but my sportcoat/suit jacket and pants pockets generally contain:

Cell phone
Car/house keys
Sunglasses (magnetic mount to my glasses)
Pocket handkercheif
Very small wallet containing credit card, debit card, health insurance card, and driver's license
A stack of paper money folded over itself a couple times
Small, thin moleskine notebook
Cross roller-ball pen
Folding knife
Harmonica
RFID badge on retractable belt clip thingie (retracts up under my jacket)

Laptop bag contains:
Laptop
Legal pad
Power cord
50 ft type III paracord (well, about 47 feet now)
10-in-1 screwdriver
8gb thumbdrive
ziploc bag of mixed nuts
GoF _Design Patterns_
lighter

If you saw ME in a police car, what would you think I'd been arrested for?

Answer me, then if you want, post to your own journal and see how many crimes you get accused of.

Schadenfreude.

1. Buy 3 lbs of ground chuck and a couple of green peppers, with plans to make chili.
2. Get home, and find a 3 lb rump roast in your fridge.
3. Also find a pound of mexican chorizo.
4. Think "oh well, at least I'll have plenty of leftovers", and start cooking.
5. Wonder to yourself if it's a good idea for a single guy with no roommates to have a 12 quart pot and a 14" saute pan.
6. Realize that two gallons of chili goes a little beyond "plenty of leftovers".

Instructions:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

And when they came to Rome, they saluted the emperor, and asked their boon, which was given to them according as they named it. "We will be thy guides, lord," said they, "over sea and over land, to the place where is the woman whom best thou lovest, for we know her name, and her kindred, and her race."

And immediately the emperor set forth with his army. And these men were his guides. Towards the Island of Britain they went over the sea and the deep. And he conquered the Island from Beli the son of Manogan, and his sons, and drove them to the sea, and went forward even unto Arvon. And the emperor knew the land when he saw it.

So I'm done with the big project for the Professional Development Program at work, and I'm going on to work in Professional Services starting on Monday.

I'm amazed; these past few weeks I felt like our project team was on the verge of becoming a real-life version of Rodin's "Caryatid who has Fallen Under her Stone", crushed by the overwhelming load of trying to get 23 people to work together on a development project, and actually get something worthwhile done in five weeks without killing each other. Fortunately, at the last minute (literally---a handful of us were holed up in a conference room 40 minutes before the final presentation, hacking away), and with great effort, we were able to heave the stone back in place, supporting the architrave with nary a stack trace, even during the more detailed "technical" presentation.

Another post.

Figure I might as well post an update on my life here. I'm 24 now, done with school, living in Dearborn, and working in downtown Detroit at Compuware. That's about it. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

QOTD: Ecce Deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi. --Dante Alleghri

Gas, groceries, rent, internet and cell phone bills, credit card...

So... I got an offer from Compuware, and I'm seriously thinking of accepting it. At this point, I don't have other offers, and don't really have time before graduation to deal with taking off classes to drive/fly somewhere for an interview, so the fact that I have an offer in hand is quite a positive. It doesn't really seem like the ideal job for me, but then again, who comes out of college straight into an ideal job? I'll gain a lot of experience, should learn a lot from their training program, and it will look good on my resume. If I don't like it, I can always start up the job search again when I have some spare time and don't have graduation looming, exams to study for, projects to work on, and classes to not fail, not to mention some money in my savings account.

There is one catch, however: they want me to take a drug screening. Now, I have no doubt in my mind that I would pass such a test; that isn't my concern. The problem is that they want me to take a piss test within 24 hours of receiving my offer (which I got today at about 4:30 pm), and they want me to use a company called "LabCorp". I went to LabCorp's web site to find that their nearest testing location is in St. Paul, MN. Yes, I have just under 23 hours to take a piss test 262 miles away. I left a message on my recruiter's voicemail with my concerns, but he hasn't called back. Hopefully I can get this sorted out.

UPDATE: I finally got in touch with them, and I can take the test at the clinic in Hancock. Just have to call and schedule an appointment.

Uh... yes. Why is this a question?