Month: May 2016

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Interesting Coincidence

Since I’ve disconnected from job search sites and taken myself off headhunters emailing lists, I’m no longer getting SPAM emails.

In fact, I haven’t gotten any crap emails for weeks.

This makes me think…

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I always knew “Free” probably comes with strings. But I never imagined that job search sites and / or headhunters would sell candidate information to unrelated industries.

Yet that’s exactly what appears to have happened, at least empirically.

For all I know some government or governments cracked down on the folks that have been plaguing us with SPAM.

HAHAHAHAH! Government doing something like ENFORCING the law?!?

I gotta find out what they’re putting in the coffee around this place.

Although I suppose that some governments actually DO enforce the laws in their countries. Ours just isn’t one of them.

Anyhoo.

If any of you gentle readers have accounts on linkedin, dice, or monster, and you’re of a mind to experiment. Try closing and deleting your account. Then see if your SPAM levels drop. 

If they do… then perhaps it’s time to arrange a boycott of those sites.  Target has taken a hit over the bathroom dust-up, what would investors say about losses mounting in a web service that’s supposed to be helpful.

Just curious…

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Laundry Day Blues

One of the difficulties of apartment living…

Aside from being able to hear your neighbor fart! is that if you want to wash clothes you’ve got two choices, maybe three.

I’ve lived here for almost 2 months and I have yet to be able to actually do laundry here at the complex. Literally all of the washing machines and dryers are in use all the time.

I’ve been humping my clothes back to my house in the mountains. I’ve got big tumble machines and a whole house water softening system up there so stuff comes out clean and soft without much need for fabric softeners.

Down here, the water is hard and all the machines are top loaders.

Why has this become an issue?

Because the company has finally told me what my schedule is going to be, and in order for me to transition to the new schedule I’m going to be working at least 8 consecutive days.

SOOOO I really need to do laundry.

I could find a laundrymat, or a cleaners and have them wash my clothes, and it might come to either of those two options.

I can’t really blame the complex, It’s full of really old people. The may be my age but they’re OLD in mind and spirit. I’m an old soul but I don’t consider myself old!

These folks think old and when it comes to things like shared washers and dryers they think nothing of putting 3 small items in each washer.

So much for efficiency!

Anyhoo I’ll try again later perhaps when the next door neighbors start their nightly scream fest. I’ll be awake then anyway.

I can’t imagine what they’re going to think when I have sex here.

Muhahahaha

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Ya Know… Mother Nature you can be a real pain!

For the past four weeks, I’ve been having my car washed over the weekend.

And every single Sunday night it’s rained. Not the gully washing, rinse your car off kind of rain. It’s the misty congeal the pollen and dust in the air onto your car kind of rain.

So I get to have my car all nasty and streaky for the rest of the week.

Mother nature, Thanks for the rain… could I make a little request?

Could you hold off until midweek? Please?

I like the rain and all, but i’d like to get through at least a couple days in San Diego where I enjoy a clean vehicle.

It might even be nice to be able to drop the top on the way to work or on the way home.