Job Interview!

Ok well whoever has been reading my blog, if any that is lol, has read me post about how I will be out of a job soon and that I was looking for a new one. Well I have an interview this Thursday, tomorrow at 9am and man oh man do I hope I get it. If I don’t it will be based on these factors:

  • I am in school, will they be willing to work with me on a schedule that works with my classes.
  • I cannot do early morning shifts.
  • I need at least some weekends off, I can work some, just as long as I get some off, I will need weekends to work on one of my classes, which is an internship.
  • They just don’t like me or give me a chance.

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    I am trying to be positive but its hard for me, not so many positive things happen to me so I am used to the negative… Pay is decent, the listing said they have benefits, its easily accessible via public transportation if I have to go that route. If I get this job and I get some security that its not gonna end in some months, or something crazy like that then I can look into purchasing a car or something and finally learning to drive… yep I am 26 and do not drive… I’ve not needed to learn, I don’t have a car, I couldn’t have afforded insurance, there was no reason to learn. If I get this job and its a long term thing then its something I can then look into, meanwhile I will try and not be so nervous and hopefully do good on this interview.

    I have set so many things on hold because of the stress of being out of a job soon. I’ve not been able to work on my Android font pack, I’ve not been able to concentrate on site stuff, I’ve been stressing on my credit card payments and my monthly bills, stressing on how long the money I do have will last me so I can keep paying my bills for a bit, one of my cards, if not paid off by the end of the promotional APR I get ALL THE INTERESTED ADDED ON!!! The interest is like 27% or some ridiculous number like that.

    Well wish me luck for Thur! Meanwhile I think I will take one day and relax. I can’t go to work today for my normal shift and was thinking of going to a later shift but that might not be possible either due to some family stuff, (today’s my nephews birthday! He’s 12 years old today! I’ll post his picture later, or you can go to my Flickr and search for Gabriel in my uploads! Actually as of right now he’s showing up on my Flickr section on my site right now, the little boy with the messed up hair and white shirt).

    If I am lucky I will be watching Eclipse today as well! Not sure if I can work it in with some stuff going on today.

    Blog Catalog & Google Friend Connect

    Ok well first off I joined BlogCatalog to maybe get some readers who comment, and also to get back into the world of commenting myself. I follow sort of the big tech news blogs, news sites, etc, but not personal blogs, not in a long time. I thought it was time I did get back to regular people, and maybe find some blogs I enjoy reading. If you a Blog Catalog member leave me a comment, I’ll come visit you! If your non a Blog Catalog member leave a comment anyways lol!

    Well after joining the above I decided to add the Google Friend Connect widget to my site… just one issue… it was not working. I tried about 2 different wordpress plugins and the code from Google’s Friend Connect page as well, no luck with either 3. I then decided too google for the answer, and came across this page, that says to add this to a version of something not sure if its a theme or something else… well I copied the code and decided to toss it in my TEXT box widget that holds my GFC Widget code from Google and it worked. So if you’re having issues where its not loading, try adding this code above your widget code.

    <script>
    window.JSON = {
    parse: function(st){
    return st.evalJSON();
    },
    stringify: function(obj){
    return Object.toJSON(obj);
    }
    };
    </script>

    After that hopefully your widget works for you!

    New Theme, small updates…

    Ok so if you visit my site you know I like to change looks now and then, while the last one I used was great, I decided I needed a change. I decided to go with Bueno, a nice looking WordPress theme. I changed the color a bit for the default mode (comes with different color schemes), to something that I liked better, and took out the dots in the background as it comes originally with polka-dots.




    Aside from this, I am still looking for a new Job, my sister is an idiot, and its hot in my house… yep, pretty much covers it.

    Updates, life, yada yada…

    Well I’ve not updated my android font pack which I swore I would do, and I still plan too mind you… I’ve just been real stressed out over the fact my job will be ending soon, and I don’t even know how soon exactly. I will be out of a job either June 30th (Eclipse Day!!), or the end of July. Not knowing exactly when I will be unemplyed adds to the stress I already have knowing no matter when it is, I will be unemployed soon. So stress upon stress, and more stress upon that from being unable to find a new job. Why am I going to be unemployed? No I am not being fired, more like let go, budget/financial reasons. My boss would like me to stay however there is no money to pay me to stay, as well as 4 other co-workers also losing thier job, which is bad for my employer because they will be short handed, just now while writing this I had to step away and help 4 different individuals with something computer related.

