Hang on. Horses? Hot tub? Wine?
We should talk. Oh, we should talk. 
Tough life, ain’t it?:D. It’s my weekly stress-buster after five days of insanity at work.
Anytime you are in Ottawa, my friend!
You used wisserteen in your fence math? There’s your problem, right there.
Bother. The job in Ottawa didn’t pan out… and it was one where the posting looked like they’d read my resume and copied it in. I was hoping to pop into the group with good news. Clearly I am in the wrong place or something.
Anyone need a minion out west?
Sorry to hear that Sunspace. If it’s not too personal, may I ask what the job was?
It’s just easier than trying to figure out whether I should stain the whole works including my neighbor’s “side” or only the bits I (by which I mean my lovely SO) have to look at. So dividing 22 sections by wisserteen at 6 half sections per gallon… I need more beer…
I can look around here for jobs if you’re interested, Sunspace. What field are you looking at?
Wait, wait. You never mentioned that the fence had other than two sides (depending on who was looking at it). That makes wisserteen seem almost logical.
Web development, technical writing, content creation, and/or ebook formatting… where is “around here” for you?
Cold Lake Alberta.
Get involved with the Toronto and Southwestern Ontario chapters of the Society For Technical Communication – terrific for networking with other technical writers.
Get in touch with people involved in or graduated from the University of Waterloo Rhetoric and Technical Writing program – there is a lot of employment for tech writers out that way, e.g. http://www.wowjobs.ca/BrowseResults.aspx?q=Technical+Writer&s=r&l=Waterloo%2C+ON
There is an absolute shitload, SHITLOAD, of high-tech layoff people here in Ottawa.
The bankruptcy of Nortel pretty much ensures that unless you have an inside contact you will never get employed in high-tech here. I’m not kidding.
If you got at least an interview you are miles ahead of everyone else up here in high-tech wasteland.
“Don’t cry
Don’t raise your eye
It’s only high-tech wasteland”
Moncton Mountie-killer Pleads Guilty
Pled guilty to 3 counts of 1st degree. Sounds like his psych assessment came back that he was competent, leading to the guilty pleas.
Major storm in Regina last night. Made the Weather Network’s live broadcast. They reported about 700 lightning strikes in the Regina area. Fortunately, we came through okay. Some tree branches down but no flooding. Sump pump is working-huzzah!
Sitting on the tarmac at Thunder Bay Airport: hi Muffin!
{Piper waves @ Muffin}
Hi Piper! [waves back]
Sitting in O’Reilly’s pub on George St, St John’s, with friends and listening to the band. I love St John’s!
Awesome. Enjoy!
Orange sunlight again here in central BC today from all the forest fires burning. We’ve had lots of hot dry weather with no rain for a while. No one in danger from the fires but the smoke is difficult for those with breathing difficulties. Sure hope for rain soon.
So do I–been too long since I was there. One night, I ended up playing with the band on stage!
Sitting here in the middle of Africa at my desk. 2nd shift in. Communications suck. I’ve got to fix that.
I’ve never seen so many bugs in my life. Big ones, little ones, termites everywhere. Very fat birds, though.
The air con is broken, but it surprisingly isn’t that hot this time of year even though we are just above the equator. Very humid, so everything is covered in water.
The villages around here are built using mud brick. The people work in the fields and the only automation they use in the fields are ox to pull the cart.
Rainy season. Rains every day.
Got to learn French, which sucks major, major donkey balls but I’ve read enough backs to cereal boxes that it shouldn’t be that hard. Just wave my hands around, speak in a loud Clouseau-esk accent and I should be fine. At least according to the field boss (who speaks French among a number of other languages)
I had no desire to go to Africa after working in the Middle East for so long, but working in Hong Kong sucked badly (too many meetings with nothing to show for them) that I couldn’t pass on the opportunity. That being said, I like it here. Not what I expected at all. Seems safe enough and as I said, the people are friendly and helpful.
Still live in HK, though. Don’t want to leave there at all. Just don’t like working there. I’d need LOTS of money to do that again. Much better just to live there and live like a tourist.
Here’s hoping you are far away from that Ebola epidemic.