Even then, all they have to do is make a few phone calls. At this point they’re nothing but a middle man that will simply hand over all the crap that I’m faxing to them to my prospective employer. I’d rather just cut them out if that’s the case. I can drive this info over to them tomorrow morning and have this squared away and start then and there. This is a useless process if they’re depending on me for all of the corroborating information.
Background companies really have been doing jack shit lately. A friend of mine just had to fire someone they picked up recently. Her background check came up clean, but she was caught stealing from people on the job. A second investigation revealed a federal theft conviction, but the company only searched state records. oops.
So I walk out onto our screened in porch with my wife (she goes out there to smoke, and I sometimes join her, though I don’t smoke). I decide to go get the mail, and she says to wait because there is a deer nearby. That’s pretty normal. It’s in my neighbor’s back yard, but I would have to walk close enough to possibly spook it. I also see a fawn with it, so I don’t want to mess with it. They can be mean in that situation. In fact, I was about to find out how mean. After a couple of seconds of watching it, I see another fawn walking up behind it. The first fawn was ahead of her, but I could barely see it through the bushes.
That’s when the first fawn starts to run roughly towards us. The mother takes off after it. As it rounds the row of brush between our lawns, I notice that it’s not a fawn at all, but a red fox (perspective can do that, and it was a similar color to the actual fawn). The mother deer is chasing it. The fox is terrified. It shoots across our back yard, heading for the trees. The deer is already in the trees, tearing them up as it keeps running. It chases the fox about 200 ft or so before deciding its fawn was no longer in danger. I’ve never seen a fox around here (only been here two years), so I was surprised to see it. But I’ve never seen a deer chasing a fox ever. It was pretty exciting.
Today I saw a homeless woman performing oral sex on a homeless man right on the side of the street. They were across from a Starbucks. I was waiting outside with the dogs while my wife got her breakfast. She bent down, grabbed his junk and went for it. Later she pulled her dress all the way up over her breasts to reveal a lack of underwear and ground her ass into his crotch. That’s the second time I’ve seen a nude homeless person in NYC. It was certainly a memorable morning.
I saw a deer chasing a coyote once. It was many years ago, when I was walking my dear, departed Newfoundland in the woods. A flash of coppery fur blazed across the trail ahead of us, followed by a gray, wolf-like creature, followed by a large whitetail doe. Must have been a fawn the coyote was chasing.
So does this make you miss LA? Or love NYC?
-xtien
“Behind his horned-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat.”
In this case it makes me miss LA. It was a bit fascinating to watch but more than anything it was disturbing. They were both acting in a mentally disturbed sort of way (I suppose you’d have to be a little mentally disturbed to do that in broad daylight on a busy city street) and that was a bit discomforting. Every day I don’t see a homeless person BJ on the street is a good day.
tromik
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I know you didn’t mean it that way, but it almost sounds like schadenfreude.
“I’m not happy unless the homeless aren’t having sex!”
Still, depressing that a dude who wears his winter coat all year and keep all his belongings in a bindle is getting more action than me.
Oh, god, now I sound like the jerk!
So apparently if I want to get laid, I need to stop just looking like a bum and actually become one.
Hipsters are doing it wrong as always!
I’m at a campingsite on a lovely island 1 hours driving and 2 hours sailing from Copenhagen. Camping was never my thing, but hotels aren’t that fun for kids (here they make new friends almost every day and can room freely) and the prices for a four persons vacation is much more reasonable… it’s starting to grow on me.
Yesterday I grilled freshly caught turbot, small lobsters and shrimp…
So last night I am having this weird dream where someone or something is screeching at me. Slowly, through a fog, I wake up. I’m laying there for a moment when I realize it’s someone’s car alarm going off. Then as I’m listening to it, getting irritated and groggy, I wonder who’s it is. We all park on the street around here. I look out the window and hmmm, that kinda looks like my car.
So I put on a pair of shorts but no shirt, go downstairs with a flashlight like I’m right out of episode of COPS, and shine it on the car. Yep, it is my car. I shine it around and don’t see anyone. For about 15 seconds I had convinced myself that there was someone sitting in the driver’s seat, but it was just a trick of a foggy brain and the light. I hit the “lock” key during this and the alarm stops. I go back to bed.
This morning when I’m going out to my car I notice I left the back windows about halfway down. Is it possible some reached in the car, put some pressure on the back windows laterally, and that’s what set it off? I have no idea how car alarms work but I imagine it’s some kind of pressure sensor.
Many types of car alarms exist, but they all consist of some form of sensor (pressure, motion, etc.) attached to a siren, as well as other common parts of the circuit. It’s common to hear car alarms equipped with pressure sensors go off when a jet flies low overhead or a noisy car (emitting a lot of bass) drives by.
So, after I faxed them my transcript and various W2s I found the check is apparently done and I now start my new job on the 9th. Hooray for work, then vacation a couple of weeks after I start!
Some of them must also be operating on a similar frequency to other vehicle remotes. I can remember a couple of occasions where my folks would remotely unlock their vehicle, and another car’s alarm would go off. We repeated it a few times just to be sure, and it happened every time. Couldn’t have been mere coincidence, with that frequency, and simultaneity.
Siren
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Threes. Things keep coming for me in threes.
In the past three months (May, June, and July), I’ve had three people I know die (suicide, stroke, and cancer), three people I know have been in car accidents, three jobs that I’ve lost (was fired from one, turned down one for another, then the offer letter was rescinded for the third), and three living situations fall through.
I am homeless and unemployed.
However, I am thankful for the amazing friends I have here in San Francisco who have offered me couches and have fed me, and given me odd jobs to do here and there. I’ve not had to sleep on the street, and I’ve not gone hungry. Learning to ask for help has been a humbling experience. After my divorce I’ve been rather obsessively independent, so swallowing my pride has been difficult.
My previous job (the one I was fired from) did not pay me enough money to be able to save anything, really. I was living from paycheck to paycheck and supplementing my income with two occasional jobs. Oh, and they’re fighting me on unemployment too.
I just want to work and have a place to live.
Ugh, hope that all improves soon, Siren.
I just spent much of the night in an emergency waiting room. Oddly, the waiting room TV was turned to MTV. Among other things, I watched my first episode of Jersey Shore which just seems like a variation on the Real World, but with more floozies and sex.
Anyway, the weird part was when it eventually turned to AMTV and they started playing music videos. I saw half a dozen times an MTV promo (kind of like I want my MTV) that was basically a small visual segment of the relatively new LCD Soundsystem video, but then masked with the MTV Logo and white background with the words LCD Soundsystem written above the upper lefthand corner. It was maybe 5 seconds top, very short. Anyway, that was alternated with the same basic setup, but footage from a No Age video.
However, in all the time watched it (5 hours or something) they never once played either of those videos. Instead, I got treated to a cycle of various hip hop groups, Beiber, Usher, Enimem, some tween pop crap multiple times, an old Jimmy Eats World video, and Jay-z’s Hard Knock Life.
That is what’s wrong with MTV. Half a dozen times they show me a promo of a video I actually want to watch… and in 5 hours pretty much show me nothing but the antithesis of that.
Not to mention you just saw the entirety of their music video play per month. Excepting for the occasional times they carve five specific minutes out for a video, like Katy Perry’s California Girls, but even that’s best enjoyed on mute.
Even MTV3 and the others past that have a stunning lack of music now. I’m not sure how much it bothers me, though, since the rare times with music tend to be unbearable. I think I’ll just stick to YouTube.
This is how out of touch I am. There’s a third MTV now?
