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After the "severing" on Wednesday, I closeted myself in my office to polish my resume and begin waking up all my possible contacts. Several went big for me. Alteryx, a low-code analytics platform I have contributed to heavily both in my previous role and outside of it, is standing firm with me. I received word from them they not only still want me for the conference next month, where I was to be a "Company" speaker, but they are covering my expenses while there. They also have asked for my CV and already have spoken to someone to at the least become a paid consultant for them for a Professional Services program they offer to their clients. Might even get a real offer out of it too. My network here in Tampa is heavily in the Tech space, with many meetups for young devs, data science, and other groups I am active in. I've already had 3 initial interviews today. Two of which seem like realistic positions I can see myself in. Two other interviews and a lunch meeting with a CTO on Monday too. I was pretty down on Wed/Thurs but to see the amount of support I am receiving and the kind of ridiculous response, I did not expect to have any interviews for weeks, let alone a practical half dozen in 48 hrs. The effort I put in doing meetups, speaking engagements, going to coding sessions, or mentoring the young and beginning coding groups over the years has paid serious dividends.

Twice a year the condo arranges for bulk disposal so people can throw out things not generally permitted in the regular trash pickup. It's a wonderful chance to see what has been lurking in my neighbors' homes and quietly judge them and their stuff. If I'm not posting much later, it's because I'm busy driving around the condos and observing.

@Longjohn

He is always getting into mischief, I’m not surprised.

If she was texting me, she would probably say "I'm not dead, please dig me up"

This is green chili sauce made from puréed chilies, but I’d wanted to make chunky sauce with onions and tomatoes and chopped chilies. I didn’t have any tomatoes in the pantry, though.

There was a thread for him t’other day. One of his first bands, Second Coming included a keyboard player named Reese Wayans who later joined Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. This is one of my favorite of his compositions. He practiced in a Macon cemetery and titled the tune after a headstone he saw there while he was playing.

She would say that she’s a cat and I should stop calling her a dog

Uh, just how reckless is your barber??? Sounds like we’re talking full-on Van Gogh here. Edit: I see @JerrySTL beat me there…

I think that you need a new barber.

Why didn’t you get them all cut at once?

@Kzoo Lawn and Legal Services has acquired the majority of their fleet of non running lawn care equipment on bulk disposal day.

But if you leave the top off the can and let it become paint/cement, it’s ok to dispose of with regleear trash

Not if you paint the bulk junk ahead of time!

Half? Friggin’ slackers. Here, they have never let me down, having taken every single thing I’ve ever put out. The pinnacle was a computer chair that the cat had destroyed the side of. It sat out back by my trash cans all winter, while I kept putting off taking it to the landfill. It was covered in dead leaves and everything. One day, on a whim, I set it out by the road. Two days and it was gone.

FIFY!

Slightly infected. Gross.