Well, there's always the lemonade...

You know that saying about lemons and lemonade?  Well, I have been handed a shit load of lemons, and I don't like lemonade.  So, I guess with this surplus I have now, I need to set up a lemonade stand.  Anyone buying?


To put it more literally, I have started helping friends with computer problems.  I have one in the house right now I'm working on, and have another friend who needs three laptops worked on in the future.  So there is promise of a brighter future.  I guess this is a roundabout way of soliciting further - if anyone reading this needs help on their computers, let me know.  Or if you have friends who need help... I can provide references!  I'm really good! Especially at saving data on hard drives that are going belly up.  And of course, if you know anyone hiring IT people right now... Hopefully, that goes unsaid.  


The job search has been meager at best.  Occasionally, I have a few promising leads, but they have all fizzled.  It makes me wonder if I need to lower my pay requirements by almost half of what I should be making, or if I need to just stay strong through the dry spell and, well, sell more lemonade.


As for Acme, I have totaled up the money he owes me, and it's more than a thousand bucks.  It never ceases to amaze me how crooked that guy is.  I never really believed that people would have evil or meanness in their hearts, but he has changed that opinion.  I know if someone asked him "Don't you care about this person?  Don't you have guilt for what she's gone through?  What you have personally done to contribute to her pain?" he would just blurt out "I don't care!!" in a mean voice with a sneer and shrug it off.  It truly doesn't bother him one bit that he has lied, and that those lies hurt someone.  He doesn't care that people rely on him as an employer, as their source of money.  While his own credit flounders and flops in the mud, he continues to destroy others'. Yesterday, I had to drive near that office building, and I realized... I had broken into a cold sweat.  Just being near that place affected me physically - elevated heart rate, sweaty palms, nausea.  I went through that 10 times worse every morning I went into work.  Why did I do that to myself?! For such a beast of a man?  Nobody will ever have that control over me again.


As for Jen, I hear she is doing well.  She is looking for sales work, preferably in the medical field.  If any of you out there could help her get out of that place, please contact me, and I will put you in touch with her.  I also hear the new guy who replaced me is pretty cool.  I think I'll call him Greg.  I don't know his name.  I even heard that he found the blog pretty quickly and figured out immediately who it was about.  So, Greg, if you are reading this, welcome!  You are working for a gem of a guy.


Off to Craig's List, Monster, Dice, and WorkSource for now... I hope to blog more regularly again so my many fans (ha!) don't think I've disappeared into the sunset somewhere, happily ever after.


EyeTeeGirl