Who's looking forward to the Real NJ Housewives?

Damn you Bravo with your "The Real Housewives of" series!!! Really, before tonight, I had no interest in watching your latest bunch, those from why-oh-why New Jersey. I mean, you already did New York, why bothered with its closest next door neighbor? I was fine when you did Atlanta, because frankly, those ladies were very entertaining. Unlike the ones from the OC, whom I grew to like then back to dislike this past year. I wish you would just quit it, but no, you had to find these other "housewives" to keep me glued to you every Tuesday night.

Yes, tonight's preview episode of them NJ spoiled, big-haired, tacky women turned me around, pulled me in, and wouldn't let go. I see what you did Bravo, now 3 of these 5 are related, and there's that Soprano/Family/Blood-is-thicker-than-water thing going on. I wouldn't think it would matter, but I was wrong. The dynamics with those sister-in-law's and the one who might end up totally broke thanks to her divorce, and what did I just hear, she was also a hooker, madam, or something? Damn! See Bravo you've done it again! Damn you! Now I'll have to watch it when the real NJ "Italian-scented" housewives takes over the real NY "Jewish-flavored" housewives' time slot in a few weeks just to see who will become the most wicked, and the bitchiest, and the tackiest, and (gasp) the poorest on the show! I'm so looking forward to it it's not even funny.

Another shot at the same job posting

I applied for 3 jobs today, one was another retry. Make that tri-try. It's a different process this time though. The company has gotten all fancy with its own screening procedures online. Maybe they won't remember me?

They are probably scratching their heads now thinking, "OMG it's THAT guy again! This is like, the 1000th time we've seen his resume! Doesn't he get that no answer means NO THANK YOU?"

Well... to that I say, "What do I care?!" All I have is time. And the power to improve that application (I hope) each time it's submitted. By the way, why aren't they done with the search? It's a position that keeps popping out every other month. I don't get it.

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Another night out

I had a great dinner with Jose Dave Regina and Anjelo tonight. It felt liberating to laugh and eat and joke and relate to each other. Mandarin Deli always treats us well. The food was delicious and perfectly cooked. We had no complaints! Later we went to Jose's to have a special dessert Dave got. It was another Claim Jumper frozen pie, coconut cream... It was good, but a little rich for me. Tonight was a truly yummy evening from the start to the last bite. So happy!

And I haven't been able to stop dancing to this song after Jose helped me find it:

Jen's Bday

I just got back from Jen's birthday dinner at Messob. It was a lot of food and laughs among old friends. It's always nice to get out of the apartment every now and then. Everyone was concerned about my unemployment, I wanted to act cool, but it was better to be honest. I don't really know when the job will come and if I will be happy with the next job. I just take it one day at a time and watch my spending. I know whatever happens I will be ready.

Full & Happy

I ate too much. My nice neighbor asked me if I wanted to go to Hometown Buffet with her after I came back from the gym. I was planning on having the leftover soup she gave me, but I didn't want to say no. So I said yes. She was cleaning and wasn't going to leave for another hour and half. Since I was kind of hungry, I ate the leftover from my lunch with Cameron, then took a shower, and waited. We went around 3:20 and finished this very late lunch by 5. Needless to say I was stuffed. After spending a short while in TJMaxx, we came back and I started to get ready for Dave's. I know, I just had big all-you-can-eat meal and I was about to eat again! I picked Cameron up in Little Tokyo before 6 and together we went to Dave's. Fortunately the dinner didn't start 'til 7. I was surprised that I was able to eat more. Citrus salad, deep-dish pizza, grilled brussels sprout and pear almond tart, what can I say, I have a big stomach. Dave and Jose showed me the new Wii game, Animal Crossing: City Folk, that they just got and it was TOO CUTE. I dropped off Cameron around 10:30 and hit some serious traffic on the 10E on the way home. This was a full and happy day.

Resume file size

Why does Craigs List limit the file size that you want to send to the job poster to only 150K? Why can't it be 200K?! I usually send out my resume in PDF and generally have no problem with job sites, except for Careerbuilder, which only takes the resume in Word or Copy/Paste.

Today right after I finished and sent out my resume to the CL poster my email bounced right back, telling me I exceeded their set limit. I wonder why I never had that issue before? So I tried different PDF export options but none was able to reduce the PDF size to less than 150K. Then I decided to use Word and created the PDF via print. It worked, and the size was smaller, but it just didn't look as good. The font and the spacing and the formatting and the whole page simply looked off. I could keep on modifying the resume and try to make it look nice in Word, but it was just not measuring up to the InDesign version. So I just typed the resume content in my email body with some necessary formatting. Away it went. Did 3 today.

Will I finally get a job this month? Hope so!