So, The Big Interview.

I was going to post this yesterday, but got involved with setting up Yahoo stuff and registering for eBay, that I ran out of time.

My interview was at El Paseo Limousine, which is tucked into an odd little corner of Campbell. After a few false turns, I walked in.. and I was home. Drivers standing around chatting, The smells of a garages and wash floor... Notices to drivers taped up all over the place... its amazing how things like that can get into your blood.

I went into the office, asked for Mr. Brown and was told that he was away handling an emergency. Since I was traveling by bus, I wouldn't mind waiting. From what I could grok, they had a huge group at SJC for their big tour bus. The assigned driver never showed up for work. There was one other driver who had the proper license for the vehicle, and he was an hour away. No my interviewer was out playing peacemaker while they got the driver in, and out the door.

After an hour or so, I went back for the interview, and I can honestly say this is one of the few non-police interviews I have ever enjoyed. I wasn't asked to fill out an application, No BS like "what is your worst feature", just a professional dispatcher manager interviewing potential dispatcher about his experiences and abilities. He asked me how I would handle a call from a customer who wanted a limo inside an hour. Having dealt with hotels wanting vans in minutes, I calmly gave the "locate, contact, status, assign, advise" system that I used.
( Huh? Locate, con.. what the hell is that? )

Mr. Brown laughed and said that some people whined about needing three hours to do it right, and I replied, yeah, and I wanted the Giants to beat the Marlins.. you can't always get what you want!"

I'll know by early next week. Vibes, people, vibes!

The one problem is going to be the shifts he wants me to work..

Tue-Wed: 0630 - 1430 (or 1530)
Thu-Fri: 1600 - 2400
Sat: 0800 - 1600
Sun-Mon: Off

There is no way I can get to those first two days on the bus. Kiri's at work, and I can't have the bike repaired until cash comes in. I may ask my mom or murphymom if they could possibly haul my bod over until I get the bike fixed up. I see many, many miles of roadwork in my future as I build up those muscles.

Starting pay is $10-12 an hour. Benefits, after 80 days, include Kaiser. I know, but keeping me on kshandra's plan at SuperShuttle triples her premiums. When the time comes, we'll sit down and actually look at the costs and benefits.

Hangs head And yes, they have the Forty-Foot Hummer

Something like that

Discussing the OTO with jarlsberg71, he was a bit confused, asking:

Is this like the knight's of columbus without the bowling alley, with a higher IQ?

Strike for Hours, and Osiris leaves one standing!

I thought this would amuse isomeme. BTW Craig, he really liked the site.

Strange thoughts at 0104

Last night, while listening to the caffeine buzzing in my nerves argue with my grumbling GI tract, The following bit of profoundness came to me:

Do atheists have mundane revelations?

Wonder how much of Western Philosophy is due to intestinal distress?

I'm Doomed

Ladies, Gentlemen, Designated Others..

I have just surfaced from listening to the entire Metallica S&M album. The one recorded live in concert with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. At ear-bleeding, brain-cell killing levels. All two hours and more. From The Ecstacy of Gold to Battery.

What was I singing as I got up from the couch?

"Another postcard with chimpanzees.. And every one is addressed to me...."

Aiiiieeee!!! I am one of those people who is susceptable to songworms, and Another Postcard by Barenaked Ladies has the potential to knock It's A Small World After All out of the number 1 spot as the most insidious song of all time! My Ghod, had we had this song in 1989 when we were trying to get Manuel Noriega out of the Papal Nuncio in Panama? 24 hours of Another Postcard would have had him crawling out begging to implicate the entire Columbian cocaine cartel! This may be the solution to suicide bombers. Broadcast Another Postcard over the Hamas and Jihad controlled areas, and bombers will blow themsevles up as soon as they are armed!

Another Postcard could be the key to Word Peace! How can you fight a war if both armies are pounding their heads into trees and walls screaming "make it stop!" An alternative to capital punishment thart might really be a deterant! Life imprisionment in a cell that plays Another Postcard every hour. Can you imagine the space race? Just mention that no broadcast of Another Postcard has yet to reach the nearest stars, and we will have FTL drives in a month and the Exodus will begin! Screw the core explosion, we're fleeing Another Postcard! (There's a story there, us stopping to help poor alien races, or at least smash any sort of radio astronomy they might posess.)

On Earth, the only one left will be the deaf and those God-like few who don't get music at all. The deaf will inherit the Earth.

I'm learning ASL now.

"every one is, every one is, every one is addressed to me...." Damn!

The Recall

As I write this, the Networks are announcing that Davis has been recalled, and that Arnie is the new Governor.

Here are the numbers as of this second off the SFGate

Gubernatorial Recall Race by county | Map

California Statewide
Choice Votes %
Yes 498,993 51.7%
No 466,321 48.3%

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor/Businessman
Los Angeles Republican 456,797 52.1%

This is 31 minutes after the polls closed, with 4% of the vote counted.

Hey, guess what, the Gate just declared the Marlins the World Series Champs based on Game one of the NLCS!

Family Values

Next time someone talks about using Biblical law in America, remember these gems..

1. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5.) Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron 11:21)

2. A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed.(Deut 22:13-21) Marriage of a Christian and a pagan shall be forbidden. (Gen 24:3; Num 25:1-9; Ezra 9:12; Neh 10:30)

3. Since marriage is for life, neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any State, nor any state or federal law, shall be
construed to permit divorce. (Deut 22:19; Mark 10:9)

4. If a married man dies without children, his brother shall marry the widow. If he refuses to marry his brother's widow or deliberately does not give her children, he shall pay a fine of one shoe and be otherwise punished in a manner to be determined by law. (Gen. 38:6-10; Deut 25:5-10)

5. The law must preserve the duty of each citizen to burn an ox as a sacrifice, regardless of whether the odor pleases the neighbors - as it does God - or not. (Lev 18:22)

6. Each citizen shall have the right to sell his daughter(s) into slavery, setting his own price. (Exodus 21:7)

7. All citizens may own slaves, like in the good old days, both male and female, so long as they're foreigners. (Lev 25:44)

8. Any citizen who finds his neighbor working on Sunday must kill him. (Exodus 35:2)

9. Eating shellfish of any sort must be deemed "an abomination," with penalties set by local law enforcement. (Lev 11:10)

10. Any citizen with poor eyesight and who nevertheless goes to church, shall be guilty of an abomination. (Lev 21:20)

11. Trimming the hair around the temples should be a capital crime. (Lev 19:27)

12. Since touching the skin of a dead pig makes one "unclean," no one can wear gloves made of pigskin. (Lev 11:6-8)

13. Anyone who plants two different crops in a field, who wears garments made of two different fabrics, or who curses or blasphemes, must be stoned to death. (Lev 19:19, 20:14)

Well, isn't that special?

Holy Fark!

Proposition 54

Choice Votes %
Yes 1,495,578 50.0%
No 1,495,578 50.0%
32% of precincts reporting Last updated 10/7 10:15 PM

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