We’re sitting at home having another lazy weekend. Yesterday’s the first time either of us has played a game on the Xbox since we left Austin. We’ve been using the Xbox for a media center nightly but as far as games are concerned we just haven’t bothered. Casey’s mission as of yesterday was to beat Assassin’s Creed this weekend. The last time I looked at his achievements he had 61% unlocked so he’s well on his way as long as there aren’t any more controller-throwing induced sequences. We played a little bit of Guitar Hero 3 last night and I’m pretty surprised it didn’t take us long at all to get back into things. There’s some marathon on TiVo right now and both tuners have been going nonstop for hours now. I’m not really sure what its recording but at least there’ll be plenty of content on the TiVo now.
I’ve heard that after nine hours negotiating on Friday, the writer’s strike may be ending this week. Fingers crossed that actors don’t start! Unfortunately I’m wondering how many new episodes will come out this season since hiatus usually starts in April but at this point I’ll be grateful for whatever I can get.
Still no job yet. I had been offered and accepted a position as a tech writer/editor out at Schreiever Air Force Base as a government contractor. But the Friday before the Monday I was supposed to start, something was held up with the paperwork in the interim investigation (they’re not 100% sure what but have some ideas none of which is of any significance to be performing the job). The people at the company were very nice and tried to do everything they could to get around me needing an interim clearance because they were confident my full clearance would come back approved. But the customer at Schreiever wasn’t able to wait the 3 months the investigation would have taken so things didn’t work out. I’m still pretty disappointed about the whole thing but I’m trying to be optimistic and listen to everyone else around me that’s saying that everything happens for a reason and it wasn’t the job for me. Even after I had already been offered the tech writer job and was under the assumption everything was going as planned, I still went to an Excel/scenario test for a buyer position at one of the hospitals here. This is the second assessment I’ve taken for this position. The first one was a week after I had applied (the job req was only posted for a day) and I had to do an online skills assessment type thing that took about 45 minutes and based on that they would be continuing on with the selection process. I have another interview scheduled for Tuesday morning. So this is the third step in the interview process and the first time I’m meeting face to face with someone. I’m really hoping this position works out because I’m so sick of the hunt and all of the interviewing. I’m due!