Volpone
Zombie Hunter
...and that he hates me.
there is a long version, but the shorter version is, when I was contracted to a job elsewhere, there were plenty of great jobs available in Portland.
Then, just as the contract is wrapping up, the US economy starts going south.
No big deal, I thought. This'll force me to try out my business idea I started a year and a half ago. I'll go back to school on the GI Bill while wrapping up my marketing and business plans, network, and be ready to start raising capital just about the time I get my certification.
hpup:
Except that the stock market also shit the bed, torpedoing my seed money. And somehow the classes I need aren't offered anywhere in the Portland area. On top of that not only did Outlook manage to eat all the e-mails from an important contact I'd made, when I finally managed to track him down, I found out he'd been in a motorcycle wreck up in Seattle in September and was recovering with his folks in Arkansas.
That brings me up to a couple weeks ago. As soon as the stuff I had shipped to myself got in, I was going to fly home for Christmas. But Portland got hit with the worst winter storm since the early 1960s, so not only was I prevented from getting anything done in Portland, getting to the airport was near impossible. Not that it mattered because all the flights were delayed (yesterday there were six hour waits just to get to a ticket counter).
On top of everything else, I was living someplace where it wasn't practical to own guns, so even though I was rolling in cash, and had a couple guns I wanted to get, I just couldn't make it happen. Of course now that I'm in a position to actually buy guns, Obama's election has caused prices to double.
So pretty much every plan I've come up with in at least the past six months has been stuffed up my ass and then broken off. If that doesn't prove there is a Higher Power, I don't know what does. :evil:
there is a long version, but the shorter version is, when I was contracted to a job elsewhere, there were plenty of great jobs available in Portland.
Then, just as the contract is wrapping up, the US economy starts going south.
No big deal, I thought. This'll force me to try out my business idea I started a year and a half ago. I'll go back to school on the GI Bill while wrapping up my marketing and business plans, network, and be ready to start raising capital just about the time I get my certification.
hpup: Except that the stock market also shit the bed, torpedoing my seed money. And somehow the classes I need aren't offered anywhere in the Portland area. On top of that not only did Outlook manage to eat all the e-mails from an important contact I'd made, when I finally managed to track him down, I found out he'd been in a motorcycle wreck up in Seattle in September and was recovering with his folks in Arkansas.
That brings me up to a couple weeks ago. As soon as the stuff I had shipped to myself got in, I was going to fly home for Christmas. But Portland got hit with the worst winter storm since the early 1960s, so not only was I prevented from getting anything done in Portland, getting to the airport was near impossible. Not that it mattered because all the flights were delayed (yesterday there were six hour waits just to get to a ticket counter).
On top of everything else, I was living someplace where it wasn't practical to own guns, so even though I was rolling in cash, and had a couple guns I wanted to get, I just couldn't make it happen. Of course now that I'm in a position to actually buy guns, Obama's election has caused prices to double.
So pretty much every plan I've come up with in at least the past six months has been stuffed up my ass and then broken off. If that doesn't prove there is a Higher Power, I don't know what does. :evil:
