Holy cow, is it Friday already?
Indeed it is.
I’m taking a 5-day weekend due to stuff like “having my 80 hours in by Wednesday Night” and “Ah, jeez. I need to study for my Security + test again.” So I’m spending this weekend studying and hitting all of the stuff like “oh, yeah… I remember warchalking” and “ah, jeez… I’m totally going to never remember the differences between 802.11b and 802.11g”.
So study, study, study, take a practice test, study, study, study.
The good news is that there are two breaks baked into the cake. On Saturday Night, we will go over to Dman’s for our biweekly gaming group and we’ll go back to playing Descent: Road to Legends.
On Sunday Night it is the GRANDADDY OF THEM ALL!!!! WRESTLEMANIA!!!! We’re going to have wings! And sides! And dessert! We’ve ruled that WrestleMania Meal is officially a cheat meal! (Though Sunday itself will *NOT* be a cheat day in its entirety. Just WrestleMania food.)
And then, on the last day of the five-day weekend, study study study, take the Security +, pass it or fail it, then, if I pass it, buy a bottle of wine and tell Maribou that she can dig up the copy of Crimson Peak I bought and asked her to hide and then maybe set up a date night with Maribou for the following weekend that involves celebration. And, if I fail it, just not talk about it as I study, study, study some more.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Photo is “Footrace finish line, 1925” from the Seattle Municipal Archives, used under a creative commons license)
I’m going to Ashland, Oregon!!!
I can’t wait to see my old college campus and wander around downtown next to the Shakespeare Festival! I’m going to hit all the restaurants I used to love when I was going to school there, and the comic book shop, of course! Maybe I’ll see a play at the college or one of the smaller theaters in town. Or catch at movie at the indy theater I worked at while going to school. Oh, I want to do the walk on that gorgeous boardwalk next to the river and go to the beautiful park right downtown. Oh, and I want to hit all the of wineries to stock up before I go home! There’s so much to do!
Also, my little brother lives there with his family now. I’ll crash at their place, I guess. 😉 My sister is going to have her second baby shower, so that will be fun too.
How nerdy is it to hit the bookstore and stock up on gear with your college’s name on it when you graduated like six years ago?Report
Whenever I go back to my college, I just feel like that guy who says “that building didn’t used to be there… the library didn’t used to be this big… the professors were older…”
The shower does sound fun.Report
I picked up another Masters Degree at the University of Denver a decade ago, and when I stop to duck into the library there, it’s already like “Where did all these buildings come from?”Report
The Friends of the SF Public Library is having one of their massive book sales this weekend.
As I alluded to last a few weeks ago, I was laid off on March 18th in a staff reduction. My office mate lost her job as well. The whole thing took 18 minutes from being called down to HR to being out the door. So I am regrouping. The legal job market still seems anemic. My dad raised the possibility of starting a firm with him and Lee and possibly one of Lee’s friends but I would need income in the meantime.
I have had way too much stop and start over the past four years.Report
That sucks. Putting up a shingle with your family, though, sounds like a pretty terrifying yet sweet setup.
You go from being laid off to being made a full partner.Report
I am really sorry to hear that @saul-degraw, I too have been laid off and boy does it suck.Report
@aaron-david
Thanks Aaron. What the firm seems to have done is laid off three lawyers from the Bay Area office and hired two lawyers for out of state offices. A business decision through and through.Report
Good luck, man. A couple things: because you were laid off, you are almost certainly eligible both for unemployment insurance and for redeployment programs under WIOA and I’m sure some California statutes as well. Also, the most important factor in finding a new job is recent full-time employment, so it should be easier this time around.Report
@chris
Thanks. Sadly this is not my first time on unemployment in the past four years. So I am a bit of an old pro at this thanks to recession and changes in the legal economy.
I am not sure what kind of WOIA program is good for someone with two advanced degrees though.Report
@saul-degraw
I know that feeling all too well. Although employed at the moment, I have endured 3 rounds of layoffs over the past 20 years, and had to jump hastily a few others, when I could sense a work slowdown approaching.
Which illustrates the modern gig economy. White collar professionals like architects and lawyers are the poster children of Doing It Right, the guys other people point to as exemplars of How To Create A Secure Future.
Yet my job isn’t any more secure than the janitorial gig I did in college. It pays more, when I get it. IF I get it, IF the bouncing ball stops on red instead of black.
Like I mentioned before, how do we make a life plan, how do we make sense of our lives and make commitments with this sort of volatility?
Dynamism and opportunity have a flip side, which is volatility and risk. Yet we rarely hear anyone talk about the concept of and economy with too much “opportunity”, or an excess of “dynamism”.Report
I’m very sorry to hear it, Saul.Report
Discovering whether the doctors have seen fit to hold my husband captive or not.
Spoiler Alert: it would be a bad idea to do so. They know this.Report
Good luck to you both?Report
So, they let him go home, and now he’s been called back for more testing…Report
I am driving to Dallas on Sunday to see it live. It will be my second Wrestlemania in person. My first featured the retirement of Ric Flair and a pyro mishap that injured audience members on the other side of the stadium.Report
Oh, my gosh! I’m so envious! The biggest show I’ve ever been to live was a Thunder Taping for WCW way back when. Remember when M. I. Smooth told David Flair to “be smooth”? I was there for that!Report
“The good news is you won’t have to sit through the whole thing. The bad news is that’s because we’re going to set you on fire.”Report
Dude. When you recover, I totally want to know what those of us at home missed.Report
I am judging for the state science fair. I’m waiting for the bus to take me downtown so I can catch a ferry to Bremerton. Got the grade school kids this afternoon, then the high school kids tomorrow (gonna stay the night at the Navy Lodge).Report
If there’s a volcano, flip the table.Report
It’s the state fair, the grand poobah, I expect homebuilt fusion reactors.
If there is a volcano, it better have actual, flowing lava.Report
I think I’ll mostly be spending the weekend recovering from dental surgery and snuggling with the cats. The surgery really wasn’t that bad but I keep dozing off any time I’m not actively moving around (yes, this makes work difficult) – so apparently I need some recuperation time.
Plus chores.
It should be nice.Report
Done judging the science fair. Anyone interested in a post/report of the experience, complete with an epiphany regarding education funding?Report
Yes, please. It’s been 20+ years since I was at a state-level science and/or engineering fair. I’m interested in how much it’s changed.Report
I would *LOVE* to read it.Report
Just got back from a weeks vaca on the coast. Quite nice!Report