Happy New Year!

My plans for the festivities this evening are as follows: [NyQuil], [sleep] (in that order).

[Pneumonia] sucks.

Oh, what an exciting life I lead.

Wow, I actually put a link to something here. Well, I haven’t yet. Right now though, I have linked to the lego movie of [Camelot!]

So, it turns out, through cosmic humour, that while I was typing that missive about missing out on that job chance…

There was a voicemail sitting in my box, to contact Human Resources. Once I contacted HR, they had the esteemed love and want to tell me that I did indeed get the job.

My first response to her telling me that, was to argue.

“See, it’s funny you mention that, because I didn’t get the job.”, I said.

“No, we never really made any final decisions.”, she replied.

Well, good-god-damn. I’m differently employed now.

Turns out, they didn’t want me, because I had screwed up an order, and a cell site wasn’t ready for launch. It got blown up, and my name was associated with missing that.

“Oh, Shawn… He’s that Cell-Site-Misser…”

So, they flew some people in to interview, and it turns out, they were afraid of snow. They revisited the idea of me, and what the hell, they’re going for it.

Just a regular ‘49er.

Nothing came of it…yet. I was applying for a switch job. The current job offers me mental expansion, but nothing like working with the big love of a phone switch.

Turns out, since I’ve never done anything like that, I wouldn’t be the safest bet.

Well, yea.

It’s nice to know that people were shocked when I didn’t get it though. Makes me feel like people around here have some confidence in me.

I once asked a girl I went to high school with to marry me.

I didn’t really have that much of an attaction to her. Her name was Shawn Nicole Something-or-other. (I remember her last name, but I don’t want any of you froot loops going and tracking her down or anything.)

See, the idea was, if we got hitched, we could open a joint bank account. The checks would read…

Shawn N. McBride
Shawn N. McBride

It would have been brilliant. In fact, we could have shared credit cards and whatnot.

THE FISCAL POWER WOULD HAVE BEEN UNRIVALED.

She turned me down. She said she wasn’t quite ready to marry for a banking joke.

In retrospect, that was a safer bet…