Well, given that I haven't heard anything about the other two jobs and they're willing to reinstate me at my old salary back at the community college, it looks like I'm going to take that position after all. Which means, since they apparently want me to start on Monday, I couldn't even be unemployed for more than a single week! GRRR. On the plus side, I did get some drawing done today, illustrating no less than five Hot Flashes (no scanning/coloring yet, though) and drawing the primary background for MY FIRST ILLUSTRATED BOOK! It's going to be hilarious. Promise. 😎

Okay, new topic. You know what I really like? Hearing from people I haven't heard from in a while -- especially when I didn't think I'd ever hear from those people again. (more...)

Today, Omni of Every Topic in the Universe(s?) wrote a post entitled "How to bid on eBay". It's mostly good advice -- especially point #4. I'd also expand that advice to include "Buy It Now" auctions -- even if there's a chance that one could save a dollar or two by winning a competitive auction, it's a lot easier to just pay the set price and get it over with than bidding and possibly bidding again and then waiting for the auction to end.

And now for my disagreements and additions... (more...)

Fairly dull weekend -- didn't really get much of anything done. Hopefully I'll be more productive on these "days off" in the future. But maybe I needed the rest.

After I finished up my last day at the bookstore, one of the managers took me for a ride into some neighboring cities and showed me a few cool shops. At Creature Zone, I picked up another copy of 2046 (I'd gotten the film in Boston back in February, but unfortunately my copy was a faulty one that only played the first few minutes before giving in to skipping and glitches) and, at Tower Records, acquired three random CDs from the bargain bin. (more...)

It's official -- as of today, Wes is without a job. Let's see if anyone will hire the poor worthless philosophy major. Still waiting to hear back about that job I interviewed for a few weeks ago, but I'm not terribly optimistic given that, as of next Wednesday, that interview will have taken place exactly one month ago. Sigh. 🙁

In other news, for those of you in the market for a good online hosting service, look no further -- WordPress offers several hosting suggestions that sound pretty great. I'm not presently looking to switch over, as I'm not in need of any new features at the moment (my hosting plan, for instance, only includes three MySQL databases, but do I really need ten?) and I kinda feel like I owe 1and1 for hosting Scary-Crayon and the blog's first year for free (more/less, anyway, but the service has been good to us), but if I were the plan offered by Blue Host looks pretty hard to beat. Just a suggestion for those of you who use Blogspot hosting yet are tired of Blogger's downtimes and problems and whatnot. 'Cause WordPress f'n rules, baby.

All for now -- ja ne, minna-san.

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