Happy birthday Charlie

Bells and skates and many friends and family wish you a very happy birthday!
[pictures will be linked here, later]

Thanks Jeff!

In Jeff's unclouded judgment, he helped me put together my resume', making it much better. I don't yet have a job, but I have little of something that I didn't have -- hope. Thanks good buddy!

What I have

Friends, family, existence. I'm lucky then

a small little joy today ... I made my mom laugh

uncherry, perhaps last post

Thanks God for life, Jesus hereafter. I have no liking for much. I can't get happy.

Why crime?

I think I now know why people turn to crime. I think that I have put for a good effort -- 2-4 hours daily reading and submitting to job postings. I don't have a criminal history. I have no violations on my driving license going back 10 years. I have complex and simple jobs. I want a chance, a break, an opportunity. I have good references. I have never been fired and have given 2 weeks notice to all employers, save my job in Wisconsin -- forced leave+.

+ long story, but suffice to write -- no money, left in hotel with only hours to get somewhere, which lead to dissolution of marriage and return migration to FW, IN

Stocked up and sold out

I appear to be stocked up on failures and have failed to order or sold out of successes. I would guess that on average, I post my resume' and submit applications at a rate of over 20 per day (really higher). If I were to calculate that my standards have significantly lowered and that I would calculate this at only for the last two months, I have sent nearly 1000 postings. Out of that, I have received just about nothing. I have sent far more than 2000. If I were suicidal, I would already be dead.

This is not sad, but sickening. I can't get a job at McDonald's, I've tried -- no call back. I have either no experience in an area, a desk job for too long or I have bad breath. What gives. No one I know has submitted so many friggin' applications and resume's with so little response. All I want is a chance -- if I fail at the interview, then so be it, but after all of that ... I should have something.

I applied to Blockbuster where I used to work ... nothing. I applied to Wal-Mart, but they would not accomodate me on a schedule change for my preliminary interview, so no call-back. I have tried industry and manufacturing. I have tried retail, even gas stations. I have tried management, hourly, grunt work. I am more than discouraged. I suppose that I could be even more depressed as it is the season for it, but I think that it's the only thing keeping me going.

I don't drive if I can avoid it and have a nice, growing larger stack of unpaid bills. I have completely exhausted all of my own money (borrowing from my 403b). I can't get a job and for no particular reason.

I have applied from Maine and Alaska to California to Florida. I have not put many limitations of things. I don't have money and would be willing to live out of a motel 6 for a month if I got a job.

If anyone knows of any jobs that aren't posted on careerbuilder, monster, regionalhelpwanted, thingamajobs, indanajobbanks, usjobbanks, allretailjobs, getthejob, coke co, mcGraw-Hill, theLadders, Yahoojobs, CBSindustries, Accounttemps, Nettemp, railroad, Officeteam, Kitty Hawk, or Manpower please let me know. I have tried all of these. I log in to all of these daily. I have sent faxes, email, US post letters.

My only other option is military which won't take me because of an immaterial medical issue, but maybe like me, they have lowered their standards.

I have a BS Ed, which must be Blast Self Expeditedly.

Win Media 11

Hurry up and wait. Let's see: I had my music on Win 10, but apparently Win 11 doesn't know squat of what Win 10 did. It also forces albumn art. I deleted that crap long ago. I save many a Meg and quite frankly, I care not for a small pic of an albumn. Let's examine AC/DC who put some of the same songs on three some CDs. Which one to attribute to the song as you eventually either have several copies of the same song or over-write them. It does play a little greater number of formats, but so far -- not that impressed.

It has taken several hours of Win Media looking for my music and it still hasn't found it all. I have another program that actually does sound leveling (Win Media does not), but to load it into Win Media with "sound leveling" takes longer. That is, shall I say, bull.

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I wanted to write, I wanted a job. I needed the latter.

I've tried

I've tried the ambassador, the consulate, the President; I just can't bring my+ resume' to come up with a job. I can't get a hit, like playing Vegas blackjack and I have a 2 hole card and a 3 showing. I can't get a hit and the dealer is showing 17.

+ adapted from Top Secret

Like red stripes on a leprecaun

Angel costumes and kids who don're really know the lyrics and lack choreography. Nothing speaks not really Christmas like this. The director had to see this in the months of practice that things really didn't match well.

