Memorial Day

It has been a bust for a weekend, my boyfriend decided that he had to spray weeds on his 10 acres, but it has been windy all weekend. He has been very frustrated with the sprayer, tractor break downs, and rain. So much for any plans I had for doing something over the 3 days.

My new washing machine was installed in about 7 min by Sears. It is great, no more spots on my clean clothes. It is also pretty quiet, especially compared to the old one. One more task off my list.

This week I have insulation being blown in to the roof over my garage. Currently there in none. It makes for an oven in the summer, that puts the heat right into my house. I am putting it up to R38 and hope that it will keep the garage cooler. Also, a new windshield in my truck, it has a very long crack on the passenger side that has been needing to get fixed for awhile. All this on Wednesday.

I bought a new digital camera today. It came off of e-bay, so it should be here by the end of the week. It is an Olympus C-740 - the only under $300.00 digital with a 10x optical zoom. My girlfiend has one and I love the zoom, so decided to get me one.

My next and last big purchase will be a new computer, I have found a store in Denver that I think I can get exactly what I want for under $500.00. Will give my old one to my father, he is still running on a 350Mhz that I found for him 4 or 5 years ago. This will upgrade him to a 800Mhz with 512MG or RAM, should be enough machine to last him for another 4 years or so.

It is time to get serious about looking for a job, I have accomplished all most all the tasks that I set out for my self when I took this break between jobs, and the money will run out by the end of the year so need to get serious.

Thursdays Meanderings

I am sitting here waiting on Sears to deliver my new washing machine. Went for my bike ride this morning, what a cool fresh morning it was. So nice that I took the laptop out on my patio and did my morning e-mails and web updates. It was great to sit and listen to the birds and squirrel's chattering at me for interupting their breakfast.

Today one of my friends got her new laptop, so I am walking her through the setup of the laptop. Tomorrow (Friday) will go down and transfer her settings from her desktop to the new laptop. She is as excited as a kid with a new toy! Extra money for me!

I have been working on my townhome, put in a new medicine cabinet in the master bath, new ceiling light fixture in my kitchen. Put up more shelves in the garage for storage, went thru most of my junk and either took it to the thrift store or threw it away. I also got very ambitious and went through my closets and if I had not wore it in a year out it went! To the tune of 6 bags of clothes. Next week I will have new insulation blown into the attic over the garage (currently there is none!) and a new windshield put in my truck. Good thing I have some savings!

I am looking forward to the memorial day weekend, will spend it with my boyfriend at Marti's house for a bar-b-que. Always lots of fun.

May 26th - Still Unemployed

This is just my day to day ups and downs while looking for a job. I feel a need to keep a diary of my accomplishments as I try to stay busy while looking for work.

I am a self professed female geek! I enjoy fixing computers and figuring out the day to day issues of running on an every growing, more intrusive internet. I am hoping to find a company that will let a female fix computers. I honed my craft at Hewlett-Packard fixing NetServers and then Prolient computers over the phone and in person. I really enjoyed that job and was very disappointed when HP decided to send it to India.

I stay busy picking up odd jobs and enjoying my hobbies, reading (yes some tech manuals) and riding my horse Sonny. I have organized my days, worked on my townhome, and caught up on allot of my to do list.

Lately, I have found myself drawn to the political side of my book list. I am currently reading Longitudes & Attitudes by Thomas Friedman. It is a collection of his columns pre and post 9/11/2001. I find it a very interesting read. It is very sobering to look back on the world that we once inhabited. Especially, since this morning the FBI has announced that they are expecting a major attack by al Qaida. I hope that our government knows that we take this seriously and expect them to let the FBI loose to find these people. I know that the ACLU screams bloody murder at "profiling" but get real folks, it is arabs that are doing this, how can we expect our law enforcement to find the 7 terrorists if they have to stop one white, one black, one hispanic for every arab they want to question? Yes, our liberties are in peril but it is our liberties that put us at such risk. Anyone have a better answer?