The point of this post, is to illustrate the fact that yesterday was one of my Friday’s this week.

With the new gig, I’ve got less of a set schedules, and while I’d love a Monday-through-Friday six-to-three schedule, I have not only a variable start time, but variable days off.

So at the time of this post, today is my Saturday.
Get it?

S-A T-U-R D-A-Y NIGHT.
(Thank you Bay City Rollers!)
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I’m still trying to figure out what to make of this.

On Wednesday, at the Regional-Third-Party-Call-Center, which is contracted to the Not-So-Small-Pharmaceutical-Dispensation-Company, we are all scheduled three weeks in advance.

However, my colleagues informed me that everyone’s schedule for next week was deleted. Since I’m not schedule-obsessed, I took a look, and Shazam, it was gone.

I WAS scheduled to work Monday through Saturday with Wednesday off.

I looked at the schedules today, and they changed.
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Another Video Game that the old house use to play on the Ghettotastic PlayStation One was Tekken 3.

It was a side view fighting game, with a variety of characters, where you mash buttons to make them move in their unique fighting styles.

This was another game where The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr. and The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com would do battle.
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The Philadelphia Eagles have a bye this week.

It seems like such a waste. I mean, after only three weeks on the job and you get a vacation day?

I’m in the wrong line of work.
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By now it is old news that Chicago failed to win the nod for being the site of the 2016 Olympiad.

There is a lot to say about this, but for the record, I was rooting for Tokyo, but I knew they would never get it, seeing that Beijing just had the last one, and the IOC was probably looking for a Western Country.

When I heard that Chicago was on the ticket, I cringed. I knew that Chicago couldn’t handle the ramp up, or the aftermath of the Olympics. There are horror stories in cities like Atlanta and Los Angeles, and they do not have the crime rate/murder rate (Or the Corruption) of Chicago
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In one of the underrated stories in the news yesterday, I saw this article on Google News appears in everything from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Seeks to Restrict Gift Giving to Bloggers

The FTC is demanding Full Disclosure of Bloggers who provide reviews and information.

My question: How is a Government, who cannot regulate Spam, going to regulate blogging?
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I learned on Google today that today is the birthday of the Barcode.

So I went to Barcodes-Inc to participate in some Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Vanity:

The long running daily post streak is over. Which I realized this morning, as I was getting ready for work.

It started on August 1, 2009, spanned the months of August, September and early October, and ended on October 7th.

It wasn’t from a lack of content, more a lack of time.
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Hey, welcome back to Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com, the Delightful Alternative to the Error 404 – Not Found; which was displaying the 404 – Not Found Error through the weekend, until today.

I for one welcome you back.
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I’ve been asking myself a few questions lately. The Swine Flu is back in the news, and now that we’re in Flu season, the Swine Flu vaccine is being pushed by the CDC and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Before the recent downtime, I had finished Ian Fleming’s Moonraker, the third in the series. I suggested in my Previous Review I would give James Bond one more try.
While Moonraker was slightly better than its predecessors, it was not enough to continue my attention to the series.

But Moonraker has been crossed off the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Reading List

I figured it out.

I need to write a “Management Book”.
You know, the kind that everyone buys, but no one reads, and gathers dust on an office bookshelf as a talisman of “Hey, I’m a more aware employee, I have this book to prove it!” book.

You know the kind I’m talking about:
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Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com recently celebrated its 8000th comment/trackback/pingback.

The honor goes to the The-Roommate-Formerly-Known-as-Matthew-Maynard, with his comment here.
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During my University of Arizona days, I often hung out with friends in the Student Union between classes. It was a unique thing, as since there were so many of us, we would just camp at this one group of tables in one of the quieter restaurants. People would come and go, but there was always someone at the table from when the place opened to after dinner before the various evening activities. It was so regular that the restaurant staff made sure the collected tables were all set up for us when we arrived at the start of their day.

We would sit and chat, eat, study, tutor, unwind, or whatever, it was a great place to hang out because everyone knew your name, and if they didn’t they knew the next day. It was nice, because it was a safe place with trusted people. Most of us lived off campus and used that table as a place to congregate and keep our stuff, so we didn’t have to lug everything around. Because we trusted everyone it was a place for peace of mind. There were many tales retold that originated from “The Table at Cafe Sonoroa”.
I spent much of my University free time at that table, as did many of us, because it was such a friendly place. Other patrons even noticed, and eventually joined us, because they liked the familiar camaraderie.
Some of the people who read this website were part of that daily ritual, that is how close we were, including The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr., Growler, and The-Roommate-Formerly-Known-as-Matthew-Maynard along with his, then, future wife.
The Table, the Cafe, and even the Student Union no longer exist, but it is comforting to know that the friendships solidified there have lasted through today.

