Not just one job but two!

OK...so they are two half jobs. But it's a start.

I went for my interview for Accountemps and scored in the mid 80's on all my tests. So....I was accepted as a temp!!! They said they would be contacting my references and if all went well with that, they would put me to work. My references are great so that's not a problem.

Yesterday I got a call from the printing company here in town. I went for a meeting with the production manager and they want me to start part time tomorrow. I applied last June and I got an interview on the spot because of my experience. Then his brother lost his job and he hired him instead. It's a very small company, only 4 full time employees. They have allot of mailings for the holidays, the first one due on Wednesday. It's only part time and only when they have a large work load. It's something to get me by till I can get something real. I can still work there weekends and nights when he is busy, even after I get a full time job. It wouldn't be the first time I worked two jobs. I told him about the Accountemps position and he said he understands that comes first.

Beaver dams

It just occurred to me that I did not post the beaver dam explosions. Here they are!!!

No beavers where harmed in the destruction of this dam. The beavers are all scurried out before the explosion. I tried to upload the video but the file is too big. Too bad...it's pretty cool looking.

The beavers make dams in the creeks and then the farm fields flood and the crops are ruined. Plus the farmers can't get the tractors into the fields. If you notice the handle of the shovel in the dam, It is just into the dam deep enough to get the charges into the dam. These beavers are serious about their dam building. The guy in the water (Tristan) is actually standing on part of the dam. The water was backed up pretty bad up stream.

This is what the Illinois boys do when they have a dynamite license. This and old silos that need to go to make room for new development.

I went with for this one pictured, today they went and blew up another one.

In a rut!

I have been thinking of giving up the blog for a while. I have only boring things to post. Other than the CA trip, I really haven't done much other than go to school and look for work. We haven't even done much on the bikes this year. I do miss our yearly bike trips.

Rich has been working on his 1968 Roadrunner. That's kind of exciting to watch. It was originally a stick and he wants to make it an automatic. I still haven't given up on trying to convince him to stay with the stick. He said he plans to drive it all the time in the summer. He doesn't want to go through all this work to drive it once a month to a car show and he wants to be able to drive it with out the hassle of shifting.

Can you believe he thought this was red when he painted it last? Talk about colorblind!

As for me...maybe things will start to make a turn for the better soon. I have had two interviews...one was for on-call work to fill in for the teenie-boppers that don't show up for work on Friday and Saturday nights on Macys' sales floor. I applied for clerical work or part time retail to try to get my foot in the door for clerical. I am not going to devote Thursday through Saturday to sitting around waiting for the phone to ring to replace someone who has poor work ethics and can't get their buts to work when they have agreed to. Sick is one thing, but we know that in the life of a teen, social activities come first. Plus, working a few hours one or two days a month, if that, wont pay my bills. The next interview was for a bookkeeping job...they hired someone with a bachelors degree. Probably a blessing in disguise...it's an hour drive in good weather. 45 minutes of that is on country roads so in the winter I can only imagine how long it could take. We get some pretty bad snow drifts out here in the farm land.

I have an interview with Accountemps on Tuesday. This is three interviews in 9 days, could this mean that the economy is starting to pick up, or am I disillusioned and heading for more disappointment?

On the bright side...I will graduate December 17Th with HIGH HONORS!!!! How cool is that?