downtown.  I’m not sure if it’s for Chevron or US Computer Corp(USCC).  The ad was for USCC but the guy’s email address had a Chevron domain.  Either way I get to leave the house for a possible job.

I’ve had two interviews since I lost my foot.  I went to those on my knee scooter.  Nobody has shown an interest since I got my prosthetic.  I’ve got some research and tasks to do.

I’m going to re-read the listing,  research USCC and John-Paul Wood, and plan the route to the building.  With this foot I can’t afford to overtire myself by getting lost.

I have to see if a suit leg will fit over lefty.  I’m pretty sure it will but I’ve got to control the things I can.  Friday I will check the weather.  If it’s going to rain I’ll try to re-schedule.  I would do that if I had two good feet.

Blair is leaving teaching.  She got offered a job with Catastrophic Theatre.  I’m obviously jealous or envious(pick the one that makes me look better). I’ve been looking for almost a year and another person with a job gets offered a job.

I realize that I am in NO way qualified for the new job.  But it’s the plight of my generation that we are in the transitional era between where working a long time for one company is a  positive  and  now people are expected to have had multiple jobs by the time they are 50, if some of them were at the same time even better.

Dr. Phil started off as a puff piece with Susan Sarandon.  She has a new movie out called Jeff : Who Lives At Home. Jason Segel is her 30-year-old son, Jeff.  Ed Helms is the married son with a job and a house.

The second half was about a 19 year-old that didn’t graduate high school, doesn’t have a driver’s license, and smokes pot and drinks.  Dr. Phil said he would get the kid a life manager and help the guy get a job.

After he did a bio piece on a producer that had been with him for the whole ten years he started this sentence with “if you’ve got a family member that you feel isn’t pulling his weight”.  That’s when I turned the TV off, got off the couch, and went into the bedroom to work on the Linux computer.

I don’t feel I make a equal contribution to the household because I’ve been out of work for almost 2 years.  The first 15 months I didn’t have a left foot.  I did go on a couple of interviews on the knee scooter.  Those did not go well.

All this time my wife has been doing all the household chores and supporting us through freelance editing.  I only bring in unemployment benefits.  I do send out 3 resumes a day to openings that I feel I have chance at getting.

When I’m not watching cable I work on my computer skills on both Windows and Linux.  I try to learn javascript, C#, web scripting, and SQL.

Yesterday blog came up on the task picker from the Windows side of my newer computer.   Today I’m creating an entry because writing came up on the Linux task picker spreadsheet.

I still have this cough so I’m putting off calling back a lady that was calling about a senior linux admininstrator position.  I definitely will call the woman just to tell the truth that I don’t think I’m good enough for a senior admin position.  At least she will keep me in mind for my honesty.

Writing on the Linux side involves me piling up pillows on the bed and propping the laptop up on my good leg.  I know the proper posture is sitting up but I don’t want to carry the Toshiba back and forth to my home office.

I keep the Toshiba in the bedroom because it makes the morning routine easier.  Wake up; grab the ‘puter; check both mail accounts; read my 10 daily websites, and then apply to 3 jobs that I think I have mild chance at getting.  It’s good to have the machine on the nightstand at bedtime.  I pick a BBC 4extra drama that lasts at least 30 minutes to fall asleep and drown out the wife’s snoring.

Lately my sleepytime dramas have been cut off before I’ve fallen asleep because the wireless signal dies.  One of the cats has taken to sleeping behind the router and the cable modem.  She has to give herself a good bath before sleeping.  Unfortunately a good bath involves getting tangled in easily pulled-out power cords.

I have had a phlegm-producing cough for over a week.  As long as I don’t try to talk it doesn’t bother me.  It kept me from going to SRO Friday to pitch my idea for redoing their website.

My unemployment benefits are coming to a close so I have to think up ways to pick up cash.  I hang out there a lot so maybe I could get some piecemeal work with the bar or the people who did their original site.

Today Lifehacker came up on the Dell task picker.  That’s an easy hour filled with free app news, productivity hints, and cooking tips.