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throwing Olivia off
Wednesday, November 17 2021
I had an interview late this morning with a recruiter for a tech contracting firm based in Chicago. The recruiter was named Olivia and the call didn't go over much more than what was covered in an earlier phonecall, though this time we could see each others' faces via a video link. I was feeling relaxed and confident because I'd taken a recreational dose of pseudoephedrine early this morning. I also have a job, at least for now, so there's no urgency to get a different one. But a couple things I said seemed to throw Olivia off. The first was that my present salary is $100,000 year (only a $2,500 exaggeration) and that I'd have to get more than that in any new job. The other was that I have no college degree or tech certifications, that I am entirely self-taught. I found myself having to explain certain things to Olivia that she should've known, such as what a LAMP stack is, so she isn't all that bright or she's very new to her job. In any case, it's unlikely I'll be getting a job through her. But it's good to begin the process in case bad things start happening at my workplace. I should mention that this was the first time in my life that I ever interviewed for a job while employed.
I have a new webpage to check in addition to all my usual haunts: the one with the graph of the cabin temperature. The sawtooth pattern of rapid heating and gradual cooling continued last night, a pattern that disappeared once the sun came out and the cabin experienced passive solar heating. The sun must've been good today, because the passive heating continued until nearly 3:00pm, at which point the sawtooth pattern returned, though by then the cooling was happening more slowly due to warmer outside air temperatures.
At the end of the workday, I drove down to the Stewarts in Old Hurley just to get a sixpack of Hazy Little Thing IPA and a unit of cashews. On the way back home, I continued past our driveway and went to the big quarry back off Lorenz Road. There I collected three pieces of bluestone for use as pavers at the cabin. They were thicker than I would've preferred, but I could use them as steps or just bury their roots deeper in the soil.
Back at the house, I made some sort of spiral-shaped pasta, boiled with cauliflower, with a side of fried chonkiness for the sauce consisting of pan-seared tempeh and long strips of red onion. Unfortunately, when Gretchen returned from the bookstore, her stomach was still upset from the Moderna booster she'd received on Monday and all she didn't want to eat any vegetables, though tempeh was fine. Fortunately, she was able to pick out the chunks of cauliflower and strips of onion.
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