For a Few Dollars More
The blog has been quiet for a very long time. That shows me as busy, I suppose. I have a new job, but it's not a great job. First of all, my previous job ended, and I started this new job immediately after. Basically, it's resume writing. Resume writing as a strictly comission proposition. And I've been in training for about four weeks. Already I'm watching the paper ads and thinking about other possible jobs. The boss is horrible. He's this odd, frugal, quiet, passive aggressive individual who often sighs (you know, what Al Gore was lambasted for in the 2000 election). The sigh is probably aimed at me quite often, but who knows? The headquarters for this job is in downtown Chicago in a very prominent building. Two rooms of this office are (not exaggerating) to the ceiling with boxes, papers, and other junk. One of those two rooms is the room I must sit in every day. And often he will sit right next to me, checking how many hits his web site has gotten, or more ofte...