Psychotomy

first, of puppies:

wednesday i was home (conference over, not working (a week of 13hr days, screw it !!!)) and got up ~8am. by 8:30am k had barked and whined enough to annoy me. so i dropped him at camp for the day. i wasn’t in the mood for puppy walks every couple hours (to wit, he’s been on 4 today in ~10 hours)

wednesday i go to pick him up, and i get called into the managers office. like being called to the principles office, but i’m the parent not the child :o “we had a little incident today, k-line bit someone” wtf? k ??? k never bites anyone! i mean, if he were defending himself ok, but just walked up and bit someone’s calf? no effing way! but they weren’t reporting it (“oh, so he didn’t break skin?” “he did” uh, then you policy dictates the hospital/dr’s, THEIR policy dictates reporting to the county … ?) Of course, I still havent’ gotten a call from the county, so i’m confused. but i’m counting thu-sun as 4 days for if they call on monday about the 10-day quarantine. anyway, further details come out slowly. apparently someone wasn’t following the procedures/rules. probably someone new, didn’t think it was important. See, K has this issue. he completely spazzes when somoene leaves the room. and if you take a dog with you? look out, he’s pissed now, you’re trying to run off and play with someone else!!!!

it seems like what happened was he was doing his barking nippingthing, and accidentally caught someone. small skin puncture. oh, did i mention the silver-dollar sized scab on my ankle or the 3″ scar on my wrist from leashes? and you’re flipped out b/c he accidentally nipped someone??? cmon!!!

of jobs: found a posting (well kiir did) on craigs that’s in columbia and C/C++ IPC/multiprocessing linux app (well, sounds like a device driver to me frankly; embedded raid controllers) so i’ve spent the last two days working out a cover letter and updating my resume a bit. not that the updates are really necessarily relevant to this company (my security training) but figure it can’t hurt to add them.

except i can’t get neooffice (os-x openoffice native) to play nice. actually i may have had this problem when i did the resume the first time. all i know, it royally sucks how much effort this is. i spend less time and attention writing whole chunks of VE/EO than i’m spending on this freakin’ resume. !

I also did a salary check on monster (monster.salary.com) and for a SWE V (which is approx what i am/would be) i’d be making 90k. that’s the bottom 25%, btw. 105 is median. this is in dc area. where i live, yeah. i’m grossly underpaid :o which is one reason i’m starting to look. i may not move, but having a competing offer, my company might (MIGHT) be willing to cough up some more :o

Posted in: k-line, work by attriel /