Clevercanaries

It’s been kind of a dead week. I’ve seen no arborist jobs advertised at all in the last couple weeks. Being the week between Christmas and New Years doesn’t help either. There have been a few website, computer support and small writing jobs in Craigslist I’ve responded to, but either they don’t get back to me or they reply once then I don’t hear from them again. It’s kind of frustrating.

It’s also been raining up north and that has the river out of shape, so no escape there. I might go up anyway just to chill. Right now I’m open to anything. I would like to fish one more day this year.

While I’m applying for other jobs I decided to place some ads of my own. Placed it this morning and haven’t got a hit yet. I need to find other places to advertise my services. I did notice a lot of tree service ads today, but none from econotree. Perhaps if they stuck to my schedule they would have more work.

On the bright side econotree hasn’t placed an ad to fill my position.

I just filled out my first unemployment form this afternoon. That’s always been good luck for me. The longest I’ve been on unemployment is 2 weeks. I usually get one check, then a job.

I did see a post on craigslist for someone to upgrade a Wordpress (<< Wordpress spell check flags Wordpress, wtf?) blog from 2.6 to 2.7. I replied, but of course heard nothing back. I have done a lot of upgrades to this server over the years, including one that went horribly wrong, so I decided to at least do the 2.6 - 2.7 upgrade on this blog. It went well. Maybe I should advertise my services.

I also set up openID for myself. I’ve never had an occasion to use it until now, but it’s something else I know how to do.

One thing I’ve been trying to do is keep busy. When I quit smoking in June I bought myself a bike. I’ve been trying to ride it everyday, even if it’s just to get coffee down the street. On Sundays I take a ride to the Marina, through the Presidio to the GG bridge, then home. map
I find taking a nice long ride clears my mind and allows me to feel better about my situation.

First thing in the morning I look at online job sites like craigslist, bajobs.com and the caljobs.ca.gov site. The consumerist seems to think craigslist jobs are a scam, but I found my last job there.