[Chrass 20070502: I originally wrote this article over ten years ago on 19961101. I quit the job in early 1995.]
I used to be a cashier. I know what it’s like to have to deal with an entire geographic wedge of society. I know what people are like. I hate people. Anyone that has to deal [...]
I flew to Seattle on Sunday. Being bored, I shoulder surfed the laptop of the man sitting next to me. He appeared to be writing a speech about how he handled being abused as a child. The writing wasn’t especially good, but the content was interesting. He got to a point where it would be natural [...]
I’m in purgatory.
I’ve secured a job in Seattle and now I’m trying to move there. It turns out that the best way for me to get there with my three dogs is to drive it (my new company is paying me very well to do this). There was a huge scramble to procure a mover [...]
We all made it to Seattle last night. Our last push, yesterday, was from Billings, Montana which was over 1300km.
My temporary digs turned out to be a pretty upscale condo. It’s a one bedroom jobby, but it’s quite large. I’m on the fifth floor and have a balcony that overlooks the courtyard. I met another [...]
The Financial Post recently ran an article about how the company (Geosign) that owned the company (TrueLocal) I used to work for collapsed almost overnight. I’d estimate that Geosign was worth over $250 million dollars before the shit hit the fan.
Whoever wrote the article did their research and got their facts straight.
I had actually left [...]
As I was walking back to the office from lunch, I spotted a homeless man outside my building screaming like a wounded bobcat into a garbage can.
I suspect his opponent was inside.
The mild (-er) weather has returned to Seattle and the local wildlife is coming into full bloom: Red-Billed Hobos, Hallucinating Layabouts, Piss-Soaked Derelicts, Confrontational [...]
Just had some delicious pho for lunch. It would have been a perfect meal except that some mother and her kid were sitting at a table next to us. The kid was playing with a Game Boy set a full volume. Everyone in the restaurant could hear it.
I didn’t want to be a jerk in [...]
