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The job hunt saga.

May 9, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

What a day.  I was awakened by my girlfriend at just after 7am this morning.  It was really great to hear her voice after the day she had yesterday.  She ended up in the emergency room due to a killer migraine.  They gave her medicine and fluids and sent her on her way.  At the time, before we knew what was wrong, I was totally freaking out.  

I digress.  So I woke up this morning around 7am and talked with my girl for a bit before starting my day.  I finished filling an application with the convenience store chain Circle K, which was not the easiest user interface to work in.  Afterward, I caught up on my massive amount of email, all three or four messages.  Then I stopped by my usual online hang outs, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and a few others.  I got all my resumes printed and bound; they are now ready to go when I submit them to various firms next week.   By this time, I realized that I hadn’t yet eaten, so I scrounged around the kitchen a little and settled on a Chocolate Fudge PopTart.  Yummy, until I drank my milk. YAK!  Which reminds me to throw out that milk after finishing this post.  

It is now around 1pm and I am starting to think that the day is gonna be a waste, so I called my girlfriend to see if I could bring her something.  Come to find out that her parents had just left the house for a while and it was just her and the kids.  YAY!  I jumped in my truck, and headed over to her place.  I got to spend some quality time with her just hanging out at the house.  Good times.  

Around 3pm, I left her house and was dead set on filling an application at the near by Publix so that the day wouldn’t be a total waste (in terms of the job hunt).  It took me about 20-25 minutes to finish up at Publix, so I decided to head toward Target and Wal-Mart.  By the end of the day, I put in applications at Best Buy, Publix, Target, Wal-Mart, Win-Dixie, Lowe’s, and got applications for Home Depot and Office Depot.  It felt great to be making some progress toward getting a job.  

Next week I will focus on my resumes, and trying to get hired by a design firm or print shop.  Someone gave me the idea of job hunting in Mobile, which is about an hour away from here, Pensacola.  I don’t know if I want to go that far yet.  There are plenty of places to try and get hired here in Pensacola, so I may wait awhile on that avenue.  I guess, in the big scheme of things, anything is possible.

Installations Galore

May 2, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

I installed Flock, AIM, and Instant Bird today.  Among all the work I have been doing on danielvining.com, today I also installed AIM for the first time since at least 2006.  I grew really tired of all the junk associated with AOL in general, so I dropped the service.  I currently find myself in a position where having this service will provide yet another means of contact to friends, relatives, and my online community friends.

Since I do have multiple service accounts, I am experimenting with an all-in-0ne chat client for the first time.  I choose Instant Bird to start, but I will most likely try out a few different clients until I find the best one for my needs.  My needs are simple.  One client program that can accomodate my Yahoo, AIM, Skype, IRC, and G-Talk accounts.  I don’t expect that I will be able to totally meet those requirements, but I am going to try.  The possibility of having one program take the place of four or five is enough to keep me searching.  Suggestions are welcome.

Finally today, well actually a couple days ago, I installed the Flock web browser.  I started exploring this interesting browser based on the Mozilla engine.  So far, I am a little over whelmed by this alternative take at social aggregation.  It is going to take a lot more time and exploration before I can decide if I like it over any of the others.  My current browser of choice in Google Chrome.  Perhaps the reason for this Chrome’s simplicity.  It has plenty of features for me, including being able to save a shortcut as an application.

I installed these programs to better help me communicate with anyone on the internet.  My bet is that the more old fashion means of communication will still stay in the foreground.  Telephone, Email, and IRC.  Only time will tell if I will decide to use an agrigator to condense the many perspectives I get from using the many different programs, but I am willing to give it a try.

New Addiction: Facebook

April 30, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Well, try as I might, I could not help but to fall into the massive void that is Facebook.  I know, I know.  I am very late in the game, yet that doesn’t change the fact that I am now addicted to this service.  

I was an early adopter to Myspace, Facebook’s rival in the social networking game, back in 2005.  Within my Myspace profile, I grew a better understanding of HTML, got my fix on adding as many friends as I could, and kept in touch with friends in both my hometown of Pensacola, FL  and the place that I called home for five years, Minot, ND.  As 2005 drew into 2006, and 2007, I became a bit over saturated by Myspace.  By 2008 it had become the place where I would watch people continue on with their lives, while at the same time I started to respond less and less.  I was tired of Myspace.

Jump to now, 2009, and I have found new life in social networking, through Facebook.  It started with wanting to create a more professional social net presence that I felt Myspace could not provide.  Facebook for me has begun to overtake Myspace as my number one most visited site thus far this year.  I keep a Facebook page open all the time, and constantly check my email to see if there are any new updates.  Never a big fan of Myspace Apps, I don’t see myself changing that on Facebook.  There do seem to be more apps that truly cater to networking.  Although I don’t like how hard it can be to find new friends on Facebook, I feel that overall the user experience on this social network is safer.  

I don’t know if this new “addiction” will last as long as Myspace did, but I do know that I am enjoying this service now.  It is a huge tool that has let me reconnect with a ton of old friends, and expand into new relationships in both my personal and professional life.

Today I spent a good deal of time catchi…

April 25, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Today I spent a good deal of time catching up with some dear friends from my past on Facebook. It was a good feeling to say hello to some people that I haven’t talked to in a long time. I also spent some time editing my Facebook account. I also worked on my Linked In online resume, and my paper resume. Not bad for a Friday.

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