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?

Practical:
Beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans.

Frivolous:
A bourbon, neat.

My own choosing:
A big sack of rice.

I usually use an automatic drip coffee maker. It's convenient, and I bought a model that brews good coffee. I also have a french press and a moka pot. For all three, I use a burr grinder, and locally roasted coffee from Twin Lakes Java. I also have on occasion roasted my own coffee, but I don't do that very often.

The Aftermath's water's too cold
My tea insufficiantly bold
The brew is insipid
It's temp'rature tepid
Though it's well over ten minutes old

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There was a Norwegian, short on youth
Whose wife had got into Vermouth
On a trip to St. Paul
She bid his hand crawl
So he drove all the way to Duluth.

I posted both of these to LimerickDB, but they haven't shown up yet. The second one I revised a bit here, because I just remembered that Ole and Lena are Norwegian, not Swedish.

Nope, I was busy swing dancing.

60% Tom Tancredo
58% John Edwards
58% Chris Dodd
56% Barack Obama
56% Mike Gravel
55% Bill Richardson
55% Hillary Clinton
49% Mitt Romney
48% Fred Thompson
46% Dennis Kucinich
43% Joe Biden
43% Mike Huckabee
42% John McCain
42% Rudy Giuliani
41% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Uh... who? Also, no wonder I can't choose who to vote for. Seems the only viable candidates at this point are Edwards, Obama, and Clinton for the dems, and Romney, Huckabee, McCain, and possibly Giuliani for the reps. I can't vote for a fundie like Romney or Huckabee, Edwards has a bit of a greasy trial-lawyer vibe to him, and Clinton seems like more of the same. Anyone is better than Bush, but I'm going to have to say it's Obama or McCain for me. I am liking Obama more and more lately, and I could live with McCain, which is more than I can say for the other two Republican front-runners.

I resolve not to make any resolutions this year. I usually end up breaking them, and don't want to be disappointed in myself.

...and it sat on a dusty shelf somewhere until someone bought it at a garage sale in 50 years?

This guy buys old cameras from junk stores and e-bay and the like. He buys the old cameras that still have someone's old exposed film in them—exposed forty, fifty, sixty years ago—and develops the film. What pictures he can salvage from these rolls of history he posts on the linked page.

I have looked through several sets of these images, but I will tell you a bit about my favourite series. He bought a box containing an old Argus (a camera company that started in my home town of Ann Arbor, coincidentally), and several rolls of undeveloped but exposed 35mm film. Upon developing said rolls of film, the saga of a soldier in World War II unfolded. It shows pictures of what look like training, time spent in England, Italy, and elsewhere in Europe, and a somewhat blurry yet affecting snapshot of a fellow soldier holding up a newspaper—"Peace at Last" reads the headline. The soldier returns home, taking a series of pictures of the Statue of Liberty looming closer and closer, and finally, pictures of family and friends, even his cat.