This, that, and the other thing!

It has been one busy week, there was a job fair here in town Tuesday, my brother and I both attended it. My brother received a call today and is starting a job next Tuesday! Praise the Lord!
I have a job interview tomorrow morning with a very good company, I'm sure praying about it. The position is a good one and I have used a considerable amount of the equipment used in the position. It is a job that would make a nerd like me happy, very technical.

Beyond the job search Charles and I have worked on our parents vehicles, Mom's needed front brake pads, rotors, grease seals, repacked the wheel bearings, and an oil change and a lube job. (10 Zerk fittings!) Then it was Dad's truck's turn, oil change, universal joints and a lube job. (Only seven Zerk's on his)

Wednesday Charles and I also did a system restore on his netbook, and notebook, both had some type of bug affecting them, and it was easier to back the files up and start all over.

I've been spending between up to three hours a day looking for jobs on-line, MichWorks, Yahoo Hot Jobs, Career Builder, Indeed.com, and a couple of other sites end me jobs through e-mail each day. Then there are the corporate career sites like Amway, Kellogg, Sara Lee, AT&T, Consumers energy, etc. they all have job postings on their sites that you can apply for, that is how I got the interview with General Motors. Once in a while there will be precious little in the e-mails, but most of the time I find two or three jobs to apply for.

I did some work on the Compaq SR5710F desktop I picked up recently, I added a media card reader. The reader was designed to go in the spare floppy drive bay, this computer didn't have one so I used a bay adapter and put it in the spare optical drive bay. Although it isn't as fast as I'd like, it is MUCH better than nothing!

Lest see? what else? A friend gave me a notebook that has a bad GPU in it, I was excited to get it, there are plenty of other components that I could use. When I opened it up however, I found it had been stripped down, the memory, hard drive and the power supply had all disappeared. The friend who gave it to me was not pleased at all, he didn't know that parts were missing, I'll have to check back on that one.

Time to head off for now, the coffee is calling me loudly already.

Have fun all!

Me!