New gig at firstam.com Woo-Hoo
Firstam is my salvation from .NET!
- Woo-Hoo! I just got a new Gig! Who?: firstam.com in Austin, Texas Yee-Ha!
- The interview went great. It was a bunch of guys that looked more like Lumber-Jacks as opposed to Java-Geeks.
- I was myself and told-it-like-it-was to all of their questions.
- My story and I'm-stickin'-to-it: I'm a pure J2EE/Java guy. You won't see .NET, PhP, Perl (though I should), Ruby, Groovy, Joomla or any other non-Java language framework, toolkit or API on my resume.
- Java/J2EE (now JEE 5) is enough if you throw-in all of the Java-based FOSS projects out there in internet-world a dedicated Java-guy has no business trying to keep up with a slew of unrelated technologies and try to be productive and up-to-date using Java.
- Would somebody please prove me wrong?
1 year old Technorati Blog sign-up ping tested
- I just added the Technorati rpc ping listener to my blog.
- I navigated to Technorati just to discover that I had signed up to Technorati one year ago and I had not done anything with the Technorati blog.
- I added my photo and my bio and now this is a test for the rpc ping feature claimed by Technorati.
Dean Saga #18
Dean arrested Sat. night 4/26, jailed 4/27.
- YADSB: yet another Dean Saga blog entry.
- Dean left around noon Sat. 4/26 and returned the same day around the evening time lit up on the crap he takes (meth etc.) wanting to come inside.
- I had the doors locked before he could get back in anticipation of his return wacked-out-of-his-head.
- The next 6 hours before his Mom got home from work I followed all of Dean's moves from one side of the house to the other watching him: try all the doors and windows repeatedly over and over. And, I watched him try all the doors on all the vehicles repeatedly over-and-over.
- I talked to Dean through the back-door glass and answered the same questions repeatedly over-and-over: he (Dean) wants to come in, he wants a glass of water, he wants to call for a ride to leave the premises all of which are just a guise and ruse to gain access to the house. This includes statements from Dean about wanting to come in the house, goto his room and sleep. Ha-ha-ha! that is the funniest one of all.
- Dean repeatedly walked a huge S-path from the house to the road looking for people such as Tim Z. but the only thing he accomplished was scaring the neighbors to death and one gal who call me later that evening had called the police and was apparently following Dean all the way down to Butera somewhere and called me to report that Dean was about to get involved with the police (what-a-bitch).
- The previous bullet makes sense in the perspective of the police officer that came to the front door looking for and asking for: Dean Brown. And, the officer asked if Dean Brown lives here. I answered yes to the officers requests and the officer proceeded to probe if Dean was inside the house whereupon I answered that Dean was not inside but outside in all-likelihood on the property somewhere. My answer to the officer displease him immensely whereupon the officer left abruptly. The officer overall was rudely to the point.
- Sunday morning I got a call from a bail bondsman that Dean had been processed into the Montgomery County jail. The website jail roster showed that Dean had been confined @12:08 Sun. morning.
- Sun. evening 4/27 Dean showed up in the game room somewhat ragged-out looking but mostly unimpaired. Dean got read the usual riot-act from me and proceeded to feed himself and then he went to his room and went to sleep.
- Today: had been a different story. So far, Dean has really tested my on what would the consequences be if he tried to go back to the Dean status quo here at the house. The result has been to re-inform Dean that the request that he stuff a backpack and leave is just the first step before I request a police officer to come to the house and convince Dean that he should leave the premises post-haste.
Dean Saga #17
Dean quits his job and signs up for in patient re-hab
- Dean did not goto work today and essentially has quit his job at Esco Plastics.
- He called Amber and requested to get in-patient authorization at some facility in Willis, Texas.
- He then called the Willis in-patient re-hab and now has a screen scheduled for Monday, 21 Apr. @ 10:00 AM.
- The history leading to the events described in the bullets above are the usual: Dean took all of his paycheck out of the bank on Fri. 11 Apr and spent the entire sum on another weekend drug binge. Dean returned home at about 6:00 PM Sunday evening barely able to stand or talk.
- Dean worked yesterday and Monday. I took Dean to talk to Amber @ 4:30 PM yesterday in the Woodlands. Dean had to leave work early to get to the P.O.
- Dean quit his job basing his decision on the fact that Dean has to see his P.O. once a week every week.
Dean Saga #16
Dean does goto work on Saturday
- Dean has already violated the eviction terms laid down by Masden.
- Last night he drank a slug out of his Mom's bottle of wine. And, he lied about when she questioned him.
- Dean missed work today. I dropped him off and when I got back home his Mother was on the phone talking to Dean.
- I had to go back to Esco Plastics and pick him up. Dean claims he had diarrhea all night. I don't believe Dean was ill as he says he was.
