FriendBurst Blog

In my apartment.  At my computer.

“What are you doing today?” she continued her grilling.

“Well, let me read to you from my to-do list!” I responded proudly.  I rattled off my plans for updating my resume, re-posting it to the Washington state JobSource website, finding 3 jobs online to which I’ll apply  and then a series domestic tasks that even though they weren’t employment related, completing things like laundry and doing the dishes will make anyone feel better when they are on a to-do list.

Okay.  Like I said, my mom knows me and that I might slip into slackerdom and was prepared to kick my ass if she felt that was occurring.

“What did you do yesterday?”

Damn.  She got me.  Yesterday was my sacrificial slacker day.  In my head, I knew that here it was, the first business day of my renewed unemployment.  Much better to make one of the end days of that period a blow off, do-nothing day than somewhere in the middle.  Right? I didn’t do crap yesterday but watch cable news, waste time on the computer and masturbate (although I did not share that last fact with my mom).

You might remember a few weeks ago where I talked about my “dream job” seemingly falling out of the sky.  The state license I need to do the work for which I’ve spent the last year in school is unattainable for me until March of 2012.  But my education was done.  I couldn’t keep going to classes and collect unemployment as I’ve done for the last year. I have to get a job, and of course, I want a good job that pays me commensurate with my 20 years of experience.  That kind of job seemingly fell out of the sky at an on-campus job fair that I just happened to run across during some downtime between classes about a month ago.  I was really very disheartened after not receiving a call from that company two weeks ago after I had applied.  This was my dream job.   I was perfect for it. They could not find a more qualified candidate.  This was the job that I had before and excelled at and was fired from unfairly for reasons that were not work related. Oh, this was the fulfillment of my future and in my head, I already had the job.  But I never got that call.

For the last 10 days or so, this has put me in a bit of a funk.  Lord knows, I have had to readjust my life plans many a times in the last 14 months, but this one seemed so promising… all I wanted was a chance to interview and impress them with my in person qualities.  The call from the middle management HR guy never came.

Given that I thought I had nothing to lose, about a week ago, I sent a very candid e-mail telling them why I’m the best appliance salesman ever and they should ignore whatever automated screening tools they might use that might have disqualified me based on something ephemeral like a credit score. Maybe that e-mail got forwarded or something because…

I GOT A CALL TODAY FROM THAT VERY SAME HR GUY WHO SAID THAT THE STORE MANAGER IS VERY INTERESTED IN MEETING ME! I GOT AN INTERVIEW FOR FRIDAY! I know that with my qualifications and “charm”, put me in an interview and I’ll get the job

I’m also very fun at work parties.  This blog started off as a one of my periodic “review” blogs where I present videos of stuff that I had done this week X number of years ago. Four years ago this week, knowing that I was going to a work party, I got “DARED” (something I used to entertain as a videomaker) to get my co-workers to sing Queen’s “We Will Rock You” on video…

I should be so lucky as to be blessed with such an interesting group of co-workers in my next job.

Now, for the music portion of this blog, I present to you Crank Dat Soulja Cat… I don’t even remember WHY I made this video, suffice to day it was my first and hopefully last foray into the genre of hiphop.   This is from three years ago yesterday, a time where a young rapper named “Soulja Boy” was big on internet… Funny, we haven’t heard anything from SouljaBoy since then.   This is my feline version of his official vid for CRANK DAT.

Finally, something political.  It was two years ago at this time that we had the big protests in Iran surrounding their elections and I made this video in support of their movement.  They were eventually quashed, but at the time, no one was sure what was going to happen.  Funny no one connects the 2011“Arab spring” that has gotten so much attention from places like Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Qatar and Syria with what was happening in Iran in 2009.  True, Iranians are not Arabs, but Iran, Iran is not far away…

This vid has gotten lots of views and I did make the subtitles in Arabic…