Friday, February 10, 2006
Yesterday's post seemed incomplete. I'm finally learning when I stop writing a post even if it's not finished I should just publish it. Or it will sit the queue for several weeks. That's happened before. So why not publish it even if not complete?
Not much else to say. Except I got a call from a job recruiter. He says he has a possible week or so contract lined up that he recommended me for. That was around 11:30 this morning. Then he said he'd call me back in 10 minutes or after lunch. Well it's 4:20pm right now and he hasn't called me back. So obviously he was just kidding. Hah-hah. Very funny. Tell someone you'll call them back then don't. I love when that happens. It never gets old, either.
Ok, you maybe thinking "why didn't you call him back". Alright that's a legit question I think. Well I'll tell you why: the recruiter calls me twice in a 10 minute time span, the contract would start on Monday in Reno (several hours drive, hotel required) and he told me I would be called back. Now it's his job, if he's really serious, to make sure someone contacts me. After all I am a client who will be working for a redicoulously low pay rate and making HIM money. I don't even know that I would make money at the end of the week given expense costs. So frankly if it's important to him let him call me.
Ok examine it further. He's the recruiter, essentially the employer. Be that very definition he has control of both the call and the entire situtation. To in charge and in control he must call the client and state what the situation and what's going on and when and to be where. No, really. I mean if it's a priority. Which I guess it isn't.
Alright I have had bad experiences with these recruiters. Sometimes it feels like I'm being "jerked around". Even I can only take so much of that. I don't like to be "jerked around" at all. I've almost gotten to the point I'm hyper sensitive to being jerked around. If he wants me he'll call me. If he don't he won't. That's about all there is. Who calls on a friday about a week contract starting the following monday anyway? What kind of notice is that anyway?
Alright, perhaps I should get over it. Perhaps this is all in my head. Perhaps I, being the one seeking employment, should feel compelled to call him back and see what if anything is going on. Or maybe my first view is right.
Update...
Alright so the guy just called. Told me the guy who requested an employee from him actually hasn't called back. So now the job will start Tuesday. You know I'm starting to have doubts here. Or perhaps my standards are too high? No I don't think so. So now I'm going to drive up to Reno, work four days, stay in a hotel and come home? Am I sure this is worth it? Is it really worth my while to do so? I mean really. At least I'll have a pay check if nothing else. Which may or may not bring me out ahead.
In other developments I purchased a new HDD a couple weeks ago and am only just now actually attempting to utilize it. Which is wierd for me really. Normally I buy something like that I'm all over it at earliest possible convenience. But not this time. Mostly I knew a whole lot of ghosting was going to be going on and I wasn't looking forward to those hours and hours of no PC use. But finally I got to it. And I was right. It's been at least two days with very little PC use.
But I'm done now. My C: drive was an aging 40 gig drive. Which is what I wanted. Easier to backup and smaller capacity HDD. Then I had a 120 gig and a 160 gig HDD making up my two categories of programs: actually program installations and games. Since I wanted to take the old mini-itx board I have had for a while and turn into an Apache/MySQL server for my room mate I decided I would use the 120 as the C: drive and the two 160s for programs and games, one for each.
So this would be tricky. I had actually made a partition on the 120 and called it G:. So when I got that first 160 I simply partitioned it as one big one and mounted it to g:\program files and move all the game folders in there. This was the easy/lazy way out solution that was worked quite well. So I took the new drive and cloned the games HDD to it. Then cloned the 120 programs HDD to the older of the two 160s. Then cloned the old 40 to the 120. Leaving me with the extra 40 gig for the server. Did any body follow that? Doubtful. Anyway it took quite while what with read errors and not letting me resize the partitions the way I wanted. I would have liked a 5.6 or so gig C: partition followed by a ~4 gig partition just for the page file. But apparently due to the size differences ghost wanted to scale the partition sizes up and wouldn't let me shrink them back down. So I finally gave up. A 15.9 gig C: drive is too big in my estimation. But I'm too cheap to buy partition magic or risk some other open source solution. Ghost just records MFT and data taking up that space on the drive anyway so it doesn't matter that much. As long as I keep shit off the C: drive.
