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Before I get into this I should say: I appreciate your sympathy, and your empathy, and your kind thoughts. I take them as given, and read, and thanked. Please don't try to cheer me up further; I don't work that way.
So, I guess that company I interviewed over the phone with two weeks ago isn't going to hire me. I've been stepping up the number of applications I put in, mostly through LinkedIn, and that's given me an increase in the number of rejections I get. Everyone agrees I look like a good enough candidate to talk to on the phone for a half-hour and then to never acknowledge again.
Last week I saw that CovidActNow, the web site that tries to provide information about how bad the pandemic is, was looking for front-end engineers and for UX designers. So I put in an application and they asked to see a portfolio. This presents a problem: everything I did for the old company was for paying customers, or has been taken down, or (like with my last projects) never even got fully deployed. Well, I went through what I could, like, PDFs that I had taken when I was trying to prove some bug or other was handled. Or local versions of web pages that I used to develop and test out Javascript stuff locally, so I wouldn't have to be typing through an Internet connection. It's not the best possible state, since it's not, like, the full experience of these pages. But it's at least showing the kinds of things I can do and has some functionality. I spent a day and a half putting that together, and sent it to them, and heard nothing afterwards, not even an acknowledgement that they received my e-mail.
Yesterday I had another one, this time from a company that places people into tech jobs. The guy had two contract positions he thought I would be great for, and I guess I would be, if I knew anything about Angular or React. But I never found a problem that they would solve well, so I never dealt with them, and that's settled their dealing with me. The guy had a third position, though, a permanent one. It's got a surprisingly good match for the skills I had in my old workplace, so what the heck. We can give that a try, and fail.
Some more of the run-up to Easter here for you.
The three-foot-tall solid-chocolate bunny at the local candy shop. I'm sorry it's so hard to get a good photo; the place isn't open at night, when the reflections would be under control. It's $625, if you want it. We thought this was a big rise from last year but I checked my 2021 photos and it turned out it was $625 then, too.
Eggs, in the process of being dyed. We went crazy with the olive-oil-dyed eggs for more complicated, wavy, watery patterns.
A doen of the eggs that we took for ourselves. Note that we didn't just get speckled swirly patterns; I also made two extremel solid purple eggs and like them.
Trivia: Nearly all of Leonardo da Vinci's engineering notebooks were kept private until they were published in an 1880 edition, by which time most of the inventions sketched in them had been made by others. Source: The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, Henry Petroski.
Currently Reading: Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo, Walt Kelly.