- Right now Dean is on the phone trying to find a mental health facility to check himself into so he can check back out and go on a drug binge.
- Dean found a so-called mental health clinic name: Cadwalder Behavioral Clinic on Quinn in Tomball.
- I drove Dean to the Bank where he withdrew some money and then we drove to Cadwalder Clinic but it was mysteriously closed.
- As it turns out Dean has hit the road because the Cadwalder Clinic was just another Dean trick to get money. And, now he has hit the road in an effort to get hooked up with Chase.
- I called his Mother and reported that if Dean comes back to the house high and wacked-out-of-his-head that I am calling the cops and Dean will goto jail.
Dean's Day in Court
J. P. Masden hammers down
- Today Dean went to court for the eviction noticed he was served by the constable deputy earlier in the week.
- I was not ready for the court proceedings as I had planned and wearing shorts did not help.
- In summary: Judge Masden issued the following edicts:
- Dean needs to be drug and alcohol free until the end of the month.
- The consequences of the previous bullet are he (Judge Masden) will send the deputy to arrest and jail Dean. This will supersede the eviction notice.
Dean #15
The $100.00 lie to get drugs
- Dean called me yesterday between the 1400 and 1500 hour mark. He said that his P.O. had called and said that Dean needed to come in for a drug test and that he had a special 3 (or more) hour class.
- I got more suspicious the more I drove and the closer I got to the Adult Probation Annex in the Woodlands.
- Dean kept reiterating that I would not have to hang around. Supposedly, the class would be much too long.
- Like the fool that I am I had right after Dean called that day I fell into his trap and fell for the lie he used to get drug money. I went to Wells-Fargo and got the $100.00 Dean said he needed to pay on his fines.
- When we got to the Adult Probation Annex he said that he would have to pay the fine himself. Dean told me a cock-and-bull story about how Mom had tried to pay once and the Annex folks would not let her pay the money. Like the fool that I am I gave the $100.00 (5 20s) to Dean and promptly requested that I get a receipt upon his return from supposedly paying his fines. Dean returned with a joke for a receipt thinking that I am so stupid as too accept something without an accompanying $100.00 posted on the receipt document.
- I was angry and I was 100% convinced that Dean was up-to-something and on the verge of trying his best to hood-wink me yet to date.
- Amazingly, Dean accomplished exactly what he had set-out to do: obtain drugs and get high.
- I did not see Dean get away from the Annex parking lot because it had started raining pretty hard and Dean was able to slip away from me undetected.
- I stayed in the Suburban for a while and read quite a few pages of the two books that I had brought with me.
- Finally, I grew restless and decided to just walk around for a while. I had gotten back into the Suburban at about 2115 to 2130 hours when a compact sedan zipped up very quickly and tried to let Dean exit the passenger door as if it would have gone unnoticed. Well, it did not go unnoticed and I finally grew impatient and completely put-out with Dean's lies and antics to cover up what the real purpose of the evening: to steal money from me and his Mom on the pretense to pay probation fines and only to spend the money on drugs.
- Needless to say the rest of the evening went promptly downhill with me angry behind the whell all the way back home.
- I drove into the driveway back home only to greet Dean's Mom in the driveway and she got an earful of the evening's one-act-play put on by Dean.
- The rest of the night I got only 1 hour sleep while holding vigil over Dean's room and commanding Dean back into his room everytime he tried to go somewhere like the kitchen. BTW: I had to confiscate Dean's cigarettes from him because I caught him smoking in his room. Dean repeatedly wanted to go into the kitchen to get something to eat. Since, I naturally distrust and disapprove of anything Dean wants to do because I am convinced he is in reality trying to execute an alternate agenda that has nothing to do with the stream of lies emanating from his mouth.
- Today: I went to J.P. Masden in Magnolia and filed an Eviction form to get Dean served a conviction.
- Dean has a court date with J.P. #5 Masden on the 8th.
Latest interest: a Java Gig prospect
Aire Liquide
- I got a call from Liz Lawler today about a nearly 5 month old gig prospect: Aire Liquide.
- I suspect the guy they had quit or got fired after just a few months.
- But, I don't care just as long as I can get a few months in before I roll-off.
- It could be a worth-while gig as the interview went well and I think the gal that was in on the interview seemed to approve.
- Liz Lawler promised feedback today. It remains to be seen.
- The only disadvantage I have is: I do not speak French.
Recruiter waffles on the Java Job Requirements
Job Plus: nice+to+have becomes requirement
- Today I talked to a recruiter that sent me an email wanting a Sr. Java Developer with so-called heavy middle-tier development. I have this development.
- The so-called plus or nice-to-have floor-trading experience was suddenly changed to a requirement for employment.
- The recruiter was waffling and not interested in actually presenting me to the client.
- I will not put this recruiters email address on the DNS blacklist.