"Wow, a long time"

So this time I've really waited too long to write again. I can go through phases of heavy and light writing, right? I'm aloud!

As mentioned in the last post the contract is "supposed" to last until late July. Well it's late June and I have no idea when the contract is ending. I'm assuming I'll make into July if not to the end of July. There just isn't anything to do for the lease roll agents such as myself.

Speaking of which we started with four lease roll agents. Then one left for any number of official or unofficial reasons I won't go into. So there was the three of us. Then just two days ago a second guy was let go. Again official and unofficial reasons. This second one was my buddy. I'd been shadowing him for a while when I was learning and going to lunch with him. I even contributed a couple entries to a join blog he had started (haven't done that for a long while either).

Then he and the security guard at my building realized they both loved the tabletop Dungeons and Dragons game so they started playing together. And since I didn't seem to object they invited me. Well I was always tired or ill or whatever and not that good at role-playing. I have a feeling I was annoying everyone else. Not everybody can adlib lines in-character on-queue. So sue me.

All these DnD sessions were at the security guard's house. We'd playing every Thursday night. Then for no explained reason said security guard simply stopped accepting calls from either myself or my buddy from work. Seemed a little strange. I mean I had trouble role playing sure but he and my buddy seemed really good friends. But ya so whatever then. I don't play DnD no more.

Since then we've had a lot of down time with a few full weeks sprinkled in. But mostly down time. But lots of over time on Saturdays when everyone was gone.

So here I am a theoretical month before the contract is out and I get a chance to interview for another firm (you'd definitely recognize the name) which would be a guaranteed year contract full time albeit for a dollar less then my current job. So it's either stick with ATT for unspecified amount of time and get lots of free over time or move to another firm, which probably won't have over time, be a dollar less an hour but be guaranteed another year. Ok maybe it sounds obvious. But my boss seems to really like me and I really like my job and everyone I work with. Also this second as-of-yet-unnamed-firm is about 20 miles closer to my house. So possibly the gas money would make up for the dollar less an hour. Also the traffic wouldn't drive me nearly as insane.

On non-work related fronts of information this new game, you may have heard of it, called Oblivion. I bought it the first day it was available for sale. Knowing full well my PC probably couldn't run it. So I thought "ok, I'm not going to bother installing it on account of I know my PC won't run it". So then that night I installed it and tried to play it. Didn't do so well in so far as one frame every two or three seconds seems a little on the low side, FPS-wise.

So it was decided then: build a new desktop computer. And for once make a decent one! A couple months and $1,000 later I had my new PC.  ¶ 6:22 PM