    Well, aside from all I plan to update my font pack as soon as I get a chance. I almost lost my current font pack because this weekend a hard drive of mine decided of all things to do to me right now, to fail. Or so it seemed, as soon as I got rid of somethings and purchased a new internal HD and stuck it into an enclosure to make it a external HD (2TB) and have me spend more $$$ than I should have being as soon there will be a even more shortage than their is now in my bank account of $$$, and then to top it off… it seemed to work again like normal. I then learned that its reccomended you leave about 15% free on a HD, mine was a 500GB which is acutally about 465GB (which I think is bullshit, they should just market it as a 465GB HD not a 500GB HD), so 15% of that is about 69GB, plus the 35GB you lose form the 500 because its really 465GB, you end up with a little under 400GB drive, you lose about 100GB, total crap IMO (the amount your actually getting, not the needing to leave 15%). Anyone got any reccomendation? Do you leave 15% free GB? Should I? Should I leave less? I had about 30GB free out of the 465GB when this began to happen.

    In short I am soon to be jobless, I spent more $$$ than I should have to replace a HD that decided to make me think it was dying, and then seem to recover after I purchased the new HD leaving me out $$$ I could have not spent had it not done what it had.

    Stress, stress, stress!!!!!!

    Amanda Bynes Tweets she’s retiring from acting…

    So Amanda Bynes took to her twitter on the 19th early am hours and tweeted she has retired from acting, “I’ve never written the movies & tv shows I’ve been apart of I’ve only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play,” was the first tweet followed by, “Being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem, If I don’t love something anymore I stop doing it, I don’t love acting anymore so I’ve stopped doing it, I know 24 is a young age to retire but you heard it here first I’ve,” and closed it with a #retired. I for one hope this is either a late April Fools day joke, or a really really early one. Amanda Bynes is one of the only down to earth decent young actresses in Hollywood… please do not leave us with the actress’ like Megan Fox… can’t act and only get a job because of her looks. Someone should start a #reconcider+dont+retire+Amanda+Bynes, maybe I will.

    Karate Kid

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    I took my 2 youngest nephews, and my niece to see this last Sunday at the Harkins at CTown, we had to wait almost 1hr and a half in line which would not have been too bad had they still had benches to sit, but nooooo, some dork kid fell and hit his head so they removed them, great cause someone can’t watch their kid others suffer. ANYWAYS, once we got into the theater things went pretty good, and then the movie started.

    It had a slow beginning but moved along fast once they got to China. He meets a kid that we think may have a big role in the movie but he don’t. I guess they needed him to talk to a local kid somehow (although this local kid is American), in order to get him to the playground where he first meets the bullies of this film. The kid in the middle played by Zhenwei Wang, names Cheng in the movie is the “bad guy” in the movie, and those surrounding him, his bad boy posse. They go to town on Dre played by Jaden Smith who if you don’t know (you must live under a rock), is the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. In the images below they are getting back at him for dousing them with some oil or something.

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    It look’s like he’s about to get the beatdown of his life until Mr. Han steps in, played by of course Jackie Chan, this movie’s Miyagi. Now it’s been  a long time since I’ve seen the originals (and no “The Next Karate Kid” does not count as an original, it was crap!) but I don’t think Miyagi was that angsty in the flicks. I thought they could have done better with Han showing Dre how to fight, there seemed to be more “drama” than “fight” but maybe thats how the originals were and I don’t remember.

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    Now what I do remember of course is the “Wax on, Wax off,” which I am sure everyone has heard once in the life. Where was this movies “Wax on, Wax off.” Well its in the form of, “Jacket on, Jacket off.”

    thekaratekid_wallpaper_03_1600x1200Why did the fighting start? The same reason as every other movie, a girl.

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    All in all the movie was ok. I know many people went out to see this just to see how good or bad Jaden Smith’s acting was. I do think he could have done better in some of the scenes but all in all he did a great job for his first movie, and it was nice to see (after the movie during the credits) photos of his parents with him during filming, and seeing the fun they had watching their son begin something that started a long time ago. If your a fan of the originals expect a more updated feel, expect more angst, and expect the audience filled with kids for the new generation, and adults from the old generation clapping and cheering for scenes that made them think of the original movies.

    (pictures copyright The Official Website and Filmofilia.com)

    Friday @ Phoenix Comicon

    Updated June 9th to add pictures.

