So, it’s been nearly two weeks since I was handed my notice, I’ve still not been able to find a job, but I have now officially signed on. This is something that I have been dreading, not for any snobby reasons, though some of the white lightning swilling wasters that you see at the job club do make you think twice, mostly it’s because it’s almost like admitting defeat, that despite my planning and hoping, I’m not going to be able to get a job sorted before things start backing up. Luckily, all the unpleasantness was made infinitely more bearable thanks to Carol, the kind and funny woman who guided me through the process, put me at ease about everything and answered all my stupid questions as if she’d not already answeres them twenty times that morning.
So thank you Carol. You’re a star.
Here goes.
This is the first week that I’ve officially been out of work since I moved out. It’s really scary.
I’m signing on tomorrow, and I’ll be getting in touch with Portsmouth City Council to find out about getting housing benefit. I’ve also got a job interview, and I’m signing up with yet another agency and I’ll be trawling through the job centre website to see if there’s anything there.
I’m also going to try and quit smoking with Beca, so we’ll see how that goes. I’ve not lost any weight for a little while now but then, to be fair I’ve not really been trying. I think that I might use some of this unexpected “free time” to get some more exercise.
I miss working at Queensbury already, I had a really good time working there and I’d grown quite fond of a lot of the guys that I worked with. C’est la vie.
That’s about it now.
I like orange soda…
Is it true?
Uh huh. I do I do I do I do-ooh
So, I’m trying out wp2go on my android phone so I can see if posting from my phone is usable. So far it seems to be going well. I honestly don’t understand why people have this thing against on screen keyboards. my old Samsung F-700 “smartphone” had a proper slide out qwerty keyboard and I’m here to tell you that that keyboard was a pain in the arse, it was cramped, the keys swung from unresponsive to hyper responsive, with no happy medium, and getting to unusual characters, say square brackets or less than signs required going through several layers of menues, heaven forbid you want to use a european character say ñ or ø. The android keyboard on the other hand is fast, obviously not as fast as a full sized keyboard, but it’s only 3 inches across, and accuracy is definitely a strong point. I’ve got nice big fat thumbs (easily covering a quarter of the screen) and yet it just works™, with just the occasional typo, and thanks to the T9esque word prediction, even they are caught. Long live the android platform and long live well implemented on screen keyboards.
(Typed on on screen keyboard on HTC Magic)