Kids "singing" Christmas carols and stepping left and right -- I wouldn't call it dancing. The part the viewer is missing is why the "angel" outfits?

Job that I will create

Mine. I had the opportunity to enter two public buildings recently that had security issues that needed attending. The more critical one was a church that has a nursery and preschool program. It had access points without checking, and with the remote possiblity that a child would be unatteneded, that would be a major problem. Moreover, with unsecured access points the school could have been a host to a number of problems, including things being put into the church/school.

I walked in looking for something, but found that I entered the wrong door. There were no cameras (not surprising considering that it is a church). There were no fob entries to the doors and there were poorly lit stairs very close to the door. That was pretty scary that it was so dangerous.

The other building was a hotel where there were ballrooms in an addition to the '90s building. The overhang was "perfect" for a wedding reception or something comparable. It sheilded double doors, which were unlocked. There were guest rooms around, elevators, and a buisness center with computer and printers. The connecting hallways between the ballrooms were dimly lit with a fire alarm box broken from the wall.

At the time of my being there, there were several people with casual clothes who didn't have rooms. While there, two older women entered the door and wandered through the hotel, looking for a room, perhaps? They were also looking for the office. This spells a larger problem, as a person has greater access in a hotel and generally no one asks to see your passcard.
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My job would be to assess security issues and resolve them. It would use one of my abilities to assess threats, more accurate on individual basis.

Chuck D balls

Chuck D balls
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

"Rap is not afraid of you", okay, but what if it frightens me? His clothes have some balls!

Chuck D spitting out lyrics, Bring the Noize, "Turn it up" not from an 8 track.

This reminds me of a Shadownet person who observed that Monkeyjack always lowered his voice to say, "balls".

Wintery

December 2nd

Decemeber 5th

Wintery
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

Welcome Christmas! Welcome. Welcome. Welcome Christmas! Welcome. Welcome. Welcome Christmas while we stand -- heart to heart and hand in hand.

Hard to handle now: it's that time of year where people forget that snow makes you slide and you need to plan better for stopping. It also means -- accidents, generally derived from others' poor driving.

FW got this today. It is Winter boys and girls.

Who were they

Out of nowhere you got Aerosmith and Run DMC, no laces on the Adidas; floundering and spinning into infinity

Walk this way, talk this way

A decade later, Jam Master Jay slain and Run DMC fades into obscurity and Aerosmith's songs spun slower. As this beat is winding down ...

Criminal Deviate Homicide

Fort Wayne, first city in Indiana to wage propaganda and info war on abduction/molestation. Sadly, these weapons don't shoot. They should. Congratulations Fort Wayne on this step. Also, the percentage of closed cased on missing children improved 2004 - 2005.

Oh no you didn't!

I don't care if they are Green, Independant, Democrat or Republican, if they start taxing online shopping -- heads are going to roll! If they want tax money: tax prisoners, tax gas guzzlers, tax cigarettes and alcohol. Taxing online shopping -- that will about spell the end of online shopping for a lot of people. eBay figuring out taxes -- that will be fun. Even if they just email you your responsibility to pay taxes -- that's not going to cut it.

America has too many lawyers ... now, they'll be matched in number with accountants. There's our standing army for you! Number crunchers attack!

What the world needs now, is sense, common sense. +

+Tax Bracket (not Burt Bakarach)

it has something to do with where choo choo go

I'm on the night train ... I love that stuff. I'm on the night train, and I can never get enough. I'm on the night train, never slowin' down ... +

Norfolk emailed me, not called me and said -- dude, you're not in.

'After much deliberation, we went with the guy who had the biggest muscles.'


I don't know if I mentioned it, but I was the shortest guy at the interviews. I was not, however in the worst shape.

+ lyrics are obviously from Guns 'N' Roses, Night Train.

I sent him a

Well, MR has the phrase, "snoopy" for any unsolicited picture or email stemming from a Snoopy toy, the picture of which I have long since lost.

bursting

I dropped of a letter at the downtown post office and the mailbox was bursting. The letter sat on top of six thousand others. 'Tis the season.

I present you with these

MR found and scanned this old photo. "I present you with these, his two balls." MR noted the odd hand placement. Darn it anyway!