    Ok so its been a week and I’ve not made my Fri, Sat, or Sun posts about Comicon but I’ve been busy. Anyways here it goes…

    Friday was the first official full day of the con. I arrived early and checked in at the Hyatt where my sister and I were staying with a friend we met on the Phx Comicon board names Jedi Rabbit, he cosplayed as a jedi but with a rabbit head, he was a big hit. Anyways Jedi was kind enough to share his room with my sister and I so we were able to stay there Fri night and Sat night, it made things soo much easier. Anyways, we checked in, got our stuff ready, I my camera’s and lenses, my sister her stuff, and headed to the convention. I began by first heading to the exhibitor’s room and shooting pictures of the crowd. From there I shot pictures of people in costumes, specifically kids in costumes as they were adorable and we were asked to try and get images of kids in costume, I mean a 4 year old dressed as Optomis Prime is so cute.

    After that I saw John Schneider and James Marsters sitting next to each other, 2 of my favorite actors right there next to one another, awesome and convenient. I was a bit surprised as they had signs up that said no posed photos, and one of the actors had a real mean ass of a manager. He was rude without warrant, and gave you a feeling of not wanting to be near him. He was just plain rude and jerk that entire weekend, and every time I came across. I don’t know if he thought I was trying to bypass their photo op fee or what be he was rude, I wasn’t trying to get a image with myself and the actor in it, I was shooting images of the actor for the convention, to turn in to that convention photographer managers as that is what I was volunteering as, a photographer.




    Anyways, enough said about said jerk… talking to John was like talking to your dad, or uncle, or someone you comfortable with. He was very nice, and his hair still looked great. Talking with James was a bit different, he was hyper and you felt like things could explode at any moment but in a good way. He would just burst into a laughter and it was funny! Sadly I could not get a photo op with either as it was too expensive. JS was $30 and a signed photo of him as Bo or Jonathan Kent was about $20. JM’s photo op was the most expensive I believe of all the guests at a whopping $60. Now to be fair we were told that most of the money was going to charity but there was no sign as to what charity, or of anything at all about a charity, we were just told that. What was even more sad was that just an autograph was $45 dollars even if you brought you own item. I am sorry but in these times if people want to give to charity let them on their own accord, and don’t mix it in with a autograph or a photo op as it just makes them lose a bit of respect for you. Now I think it’s great that he wanted to share the proceeds with charity but for times right now, it just wasn’t acceptable for me and many others I spoke with. Now don’t get me wrong, I think the JM is great and kind and everything and don’t hold anything against him, its just some people wont and did not see it that way. Anyways, maybe one day I’ll get their autos on something, but lets move on…

    That night my sister was going to be in the Zombie Beauty Pageant and I was going to go shoot that and take some video of it. Before the pageant there was going to be a walk through the downtown streets of Phoenix, a Zombie Walk. It was hilarious to see non-convention people just starring at all these people dressed up as Zombies. (I’ll post images here tomorrow, as we were asked not to post anything until the 8th to allow the convention to upload the images to their flickr account first). There was these 2 girls chained by collars to sticks that were held by these guys dressed as like Zombie S.W.A.T. agents. The amount of makeup and detail some people did, it was great.







    Now let me say the pageant was great and entertaining especially when the Phoenix Ghostbusters got on stage and sang and danced to the Ghostbusters theme (while tossing twinkies out to the audience) it was also painful. Let me explain. The pageant lasted about 2 hours, for those 2 hours, the ENTIRE 2 hours I as well as a few other photographers, had to be on our knees. Needless to say my knees HURT and I mean HUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTT by the time it was over. They hurt for about a week after and sadly I did not have the lens to shoot in such low light, that was my main issue all week. I just don’t have a $2,000 dollar lens to shoot with. I hope that what I did get, is enjoyed by the con and the people who see it.

    After the pageant I took some photos of Calabrese, a rock band. I also took a pic of my sister with one of the members with my sister still in her zombie makeup, I’ll post that here later too.




    Then it was Rock Band time!!!

    Wil Wheaton’s Rock Band, a 4 hour event of people playing Rock Band with Wil Wheaton in their band. I really got to give it to Wil, he stayed their 4 hours and played the entire time, except when he went on a bathroom run lol. He was a drummer, a base player, a guitar player, and lead singer. Felicia day also jumped on stage to play the guitar and then do some back up dancing for a song Wil was singing, while waving some glow sticks. This entire event was awesome!! I’ll be posting some video I shot later, but you can find some on youtube already, just seach Wil Wheaton Rock Band Phoenix Comicon 2010. This was the last thing I did on Fri as it was a bit after 2am when it ended, after that I went up to my room in the Hotel as this was held in the Hyatt, and tried to sleep.





    Sat and Sun posts coming soon…

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