Ah I'm so sorry to hear that. Glad you got to spend so much time with the goodest boy.
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I'm happy you got a good, healthy time with your boy. A good dog is a beloved family member and its never enough.
I've been on the other side. When you get 70 resumes and cover letters for ONE opening? You really don't bother with the letter. Just get me to the credentials. You wouldn't believe how many people apply that don't come close. But if I need a data base engineer, and I have one with great creds and long job history? Not worried about his/her cover letter.
Some other job hunting frustrations:
1) Company advertises an opening that isn't there as to would be investors, a company that is hiring looks like a healthy investment but again: there is no job opening.
2) You are invited in to interview for a job that isn't there. The interviewer (whether principal or head hunter) simply wants to pad their inventory of people to call if there ever IS an opening.
3) You go to a job fair. Most jobs there are door to door sales, including one to sell pool chemicals. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS A THING!
4 interviews seems excessive. I've only been involved with one like that and it was for a very high falootin position. Ended up the one the boss wanted was a fabulist loon who threatened to sue us for bringing him in so many times only to decline him the position.
Sorry to hear, and that’s exactly what my dad said when he returned from the vet for my childhood pet. Said she was such a fighter right to the end too. Golden Retriever. She was the lead b!tch of her litter and a good home alarm system. Retrieving toys? Yes. Actual pheasants when out hunting? Not so much. She used to also drag me around the floor like a ragdoll playing tug of war with a towel in our younger years. A purebred so barely made it into her teens.
Proof that cats are evil: we went to a memorial service yesterday for my gf's friend who passed away. The parting gift was a flower for everyone. We brought it home, put it in water, and today, we woke up to it half-eaten on the floor. What creature, under God, would consume a sentimental remembrance? A fucking cat.
"Some Guys" have installed some electricity cables in the cellar for my neighbor. Somehow managed to break my phone cable/internet by "not doing anything with it, we swear"
Well, my neighbor "graciously" offered some leftover cable for a new line...
The installation is absolutely horrid (I was hoping to never have to touch this. I will try another pairing first, and if it doesn't work i will try to mend the line. No way i am laying another connection in this house. (It comes out underwall in one room, but somehow ends in the cellar on the opposite side of the stairwell. How and where it goes? NO ONE CAN KNOW THIS DARK SECRET. (Also my gas takes another way with my housebell/buzzer, power takes a third and also down to cellar again, water a forth)
This house is madness. Also slept 30 hours at the weekend and didn't do the work i am behind with. Yay. good start into a new shit week.
Well, my neighbor "graciously" offered some leftover cable for a new line...
The installation is absolutely horrid (I was hoping to never have to touch this. I will try another pairing first, and if it doesn't work i will try to mend the line. No way i am laying another connection in this house. (It comes out underwall in one room, but somehow ends in the cellar on the opposite side of the stairwell. How and where it goes? NO ONE CAN KNOW THIS DARK SECRET. (Also my gas takes another way with my housebell/buzzer, power takes a third and also down to cellar again, water a forth)
This house is madness. Also slept 30 hours at the weekend and didn't do the work i am behind with. Yay. good start into a new shit week.
I saw an ad with the guy who plays Kevin in The Office. And it's one of those ads. A mobile game with utterly nonsensical "gameplay" that is clearly misleading. Wonder what the dude is going through to have to sink this low.
Our pool pump shit the bed after the most recent freeze spell we had. Started making a weird noise that progressed into a high-pitched whine that had even the neighbors calling and complaining. We had to sleep on the other side of the house for a week since it's situated right outside our bedroom window, and the sound was impossible to ignore or get used to. Well, it finally up and died. We hoped we could just replace/repair the motor to the tune of a couple hundred bucks, but of course it's not that easy. They don't make our model of pump anymore, and the unit isn't modular, so we have to replace the WHOLE thing Gonna cost us over $1,500! And here I was planning on buying my Xbox Series X with my taxes here in a few weeks, but mother nature fucked that plan WAY up the ass. Guess I'll have to wait until I get my annual bonus in March (if we even get one; leadership is hemming on hawing on that probability,) but I'm sure something el$e will break/go wrong making any frivolou$ $pending on a videogame $ystem look like a proper dick move.
RENT, PEOPLE!! Home ownership is for suckers!! "Equity schmequity," you can't take it with you. My plan is to live here until we die (probably via murder-suicide since I can't trust my gf to hold up her end of a proper pact, the filthy coward,) leave our bodies in the house, burn it to the ground, and salt the earth so nothing else can be built here.
RENT, PEOPLE!! Home ownership is for suckers!! "Equity schmequity," you can't take it with you. My plan is to live here until we die (probably via murder-suicide since I can't trust my gf to hold up her end of a proper pact, the filthy coward,) leave our bodies in the house, burn it to the ground, and salt the earth so nothing else can be built here.
Dude, you don't have much luck with your pool do you? Have you considered filling it with concrete to teach it a lesson and then digging another pool next to it, just to drive the point home?
No luck at all. That thing has been one problem after another for years, and the problems get increasingly more expensive each time. I'd love to fill it in, but that'd not only be expensive in and of itself, but properly guarantees the following summer would break records for high temperatures and make me wish I hadn't filled it in.
My take away from this is that pools are for suckers. Same as boats.
On a related note, apparently my nephew is one of 3 or 4 people in his school that can swim.
Considering it's pretty difficult to own a pool without owning a home (a home in which plenty of other expensive problems are likely to come up,) I'd offer the problems start at the top, and trickle down to the nuances within. Just saying, we didn't build the pool, it came with the house.
I need this in my life, but it's too expensive. My soul cries out for it
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Pre-kids, my personal highest standard of living was a gigantic 2 bedroom apartment with a front to end giant deck. BBQ pits, basketball courts, a club house, swimming pool and wading pool. Tennis court. To give you an idea of the time frame, I had a 40" rear projection 480i TV and it was the biggest fricken TV I ever owned. I'd never seen much bigger before. And my wife let me keep my LP player at the time! Since then, got a house with a 30,000 gallon inground pool. Kept it up and running for about 10 years and the kids loved it. And then buried it, just in time for about 4 bad Summers in a row in which I wouldn't have used it anyway. (Either too cold and wet or so dry you dare not use a pool when living on a well). Nice field behind my house now
But yeah, buy a house and you own it and every problem. Ton breaking on me now. Just got the kitchen faucet replaced after a flood. Waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Aw, my local Game Mania (think less malevolent version of Gamestop) has closed. That kinda sucks. I didn't shop there often, and as stores go it was a far cry of what it once was, but it was on my route home from work, so just convenient to drop in and grab something.
It's actually the fourth games store I regularly bought from that closed this month, tho the others were online shops.
It's actually the fourth games store I regularly bought from that closed this month, tho the others were online shops.
What freaks me out is giant multiplex theaters I grew up with are closing all over the place.
New model they're trying out: release a movie in theaters and then, shortly after, put them on your streaming service. In the last couple of months of movies I went to the theater to see? One movie already on Apple, another on the way. Trying to see things in the theater to support the industry I love.
Been a long time since I watched a movie in theaters. I think It Chapter 2 was the last one. Honestly, don't feel like it anymore. Will probably make a exception for Dune Pt2 tho.