No motherboard/CPU yet. I ordered the damned things two Thursdays ago, and between burn-in testing and the holiday and weekends, it's still not here. FedEx tracking says that it left the store Friday, and left a FedEx center in Indianapolis Saturday night. It's not arrived anywhere though, which ju…

So apparently the two boxes were some bureaucratic mistake (or a clever scheme to double bill for shipping...), as all of the order came in the shipped package. I have the tracking number for the rest of the order. Soon I'll have all of the parts necissary to complete my plan!

Eh, not a big plan, bu…

So last thursday I put in the order for my replacement dev machine parts from two online stores; both with FedEx 2day. One store decided to break their shipment into two boxes (concievably due to size/weight). Of the three boxes due to me a full week (plus holiday) after order, one of the split shi…

Heh, [see last post] I am apparently quite good at searching for trivia. The company sent along more assessments for me to muddle through. Whatever pays the bills.

Speaking of bills, I broke down and got the parts for my new machine. I figured the only thing that would be worse than not getting a jo…

I just got sent an online 'skills assessment' from a consultantcy. Now, I've not worked professionally as a developer, but I'm pretty sure that knowing MSVC# command line compiler flags is not a good indication of your ability to write clear, functional code. Granted, it (and worse questions) perha…

Last few days I've been couch-ridden with a nasty cold. No fun. Some consultantcy is saying that one of the places I interviewed with is looking to get an offer together, but it's stuck in bureaucracy. I'm not holding my breath.

Oh, and it's an embaressment that 2/3 of American senators... the peop…

I've decided to hold off on the computer replacement until hire. That ~$1500 might give me another month to get that job to save my house. That I figure is the important thing, and the wife's computer is fine for job hunting. That though means no semi-modern games, no MSVS, and nothing but J-pop...…

I'm going a little nutso without my own computer, after less than a week. No dev environment, no games, no music, no capability to fix any of those either... And of course I'm still jobless, so I've got about 6 waking hours when I'm not job hunting or forced off the computer by the wife to kill.

Th…

So I didn't get that highly-ideal job. Well, that's not exactly true. The job was offered to someone else. They liked me enough that once one or two other positions open up after some paperwork clears I'll be first on the list for those... which is great and all but it's not a paycheck.

Still no word on the job, and my dev/gaming machine is still dead. In the meantime, I was thinking of rambling a little incoherently about some of the things I found out while doing the first try of moe, and what I'm looking to do since I'm pretty certain that I want to redo a fair portion of the g…