Posted in Life on August 30th, 2006 2 Comments »
Okay, I’ve been working in the pipeline industry for a week and a half now and the one thing that strikes me above anything else is that one engineering office is pretty much like the next. I’ve learned a few interesting things about the pipeline business but overall it’s just a pump pushing a liquid [...]
Posted in Religion on August 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
My friend Cat is a pagan. I don’t understand the draw to that religion but then that should be expected because I’ve found my religion and I’m very comfortable with the relationship it affords me to my God. I don’t understand the draw to Islam or Hinduism either. I’m sure none of the practitioners of [...]
Posted in Life on August 14th, 2006 3 Comments »
Two job offers came in this morning about thirty minutes apart. I’ve spent the bulk of the day trying to talk myself out of the job I wanted to take and into the other job. Either I wasn’t playing devil’s advocate to the best of my abilities or the job I wanted is the right [...]
Posted in Life on August 11th, 2006 2 Comments »
Things have gone well with my job search. I’ve interviewed with three companies and it looks very much like I’ll get a job offer from two of them. It’s always nice to be in a position to decide which job would be the best.
The job search this time around has reaffirmed some things I’ve [...]
Posted in Business on August 10th, 2006 No Comments »
This is why record profits by the oil companies isn’t something I’m perturbed about. The $100M is only a drop in the bucket compared to the loss of revenues. Somedays you get the gold mine other days you get the shaft.