Daily Archives: March 18, 2004

The day started when I woke up. Surprisingly, I actually felt refreshed… As if I had gotten a full nights sleep. So I got up and headed to work. Grabbed breakfast at the usual Bagle Place (They know my order there when I walk in… Ham, Egg and Cheese on a Roll with Coffee and one of those tiny containers of OJ).

When I got to work, we were asked to volunteer to take the day off because we were above our quota for payroll. Seeing as I hate the job and most of my critical work was done, I volunteered and left. I headed home eager to take the A+ exam (See my earlier post!)… I met my mother for lunch and then headed out to a Technology Open House… Turned out to be with a recruiter, however she had opportunities with two big companies. One that I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to work for but have been unsuccessful so far. I’m hoping to get a call tomorrow… Wish me luck!

In the evening my mother and I went to Borders to pick up the new A+ guide so I can refresh on the new materials prior to taking the test. I was pleasantly surprised to find a $1 clearance table LOADED with computer books including some on ASP.NET, XML, and WAP….. All stuff I’ve worked with but don’t really own any reference materials on… so $60 got me 7 books… .normally valued around $300 or more.

Finished the night watching TiVo (Yay the TV works) and playing on There.com …. There is a cool VR/3D environment that offers games, puzzles, chat, etc… Similar to Virtual Places I guess only with better graphics.

Anyways, I’m tired now and gonna get some sleeeeeeeeeeep 🙂 g’night

Okay. I recieved a big screen (51″ I think) from a friend of mine who “didnt have room for it” anymore…. He got it free from some rich family that wanted a new one because one of the tuners (this is one of those tvs with PIP) died. he had the secondary tuner hooked up as the primary and it worked great! Well, I had it and the inputs all started to die… The picture got all messed up and fuzzy. Looked like an old TV does when you adjust the VHOLD.

Anyways, Tonight it mysteriously started working again. The picture is clear, bright and wonderfull 🙂 It’s been a good day….

Okay, It seems that the world is out to get me!

Work “requested” that we take the day off again. They just aren’t making the sales to warrant us working full time… Bastards! I figured I could take advantage of the situation. I was in a good mood, I was alert after a good nights sleep, I was going to go get my A+ certification today…Schedule to go in the aftrernoon and spend the morning cramming 🙂 It’s been a few months since I’ve picked up the book.

Well, I go to sign up and guess what… THEY CHANGED THE FUCKING TEST!..AGAIN!

I was ready to take the A+ many years ago, but had a stable job with an Internet Service Provider so I “never got around to it”…. Bad idea, as they made the test a bit harder added some new stuff to it. So, when the ISP closed down and I found myself looking for work I realized I needed it. So, I studdied and studdies and studdied… Got another job that took up most of my time and A+ got put to the back-burner. Now, I hate my job and I had an opportunity to take the test so I refreshed. Then called to make the appointment and found out that THEY CHANGED THE TEST AGAIN!

I took a practice exam and flopped bigtime… I think I got 5 out of 5 wrong already. Stupid stuff too that I just hadn’t gotten much exposure to. So…

I think I’ll head to Borders and pick up the NEW study guide(s)….

They better not change the test again before I take it!