1-My seemingly dead laptop has risen like a phoenix from the dead. I actually carried it across the street to a PC repair place to get it checked out but the guys were out on a service call. When I got home, I took apart the case to look at what I expected to be a bunch of blown capacitors on the motherboard. To my surprise, most things seemed in order and I doubled and triple checked all the connections before closing the case back up. Imagine my surprise when I hit the power button and the lappy roared (figuratively) to life! For the past month, hitting the power button did nothing more than cause it to flash without booting up. It's been on for a few hours and all the diagnostics seem to indicate everything is running again. Go figure!
2-Of all the places to consider a job, I am possibly looking at a position in New York City! (NEW YORK CIT-A, like in the salsa commercial!) Obviously, this is not a permanent locale--the idea is to work there for a few months then move back to Colorado and work remotely. It's a great position working with the National Parks and I'd be nutty to not at least think about it. I've had a few interviews and I think I have some leverage thanks to my experience, so we'll see. I have some other opportunities looming that I need to pursue, including a possible position with the revamped mountainzone.com.
So is it the blue moon effect at work? If that wasn't enough, I got a free bagel today from Moe's Bagels (where the elite meet to ... eat bagels?) by answering a "question" -- name three attractive women in music, one each from the 60's, 70's, and the 80's and if the power hungry clerk bought your trio, you got a free bagel. The poor dope in front of me said Janis Joplin, which instantly eliminated him. And I think he followed it up with Marie Osmond which probably made the price of his bagel actually increase (she wasn't ugly, but to consider her stuff "music"? Come on!). Put on the spot, my unemployed nights up at 2 AM watching commercials for Time-Life music collections came in handy! I said Michelle Phillips for the 60's, Nicolette Larson from the 70's (who, I technically have no idea what she looks like other than long hair, which works for me) and the post Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle for the 80's. I said these with such confidence, I earned myself a free salt bagel with strawberry cream cheese. Awesome.
I suppose actually getting a bagel in itself is a blue moon occurrence for me as I'm not a huge bagel afficianado. The moon is its normal silvery white tonight, so I guess it's all back to normal, which means my laptop will be dead in the morning.
