Close call

I never thought that I would have the nightmare of getting a call back for a job you didn't think that you would get. Getting a call back is great, but if you applied to the job and forgot what the job was about... Yeah. Fortunate for me, I found the job through the Career and Placement Services at U of A and they keep hard copies of their job postings. I'm not sure for how long after the date has closed, but it was long enough for me to come by and get a photocopy of the posting!

I'm going to head off to the LDS Employment Center and do some practice interviews. A friend of mine recommended it, and it helped him land some jobs to boot. If it worked for him, it should work for me. Seeing that there is a lot hinging on this interview, I should be as prepared as I can.

Another happy thought is that there is room to think in our apartment again! My mother-in-law came by and helped organized about half of our apartment. You never realize how much room you have until you clean up! There was a heap of stuff that I forgot we had, and some stuff I posted on Freecycle. I don't know if I'll get rid of it or not, probably because I mentioned that I would prefer pick up only. If I had a car I would drop stuff off! Or if I was on my bike again. It's the middle of winter right now, and I don't want to destroy my bike with the adverse weather conditions. Although it has been very mild for January. I'll wait until March to get back on the saddle. Maybe April.

Until then, I have DDR to keep my fitness level up! After the spat I had with my manager, I realized that I can't play DDR at the level I want to, and so I resolved to wait... until I got to my in-laws. They have no trouble with me bringing along my PS2 and the dance pads, and using their 51" TV, so long as no one else is using it, and I'm not playing it in the middle of the night. I thought that my sister-in-law would be willing to let me use her PS2, but silly me didn't realize the hassle that it took for her to set it up in her room, and the hassle it would be to take it down. Okay. If that's the way it is, I would just bring along my hardware and use that! And I did. Rather, Caitlin and I did. She took the console and the games, and I brought the dance controllers and the cords.

What's that? A typo? Because I only have one dance pad? Mais, non. Recently, Friday actually, I found out that one of my co-workers is a huge gamer, and had a dance pad that he was no longer using since he sold his DDR games in order to buy an XBOX 360. He might get the DDR games again, but it was easier for him to sell it to me for $20. HEE HEE! Now I can play double! I was also hoping that I could do some two player rounds, but maybe next time. It's not like those things have an expiry date on them.

On the same note of video games, Caitlin and I went to go see Video Games Live. I wrote about this in the baby blog and I'll leave it at that. I got to get going, and I've been sitting in front of this iMac at the SU computer lab long enough. I was surprised my Campus ID still worked. Probably will until April. Meh.

Caveat Rent-or

For Christmas, I got a PS2. More of a grad gift, but still, it's in the house, and it's great. Got the digital output hooked up to the amp, and we got some crazy sound pumping. I was also able to obtain a copy of Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA, and it included a dance pad controller. One stupid thing I forgot.

The game is really noisy. If it's not the music, which you can turn down, it's the hoping around. I would think that was the tip off to my manager, who happens to reside in the apartment directly below me. Getting a knock on the door at 11pm is never a good thing. Being told that such activity is inappropriate at ANY time was also a good kick in the head. Furthermore, this comment about the anytime parameter for the noise factor (which is law, another kick to the head) is backed up in the lease as well, and recommended that I read it. For some odd reason, I cannot find the lease. I'll have to ask for another copy, because I was sure that I had it in my briefcase. The welcome package was there, as was the inspection sheet.

Caitlin agreed that I was a little loud with the game, since she called for me to turn it off and come to bed. Twice. I never responded. Next time that happens I hope Caitlin will take a bit more of a drastic or dramatic measure.

This really is not fun. For years I've had this dream of having a home version of DDR. Well, congrats to me, I have it. What sucks is that I may not be able to play it the way I want and still keep my apartment. And I was thinking that my biggest problem was keeping the dance pad from sliding out from under me.

Funny fact: When I bought DDR SuperNOVA, I was also given a Gilette Fusion razor, free. This perplexed me, because you usually don't find personal hygene supplies in a video game store, never mind free products sponsered by the manufacturer. Then again, this might be the start of something more. Next we'll have Nivea sponsering some facial cleansers, and then Old Spice sponsering to ensure that gamers a least have deoderant on hand.