For the server I'm having more difficulty. All the abuse I put the mini-itx board through must have hurt it some where along the line because for the life of me I can't get the optical drive to boot a windows install disc. So once again I turned my friend Ghost: used my main desktop PC that does actually boot from optical discs and installed Win2k to it. After formating and copying over some install files it was about to auto re-boot. At this time I inserted a bootable Ghost CD and ghosted the drive in that state. Then connected the drive to the mini-itx system. And, you guessed it, nothing happened. It locks up at the initial progress bar where you push F8 if you want safe mode. So now I'm kind of stuck here. ¶ 4:17 PM
Not much else to say. Except I got a call from a job recruiter. He says he has a possible week or so contract lined up that he recommended me for. That was around 11:30 this morning. Then he said he'd call me back in 10 minutes or after lunch. Well it's 4:20pm right now and he hasn't called me back. So obviously he was just kidding. Hah-hah. Very funny. Tell someone you'll call them back then don't. I love when that happens. It never gets old, either.
Ok, you maybe thinking "why didn't you call him back". Alright that's a legit question I think. Well I'll tell you why: the recruiter calls me twice in a 10 minute time span, the contract would start on Monday in Reno (several hours drive, hotel required) and he told me I would be called back. Now it's his job, if he's really serious, to make sure someone contacts me. After all I am a client who will be working for a redicoulously low pay rate and making HIM money. I don't even know that I would make money at the end of the week given expense costs. So frankly if it's important to him let him call me.
Ok examine it further. He's the recruiter, essentially the employer. Be that very definition he has control of both the call and the entire situtation. To in charge and in control he must call the client and state what the situation and what's going on and when and to be where. No, really. I mean if it's a priority. Which I guess it isn't.
Alright I have had bad experiences with these recruiters. Sometimes it feels like I'm being "jerked around". Even I can only take so much of that. I don't like to be "jerked around" at all. I've almost gotten to the point I'm hyper sensitive to being jerked around. If he wants me he'll call me. If he don't he won't. That's about all there is. Who calls on a friday about a week contract starting the following monday anyway? What kind of notice is that anyway?
Alright, perhaps I should get over it. Perhaps this is all in my head. Perhaps I, being the one seeking employment, should feel compelled to call him back and see what if anything is going on. Or maybe my first view is right.
Update...
Alright so the guy just called. Told me the guy who requested an employee from him actually hasn't called back. So now the job will start Tuesday. You know I'm starting to have doubts here. Or perhaps my standards are too high? No I don't think so. So now I'm going to drive up to Reno, work four days, stay in a hotel and come home? Am I sure this is worth it? Is it really worth my while to do so? I mean really. At least I'll have a pay check if nothing else. Which may or may not bring me out ahead.
In other developments I purchased a new HDD a couple weeks ago and am only just now actually attempting to utilize it. Which is wierd for me really. Normally I buy something like that I'm all over it at earliest possible convenience. But not this time. Mostly I knew a whole lot of ghosting was going to be going on and I wasn't looking forward to those hours and hours of no PC use. But finally I got to it. And I was right. It's been at least two days with very little PC use.
But I'm done now. My C: drive was an aging 40 gig drive. Which is what I wanted. Easier to backup and smaller capacity HDD. Then I had a 120 gig and a 160 gig HDD making up my two categories of programs: actually program installations and games. Since I wanted to take the old mini-itx board I have had for a while and turn into an Apache/MySQL server for my room mate I decided I would use the 120 as the C: drive and the two 160s for programs and games, one for each.
So this would be tricky. I had actually made a partition on the 120 and called it G:. So when I got that first 160 I simply partitioned it as one big one and mounted it to g:\program files and move all the game folders in there. This was the easy/lazy way out solution that was worked quite well. So I took the new drive and cloned the games HDD to it. Then cloned the 120 programs HDD to the older of the two 160s. Then cloned the old 40 to the 120. Leaving me with the extra 40 gig for the server. Did any body follow that? Doubtful. Anyway it took quite while what with read errors and not letting me resize the partitions the way I wanted. I would have liked a 5.6 or so gig C: partition followed by a ~4 gig partition just for the page file. But apparently due to the size differences ghost wanted to scale the partition sizes up and wouldn't let me shrink them back down. So I finally gave up. A 15.9 gig C: drive is too big in my estimation. But I'm too cheap to buy partition magic or risk some other open source solution. Ghost just records MFT and data taking up that space on the drive anyway so it doesn't matter that much. As long as I keep shit off the C: drive.
For the server I'm having more difficulty. All the abuse I put the mini-itx board through must have hurt it some where along the line because for the life of me I can't get the optical drive to boot a windows install disc. So once again I turned my friend Ghost: used my main desktop PC that does actually boot from optical discs and installed Win2k to it. After formating and copying over some install files it was about to auto re-boot. At this time I inserted a bootable Ghost CD and ghosted the drive in that state. Then connected the drive to the mini-itx system. And, you guessed it, nothing happened. It locks up at the initial progress bar where you push F8 if you want safe mode. So now I'm kind of stuck here. ¶ 4:17 PM
