Sounds fair... I mean you put up with more years of BS at the U right?

Taking everything into consideration I'll probally take the engineering job from him, If he can actually get me one. I'm not really expecting that he can. I can put up with 2 years of BS as long as I have my RSX to get me through. Yep I'll just run as fast as hell to my car and tear out of that place after work every day. It's not really hard to get a job after say a year of abcense from a engineering job. The average time to get a job for a newly graduated engineer is 1 year. It is when you start to go to the 4 year mark were you have to go back to school to upgrade or something. The engineering society doesn't really want to scare undergrads and say you could never get a job. This job is related enough to the field that it could actually help me get a job over some undergrad with no experiance. We'll see I guess, everything is still up in the air.

Hey Tone, maybe try ending the process under the task manager and restart Firefox again. That usually fixes it.

and Andy, just for clarification, who promised you unfettered access to me? Though the phrase sounds like something I would say (vocabularily based), I can't see myself saying it.

so, I'd like to apologize for not posting again earlier. I've decided that Sunday is a better day than today (thankfully I posted it at least a day in advance). I don't know where to suggest we go, but if the weather is anything like it is today, I can't see the park being overly busy. (actually, isn't it supposed to get rainier?) So... perhaps we should meet near-ish one of those picnic shelters just in case the rain starts to threaten.

The first shelter in the park... past the humongous parking lot has a fairly decent open space near it, a nice sized parking lot and some of those rusting fire pit things. Like I said, I'll bring frisbee and marshmallows. I may even be able to find a football, but no guarantees. I'm thinking 2:30pm or so would be good... that way we can hang out for a bit and if people decide going out for food is a good idea, well then we can do that too.

so...
Hawrelak Park,
Sunday,
2:30 pm
near the first picnic shelter (just follow the road around to the back side of the lake)
bring your own sporting goods and food/beverages if desired

hope to see you there

Oh, and is anything going on tonight or should I resolve to finally doing dishes?

Hey Al, will it be harder for you to find an engineering related position after taking time off doing unrelated stuff? Would a company hire you over a freshly graduated eng if you did this job for a year or vice versa?

my email:

Eric,

We received an email about the vice dolls from you at the end of May. It appears we left out the word service from customer service but hey all is not lost we found your email again.

We’re about 6 weeks a way from receiving the first shipments. As soon as they arrive I’ll send you an email with information on where they’re available locally or on the web. If you’re one of those people that just can’t wait (that ADD thing) you can send us a US Money Order for $15.oo plus $5 for shipping and we’ll send you one of the first to arrive. All 4 will set you back $60 plus S &H.

Al, if that (jerkoff) dude CAN actually get you the job, i would say go for it even if you do like your current job. it's all about getting your foot in the door right? put up with at maximum two years of BS and then go look for something more satisfying. at least at that point you'll know you're ahead of the other freshly graduated mechies.

taylor: did you compile a list of all the stuff your archived? i'm thinking of trying to get a bunch of people to organize their libraries and have like a central archive... i dunno. (terrabyte server anyone?)

that is all.

A bit late, but good effort on landing that job, Al.

On a much less positive note, Firefox is really pissing me off right now. After seizing up and crashing the computer yesterday, I've started it up today to find that every single bookmark I had has disappeared. All of them. Gone. Now, earlier I was getting some sort of issue regarding user profiles, so could it be that they still exist, only on another profile that I can't access right now? Anyone?