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A thirteen hour day, 15 hours if you count transport, with a brief moment to sprawl upon some chairs, limbs completely, utterly relaxed, shoes kicked off, behind you the constant gibbering in Italian, the banging of espresso handles and grinding of coffee, it's not much but it's the best I can do.
Father's Day, we're closed, so the weekend is hectic by way of compensation. Hectic with late tables that breeze in at 9:00, 9:30, hardly late for the restaurant industry but late when you're cleaning up, when you've been there 11 hours already and are dying to go home.
In the brief break this afternoon a couple of local garage sales, early starters, nothing at all which casts a taint over the whole weekend.
And dreams, nothing cohesive, loose bits, sexual but not at all, nude ex girlfriends, the shape of women, strange, always promising myself I'll make notes but always lying in that extra 2 minutes until all the memories are dissolved.
A mountain with a cave, green, following up the side along a path, there's a pagoda and hotel, Japanese style, somewhere near the top, and from the top I should be able to find the cave...but it's getting dark, and having found the inn am tempted to stay and enjoy it's hot tubs (red paper lanterns floating overhead); the hotel, the place, it's beautiful and I'm almost wanting to stay forever....
There are the links between dreams, the feeling that each dream is building on, drawing from another similar dream that I had, and I can never recall if the dream was one that I had before this one, or the memory of an older, recurring dream.
But the dreams, at the moment they're the only escape I have, and for 20 minutes I can hang off the chairs, arms, legs slack, unable to move while the restaurant bangs like a poltergeist all about me.
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It never rains like this in Calgary, or rarely rains like this.
Every day almost, torrents and sheets, it's torrential, a deluge, days only to sit inside and build model arks and be grateful one doesn't live anyplace really rainy, like Vancouver....
It's never been this green. Lush, verdant, the garden overflows with exotic looking plants, the lawn needs cutting every other day...
And work, with the rain, has been busy. It's always busy, busier might be the operative expression. And when after all the surviving is done and the midweek day off rolls around there's other work, web work, work that trespasses on my limited free time, trespasses on my goodwill and easygoing nature, which is becoming progressively less and less easygoing....
So a couple of thrift shops today, a haircut (long overdue, but I like to see how long I can push these things, simply slap on some more hair product..), to the grocery store for some cat food but I neglected to provide for myself and so it's yet another day dining at 7/11, they've a limited (although savoury) buffet, a 3 hour nap (no dreams proper, rather disconnected unsexy sex bits if that makes sense...), wake, more coffee, work, work, some podcasts, work, loaf, and now a brief, utterly useless posting before bed.
It's a bit of a dry spell for ideas. I'm being distracted by a hundred outside influences, work I don't want to do, work I have to do, the pressures of an impending vacation and visit to the dentist and the necessity of finding a proper job; I'm being eaten alive by a million tiny obligations ....
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My resume could use some work. My brother, he's successfully employed, by which I mean he makes ridiculous sums of money in a corporate daycare. He's a little more socially acceptable than I am, be blends in, doesn't make waves.
I'm generally not so easygoing.
He's sent me a list of action words I should be using in my resume, the same words that everyone else uses, they'll help drive it up in the recruiters ranking.
Words like "Reported, Resolved, Suggested, Summarized", you get the idea. BORING.
So I've compiled my own list of Resume Action Words, not all of which are applicable but they sure are a damned site more interesting.
Feel free to use them on your own resume:
Overthrew, conspired, insurrection, subverted, procrastinated, napped, guillotined, executed, argued, obfuscated, indoctrinated, tortured, vilified, cautioned, pestered, annoyed, obstructed, broke, crashed, quit, failed, discouraged, destroyed, embezzled, defrauded, assaulted, sued, litigated, misallocated, misappropriated, unionize, prevaricated, demoted, insubordinated, degraded, humiliated, revolted, convicted, denied, deceived, conspired, emancipated, impeached, ...
There are more. You get the idea.
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AN early night at work, thankfully, but work at home to catch up upon.
Traced the "500 Internal Server" to the tag-cloud component of the site, uninstalled & reinstalled an updated version, now appears to be working. I've yet to fix the blog listing of all articles, so for the moment all articles will have to be published to the front page.
And I've been thinking of the I-PAD, not because I want one, but because I've been curious what would be the "next big thing" in computing.
The I-Pad isn't it.
From what I've seen, the Microsoft Courier is a big potential contender. I like the touch screen interface, if it's lightweight and portable enough...
What I really want is some sort of touch screen interface that will recognize my handwriting and offer the ability to sketch vast mental maps that extend for kilometers beyond the boundaries of the screen and offer the potential for unlimited zoom.
Probably it's just me, but the mental mapping software out there, with it's dependence on keyboards and mouses, is rubbish.
What I want to do is to sketch, with a stylus or brush, images, ideas, thoughts, questions, over acres of virtual territory. With my hand, not a mouse or a keyboard. I want to be able to organize my thoughts. I want a virtual notebook that will take my writing as I put stylus to page, change it into legible type, allow me to explore related ideas, drag in images, soundclips, videos, links.....
Probably the Courier isn't the next big thing either, but it seems a whole lot closer.
And I'm working on other, more detailed posts, so this evening is a little shortchanged. I'm preparing my next Kijiji listing - for a genii infested oil lamp, almost there, just need to round up a few parts and take a few photos....save your money
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I was fixing the blog section and, well, you've probably noticed.
I spell fix with a "U".
So, apologies if it's acting up, but possibly it will be fixed in the very near future.
Until then search for articles by using the search function, or by clicking on the appropriate category link (beneath the title of the posting).
Good luck....