Behold the Solar Death Ray! Using the power of 112 suns to burn, melt and destroy things.
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Be sure to check out the gallery and the sub-divison, the Gravity Death Log.
The interview went really well, at least from my perspective. I met with the firm’s other partner (the one’s whose name is not the company’s) and had a nice chat. We spoke for about half an hour about the position of office manager and what that entails in this company. It’s pretty much the usual office stuff, plus the opportunity to help out with the company’s main job, that of appraising photographs (for insurance purposes, donation/deductions, etc.). The salary is not what you’d call incredible, but it is certainly better than what I’m making at the moment, so that’s good enough for me right now. After a 6-month probational period they have the option to make it into a salaried full-time position with some minor benefits and a small raise. The position has a salary cap, but it does have the opportunity to earn more on the side via the appraisals. We’ll see what happens.
On a side note, this was my first interview since becoming a Jew (meaning showing up wearing a kippa and with my full beard, though I left my tzitzit tucked in as I normally do). For what it’s worth, as I imagined, it didn’t seem to make any difference.
Just got a call from Penelope Dixon & Associates, one of the places I sent my resume about two weeks ago (see Feb. 7, 2006: Job Hunting), to schedule an interview for this coming Wednesday for their Office Manager position.
I must admit that I am a little freaked out about going on an interview for the first time in 4 years. The position entails the usual office stuff, plus helping out with other duties around the office, as the guy on the phone explained. It would be for a test period of 6 months, 40 hours a week for a per-week fee, with an option at the end of the test period to become a salaried employee.
The way I see it I don’t lose anything by going to the interview. The only problems I could forsee are my specific time requirements as an observant Jew and the trip to Holland/Belgium we have coming up in June-July. All I can do is be honest and upfront and let G-d take care of the rest.
Funny thing is that this weekend I finished talking to this man (Yehuda) from our synagogue who runs his own web development/marketing company called Sites That Sell Network. Yehuda runs a small-but-profitable suit that right now is stuck because he can’t handle more work. I am also in a test period with him, doing one site ahead so he can get a good handle on my abilities and I can get a good handle on the businesses he does development for.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out now. I like the flexibility that doing at-home web development brings, but I also like the certainty of a regular paycheck. Perhaps I can do both? Not sure; Highmoon would suffer and I’d probably end up with little time to do other things.
I’m not gonna worry about that now. My main concern right now is finding a place where I can have one of my nice dress shirts dry-cleaned in one day.
I’ve joined MySpace.com, mainly because I have various friends there. I won’t be using it to blog (I like Blogger too much), but I’ll use for stuff from time to time.
Edit: What I am going to do is mirror my blog over at MySpace
From Figures.com and the New York Toy Fair, check out the full spread of D&D Miniatures size categories, as well as a sneak-peek at the Colossal ($75) Red Dragon.
It is not until you are faced with a difficult submission that you truly and really treasure those writers that give you writeups that you can just give one look and approve.
I’ve been editing the submissions for Targum magazine and while I was able to do two in one day, I’ve been stuck for three days now in one adventure (and part 1, no less). The whole thing is not bad, but the whole thing is half in outline style, half in adventure style, and full of repetitive (or redundant) information or grammar errors like sentence fragments, typoes, etc. If it wasn’t because I really need it for the magazine, I probably would have returned it. As it is, I’m almost done shaping it into something coherent though I am already dreading doing part 2 for next issue.
Back to it, then.
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