Well, I thought I had things kinda figured out…and then Friday the 13th happened.

I posted that statement saying that things were settling down, that I wasn’t looking for another opportunity, etc., etc. Then the car died, we had some financial excitement, and two req’s I applied for suddenly become hot after some long, dreary coldness. The Hell…?

The good news is that the two reqs are both on the east side of the metro — one of them is about 4 miles away from me (closer and longer but less money) and the other is in Energy Park (further away and shorter but more money). I’m not entirely sure what the roles would be: it seems pretty common to not really find that out until you get an interview. Hopefully they’ll both heat up at about the same rate and I’ll be able to take the better offer. Quite frankly, though, my current gig has made me feel like it’s better to go with the Devil I don’t know. If I get an offer, I’m probably out — and I don’t think they’ll be surprised.

The other news is that we got a new (to us) car: an 06 Mitsu Galant with about 16k miles. Normally, I’d qualify this as “good news”, since we had been looking for a new car, but the death of our Chrysler really pushed our timeframe pretty hard. The Galant is an excellent car, and I’m really happy with One of tha Few’s job in picking it out. It’s got a lot of really strong crash test, fuel economy, and reliability ratings, but it has the decency to not hold value very well, so we were able to get a nominally used car for cheap. It’s also small enough for me to like it but big enough for her to like it, and it was even the color that we both really liked (”Titanium Perl”…er…”Pearl”).

I’ve also been arguing on LiveJournal communities quite a bit, for better or for worse.

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