Current Mood: discontentSo, due to our unexpected inabililty to buy the condo we wanted we are faced with a dillema. We have to notify the apartment company if we are leaving by the 31st, and when we are leaving, or resigning or whatever. We would rather not stay where we are, but we could live [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in July, 2005
The condo’s we were thinking about putting an offer on got bought up the night we were looking at them. Both of them, in the same building, on the same night. That is totally crap-tastic. Oh well, I bet there are better places out there for us, or maybe a different one will open up. [...]
Current Mood: cheerfulWe saw a few condos at Riverview Tower and it looked pretty nice. We are going to run some of the financials and see if we can come up with any good numbers. The only thing I’m really worried about is that the condo on the 18th floor had higher dues than the [...]
Current Mood: relievedWell, I didn’t get fired, but someone else did. A guy who was the last sales guy before me got fired today. (at least I think he got fired….the email only said he “left the company”, but the way he left this morning looked like he got fired). So that is good. Also, [...]
Current Mood: accomplishedI now own BenCatlin.com, and have moved most of my blogging stuff over to it. Next is getting the church project I’m working on transferred, and some mp3′s uploaded for testing purposes. I think this host I’m with (Dreamhost) has support built in for streaming media, so I may brush up on that. [...]
Current Mood: chipperThe phone interview went pretty well. I like interviews…I always rock at them. I’m so humble. Well, besides that check out this tip on some cheap hosting if you want your own domain. I think I’m going to register www.bencatlin.com, and forward most of my traffic from here to there. It would be [...]
Current Mood: nervousI’m a little worried about my job right now. I wanted to keep it until I quit, but today something interesting happened. A guy walked in, shook my bosses hand and disappeared into the conference room. I got a bad feeling that it wasn’t a meeting with a customer or vendor, so I [...]
I have a phone Interview w/ the Target Distribution center on Monday. Hopefully that will go well. It would be nice to work closer to home. I don’t like the idea of 24-7 availability, but as long as it isn’t second shift, I suspose I can live with it. My foot hurt today on the [...]
Current Mood: blankSo it hasn’t rained here in a while. I’m not sure how long, but it has been crazy hot (or more to the point muggy) and the grass is starting to turn yellow around my building. In general, some rain would be nice. Thursday Lauren and I are going to look at places. [...]
Current Mood: excitedWow, All in one day. So much news today. This is exciting stuff, along with all the G8 stuff. Too bad some whack-a-do’s had to try and mess it all up w/ bombs and all that.
Current Mood: nerdyFor those of you who aren’t aware of this, there is a great free, constantly updated, online Encyclopedia called The Wikipedia, based on some really cool Wiki software. Anyway, the deal is, anyone can update this stuff, and it goes into a list of recently updated stuff, and it is read by moderators [...]
Current Mood: cheerfulGot a decent bite on the resume. Sent out 4 or 5 yesterday, got one call from a head-hunter. The guy asked me if I would be comfortable programming for PLC’s right now, if someone asked me to. I promptly responded, “I would probably like to be more familiar with a line before [...]
Current Mood: blahI’ve fired off like 3 or 4 resumes so far during lunch here, and I’ll probably try to send a few more later this week. I’ve hit a point at work where I’m back to creating things to keep me busy. Which means cold-calling. Again, I’m reminded of how I hate this process, [...]