So while people were scribbling papers, or doing math homework, I was often working on my Astrophysics homework, or helping people with their college algebra. (Which was actually more helpful for me to keep my skills sharp than helping them pass their classes. But they passed with flying colors anyway.)

Often, I’d be working on a Astronomy exercise where I would take one equation and derive a different equation to solve a question/problem. One technique in these kinds of exercises was to find terms which converged to zero, so you could drop them out and concentrate on the rest of the integral or quantum statements.
I’d try this, and a term which I expected to converge to zero would actually “explode” to infinity. (The opposite of what I intended and I’d drop my pen/pencil to the page in frustration, as I tried to find the mistake in my math.)
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Cisco sent me this article from Granta, thinking I would like it.

He was right.

It even quotes the Talking Heads:

In this recent jaunt in employment, I’ve learned something about myself and the way I learn information.

There are three types of learning styles

• Visual
• Audio
• Tactile

Each is easy to figure out, each prefers to learn with either their eyes, ears or their hands.
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If you are reading this, than Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com successfully updated to WordPress 2.8.5.

I did a “Full Monty” (A remove and re-install) this time, since I had the issues with the server last week.
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G.B. called me earlier this week with a question from the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Niece, Rachael.

You see, my WONDERFUL niece is showing an interest in my favorite subject, Astronomy. And she and her mom saw a bright object in the sky, and they wondered if it was the planet Venus. (Which would have been fun, since Rachael just checked out a book about the planet.) So she called, and left a message asking “Is that Venus?”
(She also asked if it was a spaceship, but that was just funny and cute.)
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It took less than one month for The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com to find a rant about their new cubicle jungle.

It was lurking in the wings, all this time, and I had noticed it, but thought it was just one of those “new guy” observations which are, nine-times-out-of-ten, useless observations.

But this week two things happened, they didn’t sound related, and they were not, but put them together, and observe the timing, it showed a pattern that I feared was forming.
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In a few weeks, the State of Arizona is having an election of nothing but Propositions.

Well, I should not say that, there are some actual elections for offices like City Councilman, But it is mostly about the propositions.

I’m beginning to hate Propositions in elections.
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I think I invented a tasty adult beverage several years ago, in one of the precursors of the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-Compound.

One evening, The-Roommate-Formerly-Known-as-Matthew-Maynard was trying to find a reason to consume a bottle of Peppermint Schnapps that he had acquired, he handed the bottle to me and said, “Make something.”
(I like to attribute this moment as the start of my amateur bartending career.)

I was young, in my bartending skills, but I had the bare-bones basics of a liquor cabinet at the time. I thought about it, and shrugged, and took a risk, I grabbed a single bottle, and a glass, and poured the two ingredients in. I took a sip, and was impressed.

I almost didn’t give the glass to Matt, it was that tasty.
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Just an FYI to the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com community, the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-Compound is moving.

Over the next two weeks, the Compound is moving a mile East. To move more on the Grid.
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I did not notice, but after the Update of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com to WordPress 2.8.5, the issue of Post revisions increasing the Post Count returned as I lost the Configuration setting which turned it off.

I discovered it, and turned it back off, and now I have to recover the “lost” database entries. So the next few posts will be backnumbered until that is resolved.
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As some of you may not know, while I was unemployed, I was cutting back on the coffee; not for financial purposes, but rather out of convenience. (I didn’t have a “need”/want to drink it.)

As I started this new gig, I saw my Coffee intake increase again, as, once again, Coffee convenient to drink.

It got me to thinking about my coffee drinking history.
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One of the Television Shows that I almost missed (seeing that I do not watch Television, live) was House M.D.

I knew the show existed, but the limited knowledge I did not have the inclination to investigate further.
It was not until last year that one of the friends, (I think it was Nascar) who said, “What? YOU, *YOU* do not watch House?) that forced me to investigate further.

So, I was intrigued.
And then I was hooked by the first episode.
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Working in the Regional-Third-Party-Call-Center, I’ve rethought my previous post on Technical Name Calling.

If you recall, I cited four classes of jobs:

• Zombie
• Monkey
• Grunt
• Jockey

I’ve refined my definitions, and I think the job roles make more sense now:
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I saw this geek joke one year. And I never wanted to forget it.

Why do geeks confused Halloween and Christmas?
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