Infoburst.

Various quick updates:

• My old cell phone is dead. If you've been trying to call me and getting constant busy signals, that would be why. I have a new cell phone; if you feel like you ought to have the number, and you don't, send me mail.

• I'm not working at Office Max any more. I had an emergency come up while doing some web work for Blue Utopia, and I had to call into Office Max to let them know I wasn't going to be able to make it in that evening. Long story short -- my supervisor was okay with this, but the store manager wasn't, and told her to cut my hours as punishment.

  I swore this would be a one-time thing -- that I would only go work for Blue Utopia on my days off, so that this situation couldn't arise again. But my word wasn't good enough, so I left. I'm greatly annoyed that I was being penalized for telling the truth -- if I'd lied and called in sick, everything would have been fine. I also don't really respond well to jobs that act like authority figures -- a job should be an environment of mutual trust and respect.

  Anyway, enough of that. They treated me like crap and I'm gone. I do miss working with saheeb138 and endorphan, though.

• I have an interview on Thursday with PLY Interactive (formerly SHIFTdigital). I had a phone interview with them a week or two ago, and I wasn't sure how well I did, but apparently well enough. I really, really want this job -- it would mean working for a design house again, doing web application development for various clients, fun fun fun. Their client list makes me swoon and fan myself. Cross your fingers for me.

• And since they want to see code samples, I'm doing a major overhaul on one of my big personal projects, the Seattle weblog portal. The eventual goal, here, is to allow anyone to make a weblog portal for their own city. The new codebase will go live over at http://seattle.blogmob.org/ when I'm done with it, which should be Quite Soon.

• I've been wanting to eat healthier lately. I mean, I've actually been craving stuff with, like, sprouts 'n' tempeh 'n' shit. No, rly. Srsly. And I've started feeling like crap when I eat the kind of things I normally eat. I think this is because I'm on new medication for my triglycerides. If so, well, awesome. Are there pills that will make me want to do dishes and clean my apartment?

• I finally got to see Sapphire and Steel. I found this at Scarecrow last night -- I didn't even know it was out on DVD. I've been wanting to see this series since I was about thirteen -- a British science-fiction series starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as mysterious telepathic operatives? With weird, claustrophobic, surreal, Lovecraftian plots about threats from outside of Time? Yes, please! I've only had a chance to watch the first three episodes so far, but I like it just as much as I always thought I would.

• My old friend mcglk is on LiveJournal now. I haven't see Ken regularly in years, not since the days I was a young impressionable kollej stoodint and he was the cool, witty, older geek I idolized. I knew him through a BBS at the UW, and I've missed his presence online. Good to have that back.

• Dreadwood was pretty entertaining, even though I was in a lousy mood for most of it. I'm going to be back out at the Mercury tonight for the Mardi Gras pot luck, accompanied by windbourne and a big pot of gumbo. You should come out.