days and nights

So I went down for an interview today. It was with this company that I would love to work for, but have yet to interview with. Finally I get an interview with them and my stupid past comes into play. They can’t hire me until I finish this stupid expungement. I am going to fucking kill whoever is in charge of this shit at the state level. How fucking long does it take?! I have been waiting for damn near 6 weeks now with nothing. Here is a clue for whoever is in charge of expungements for the state of Utah. GET A CLUE! Fucking morons.

This shit has bitten me more times in the last year than any other shitty little mistake I have made before. And this is smaller than most mistakes I have made. But because the country prosecutor needed to make some money for the county, I get fucked. I didn’t do a fucking thing then, and now I am paying for not noticing someone else stealing shit. Good times. This is what I get for not being fucking perfect in my friend selection in this police state shit that we are living in now.

Damnit… I am fucking pissed.

After a load of work and some good solid time into design, I have Alienspeed.com back up and running. Go check it out. We are going to start posting content this week and will have 3 solid articles per week if at all possible after that.

In other news, I really need a job now. I have several prospects, but none of them really fit 100%. We will see. *sigh*

I have been working to get some pictures up in the gallery and it seems that I was successful. I have a couple hundred up there, and am adding more every day. Go check it out. http://gallery.alienspeed.com

I have been busting my ass for a couple weeks now looking for a job. No luck so far. It seems that I have been blacklisted or something. I am not even getting emails now. And I have applied for damn near 100 jobs with only two solid leads. It is a shame. I should have just dealt with the job until I couldn’t anymore, but such is life.

If anyone out there has something, I would LOVE to hear about it. I am going to be seriously in trouble by next Friday if I don’t have something lined up. I am good with contracts or full time. I am an administrator, so if you need computer work done, and it pays something above $26 an hour, let me know.

There is really no other news. I have been job hunting and studying for my LPIC 1. Studying is SO freaking tiring though.

Oh yeah, I started running again. I go and do stairs up at our local football stadium. Each flight has 33 steps. So far, I am up to doing 24 flights. It isn’t much, but I am busting my ass trying to make it happen. I will keep you updated and such. I am hoping to be up to 42 flights by the end of the month. We will see.

So I failed a background check with Overstock.com about 6 months ago. Since then, I have gotten the previous issues taken care of and my record is clean. Expungement is AWESOME. So I am working with my recruiter down at KForce, and he tells me that they are hiring again. I am stoked because I really think that a job with Overstock would be great. He starts talking to them and getting the ball rolling a little bit. I get a call. Overstock informed him that if you fail a background check in the past at all, you are not eligible to work for them again. Major fail.

So yeah, I am working to find something else. I was really hoping that this transition would be a fast one, but it seems that I was incorrect in placing my hopes so high.

Time to get to work looking for more work. I really want to move back to Dallas. I think I will start looking much harder there.

So in about 9 hours, I have an interview/meeting with a guy that is a recruiter with KForce. I am hoping these guys actually have something for me. I have just started this job search thing and I am already sick of it.

In other news, I have started working with Fedora 9 a little bit. I love it. So far it is much better than Ubuntu 8.04 in almost every way. Wine works out of the box, which is a definite start in the right direction. Beyond that, the boot times are MUCH faster for the same machine. I do have to say that I am now running a 64 bit kernel now as opposed to a 32 bit kernel with Ubuntu. Regardless, what a difference. Everything from install to initial login was smoother and more efficient. In my eyes, Fedora 9 is the way to go.

I will update as soon as I have any information on the job search. I have four major opportunities I am looking at right now. One in Utah, two in Dallas, and one in New Jersey. I am really hoping to either stay in Salt Lake or go to Dallas. New Jersey would be an adventure, but it would be quite a change. And starting over is a bit of a pain when it comes to friends and such. Though I have some friends in Boston, that is a bit of a drive. So yeah. There you go. You are up to date on my life.