Eseme's Den

I am trying LJ mobile on my Kobo Arc. I am hoping this will make it easier to hop on daily, and catch up on everything since early April.

What has happened to me since April? I spent much of April emptying a storage unit with most of two bedroom's worth of stuff into one bedroom. Also April and May had a lot of sorting and unpacking and I am still not done yet! I have a lot of stuff...

Mid May, when I was feeling like the stuff might be starting to be under control, brought the revelation that my beloved PT Cruiser needed more money in repairs than it was worth, and I was suddenly car shopping. I now have a Kia Soul, and thanks to some financial help and an auto loan it is, at 22,000 miles, the newest car I have owned. I love it, it is Alien Green.

My new job is less new. I still have a lot to learn, and there is a lot of stress at times, but it is overall good and I like it.

I have spent the time since buying the car sewing a dress for a friend to wear at an upcoming convention (next week) and taking stock of my hobbies.

I hope everyone is well!

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It's Interview Meme time again. This goes around like a virus every couple of years.

Best virus out there.


1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.


On to Lissa's questions! ( answers, long as usual )

Celebrating the new job.

Made pasta sauce, and decided to add some nice wine for flavor: a Berringer White Merlot.

Dad and I had a glass of that with the meal (I know it will go well with the food- it's in the food).

Dad decided to buy me nice wine to celebrate. I like sweet red wines and blushes. Neither of which can be a "good wine" according to wine enthusiasts. Bah, I say.

He went to Tess's Market, of course. That's the place to buy wine around here. Tess was a guy who really liked wine. So while it has the look of a small corner market, nothing special at all, I've been told that they have the best wine selection in the Mid-Coast area. Sadly, every time I've tried to go they have been closed. Dad was able to get me a nice Bully Hill red, and a blush from somewhere.

He aslo got a desert wine, from a winery here in Maine. He asked for some after our pasta, although we had no desert. I poured a half glass of the blackberry wine, as there is less in the narrow bottle. Dad said that was a good idea, as it had been fortified.

I took another look at the label. Winterport Winery (of Winterport, Maine). The Flying Dutchman. Blackberry wine... and yes, the good people of the Winterport Winery have indeed seen fit to fortify this wine- with grape brandy.

Damn. This is some of the best stuff I have tasted. I really must get more so I can host some sort of housewarming party in style.

So, I'm... alive. And not online much.

The job at L.L. Bean is great, I really enjoy helping customers. It's just that the "part-time" seasonal job is giving me 40 hours a week. And many of those are the 4:00 PM - 12:00 AM shifts, where I sleep until 11:00 AM and then get out a couple of resumes for library work, drive in to my job, work, and get home at 1:00 with enough energy to read. No real internet time for me.

I want to update on all sorts of things since I've been in Maine, and it's going to have to wait. My two days off this week are today (large backlog of resumes must get out) and Saturday. Saturday will be spent at L.L. Bean, just not working. I've learned that the locals start putting out chairs for the free concerts at 10:00 AM (show starts at 7:30 PM). So if I want a front row seat for Great Big Sea, my blanket and I will need to be there at 7:00 AM. I'll just bring food and a book.

Done packing. Done driving.

I drove to Maine yesterday. I ended sleeping on a friend's floor Sunday night, when I could not drive to Maine (as I didn't want to arrive at 4:00 AM) but could not stay in my previous apartment (due to having handed over the keys).

Interview was this morning. I think it went well. I'm one of two candidates. Wish me well.

So the big blackout did very little other than make me throw a few things out of my fridge. It was mostly a wonderful opportunity to play games by candlelight. Which is great fun. I love candlelight.

The drive back from Chris's place was kind of scary though. Power was back in some places and not others, and I only saw one other driver actually stop at a blacked-out light. Just one on the whole drive back. It was scary, as I had to make turns at some of those lights, and seeing people not slow down at all was worrying. Thankfully I turned at intersections empty of cars but me.

Work today was interesting. It was my last day, and I met with my replacement. I'd planned on actually showing him the systems I work with and the way files need to be transfered and stuff. But the entire CS department network was down. So I couldn't do a thing. The entire university was closed due to power shortages, and that meant they did not turn on the AC in our building. And since the people who designed our new building did not listen to the sys admins and give the machine room its own AC unit, we could not turn any machines on. The machine room was 80 degrees (in the Danger! Warning!) zone, and that was with all the machines turned off. So I just typed up all I could think of that he needed to know, and packed up my office- all the Legos and the Nerf guns. The rats were back for another visit- Sam's house had no AC and was hotter than our office. The girls are lovely, as always.

After work I got to hang out with Eugene. Which is damn fun. We walked around in a huge cemetery, talking for a over an hour. Very fun, though we both forgot to bring water. Then back to his place where I successfully chased down and ice cream truck and we played video games. I can play fighting games! My total lack of skill with a controller is much less of an impediment, you just hit buttons really fast, and laugh when your character does bizarre stuff. Lots of fun and a bit of silliness. I needed that. Thanks Eugene!

Visit my sister tomorrow, and get to have the first pick of any clothes she is getting rid of. She's decided she needs less stuff. Me, I've decided that more clothes is not a bad thing.