So, I’m going to have to call up Phone Banks and quit.

Because I got a better job.

That’s right. Salary plus commission for Eubulus Computers. Sales. Selling what, you ask? Macintosh computers? Sure! But not primarily. I’ll be focusing on selling IT services to companies that are too small to need a full-time IT position. Not convincing people that they don’t need their current IT people, thank the gods. This… this is going to rock.

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a recap! Damn right.

I really, really enjoyed playing in the local Camarilla game on Friday night. There were a lot of power struggles, and I almost used a plot (one that qualifies as a sledgehammer to the head in my opinion) to destroy a political enemy. Oh, how Ishmael has changed.

Saturday’s game wasn’t as good, in my oh-so-humble opinion. Wait! Don’t I run that particular game? Damn right, I do! I was impressed by the sheer number of incoming people that wanted to play in my game (in fact, they out-numbered the regulars, even if we added in the missing ones), but I was spun by argued rulings. I really like spinning this story, but I’m going to have to say something about rulings before next game.

This is one of the many reasons I hope I get the sales job. I’d have weekends off. The telemarketing job is going to be primarily on the weekends, and I have a feeling a lot of Saturday nights are going to be on my work schedule when I get it tonight. I want to keep telling this story.

Sunday’s going to get its own recap post, as it deserves one to itself.

In about forty-five minutes, I will be leaving to the “Phoner Appreciation Night” for my class of people at Phone Banks, the telemarketing company that hired me. Not for actual telemarketing, mind you. I’m taking inbound calls. Pledges for PBS stations across the country. We get pizza and our schedules tonight, so there’s really nothing to be this nervous about.

Well, other than the end of an almost four-month era of my life in which I was either unemployed or employed with no work. It still makes me uncomfortable when I get this excited about being able to pay bills again. I guess it’s another question of getting hired and then not getting any work. That is probably a big fear that’s contributing to this nervousness.

On a good note, I’d forgotten how schweet my satellite speakers and subwoofer were compared to the built-in iMac speakers. Harmon-Kardon [sp?] makes really good speakers, there’s just no substitute for the subwoofer. Taaaasty Altec Lansing.

Have you ever been so bored with an anime that you’ve clipped your toenails? I have. Yeah, DevilLady blows. It’s a poor remake of DevilMan, emphasizing some sort of evolution conspiracy (never seen that in an anime before… bah) instead of a supernatural explosion of demonic entities. It’s stereotypical right down to the overbearing pseudo-governmental entity that initiates and controls the main character’s “evolution”. The only factor that is even slightly interesting is the lesbian overtone. Unfortunately, even that is pulled off in a bad soft-porn fashion.

I guess the lesson of this story is that if you’re going to get free anime in a raffle, you’ll most likely only be able to laugh at it, and not get into the storyline. Oh, and , it’s not even porn. The only nudity that’s shown is after the “evolution” transformations, and those are as anatomically correct as a Ken doll.

The shower won’t warm up, so I’m gonna write a bit here, I think.

So, plans are pretty set for Sunday. Looks like and I will be showing up at the illustrious Pizza House sometime around 6 or 6:30.

I still haven’t watched the free anime demon porn that I got on Thursday. Gotta do that some time soon.

I am once again without profound things to say. They’re there, mulling in the back of my head, but apparently someone set my mental to verbal translation setting to ‘simmer’.

I’ve actually accomplished things today. Sold my computer monitor and my 56x cd-rom drive. Made a rent payment. Have a bit ‘o spending cash (gonna go quickly) for the weekend. I must remember to finish off things at home, and use as much as I can for gas and groceries, and not eating out. So far, that hasn’t worked. It will. I’ll make it work. Heh. I’ve moved the iMac into the bedroom.

Visiting with was good. He left a note for . The Cam game was pretty good. Theio’s was pretty good. Hung out with someone I haven’t seen in a really long time, and leant money so that he could eat. Now he knows better than not to listen to . Now I’m home and I’m gonna read a little bit and head off to dream land.