Ah, Friday!

[lynxreign]

Here I am at my last day on this job. The economy isn't great, but I have some leads on new jobs. I'm hoping my time between jobs isn't more than a month. We'll see. I'll probably apply for unemployment on Tuesday, or at least find out how long I have to be out of work before I can apply.

Seven more hours here and I'll be able to put this whole unpleasant experience behind me. I'm looking forward to having a little time off. I'm going to use the time to work on some programming: teaching myself new languages, working on my own projects, doing some for other people and boning up on OOP. I'm also going to continue going through my crap. I've another box or two of things I think I can get rid of and some shelving I can either give away or sell. I've already put my pinball machine on Craig's List and that's where the dvd/cd shelves would go too.

Unless someone reading this wants them? Anyone want dvd/cd shelves from Ikea?

Comments

[urnesha.livejournal.com]

Yay for last day!! Hope you get something much better soon.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

I could very, very easily see myself someday getting a pinball machine... I looooove pinball. :)

CONGRATULATIONS on making it to Friday. I hope that you celebrate the hell out of it!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

When I have a house, I'll probably be setting up my other pinball machine, the one I have no intention of getting rid of. You're welcome to come play that one!

Thanks and I intend to celebrate it.

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

Also, I think your plan to check out unemployment sooner rather than later is great. I'm sure it's a big bureaucracy and there's some amount of waiting time involved, so you may wind up avoiding any worry by removing the potential of not having it if you wind up needing it!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Yep, I've done it once or twice in NJ and it wasn't a big pain and it helped a lot. I pay into it when I'm working, so why not use it when I'm not working?

[head58.livejournal.com]

Speaking of celebrate, where do we want to get dinner tonight? Wanna play steak?

I have to go home to get my car but I'd be willing to bet that we'll be dismissed early.

I'm probably up for the first show but not the late one, sadly. Just a little too wiped out from this week.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

We could play steak, where do you have in mind?

If I stay the whole day here, I'll be home by 5:30.

I had a feeling that'd be the case. That's fine.

"Wanna play steak?"

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is not going to end well. ;)

"Baby, if I had to at all over again, you know I would... Because I LOVE STEAK!"

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Yay for getting out of there. Congratulations!

I would covet the cd shelves, but I think they won't fit zipdisks so well, and that's what I need to store. That, and cassettes.

Perhaps when I am old and grey older and totally bald I will have developed a complete elephant's graveyard of dead recording media. I've got the Victrola, cassette players, a turntable and cassette fourtracks and a digital 8 track that records to Zipdisc. I need an eight-track cassette player, and maybe a stereo reel-to-reel to feel like I've really got started.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Wow. Zip discs. I remember how great those were. And Jaz discs were da bomb. ONE WHOLE GIG! It was mindboggling.

Now, less than ten years later, I've got six gigs of RAM and something like 20 TB of storage. I <3 progress. :D

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I have a Jaz drive...

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Why did I just picture you saying that with Jazz Hands...?

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Yup. The Roland vs840ex was brand spanking new in 1998 and could record 8 tracks of (data compressed) editable audio to a 250mb Zip disc. 6 tracks, if you wanted better sound. A significant improvement in sound quality and editing ability over the cassette 4-track machines I'd come up with, though recording time was/is pretty limited.

[mekkasimian.livejournal.com]

MEK STILL HAVE TWO ZIP DRIVE.

REMEMBER... SCSI?!?!

=M=

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

ARGH! I hated SCSI!! I used to waste so much time troubleshooting the SCSI arrays I used to have. The worst was taking them on the road. The fucking things NEVER worked when I arrived.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

I have an 8 track player, a portable, wind-up victrola, a turntable (that can also play 78s), a cassette player and reel to reel tapes, but no reel to reel player.

Any DAT?

The shelves are wall mounted. If you'd like I can get one to show you this weekend.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

No DAT. When it was state of the art, it was too expensive for me. Then I got hold of a MiniDisc recorder, which worked nicely for taping rehearsals. That died on me a while ago.

I wouldn't mind seeing one, if it's easy for you to shoot.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

What am I shooting?

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

We still use DAT a fair bit for field audio. And AIT for media back-up.

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

What are these "cassettes" you speak of...? :p

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

They're those things you left in NJ for someone else to dispose of.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Ah! Wondrous things. Two spools of thin, magnetically charged tape, in a plastic housing. You needed a machine designed to convert the magnetic fluctuations on the tape into sound waves. What you'd do is, you'd put the cassette into the cassette player, press play just like on a CD, and then the tape would get all tangled up inside the player and you'd have to throw the whole shebang out and get a new one.

[mebib.livejournal.com]

Best of luck with your last few hours! Hopefully you'll find the perfect job for you the next time around!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

It would be nice. Thanks for the well wishing.