Nilknarf News

Just when I think I get things all figgered out, I get blindsided.

That'll teach me to think that I know something, heh.

I got up early today to get the phone call from the recruiter, and she called at 06:03. We talked for about ten minutes, with the same results of all of the other phone interviews that I've had with the recruiters... they want me, and they want me to call them when I have a firm date in mind, they get new jobs every day.

So, on to work.

Pretty light schedule, just about right for three people, but there are only two of us there again. We would be three at 12:30, though, and that was good.

There was a software clinical applications specialist there from VOXAR, the software that we use for post-processing images into 3D and multiplanar reformation images. I finally got to sit down with her after noon, and she showed me the new version of their software. I'd loaded it on the computer a coupla days ago, and I'd been playing with it every chance that I had, but that wasn't very much.

Anyway, she told me that they needed an applications person in this part of the country and urged me to apply.

So I came home and wrote a computer-oriented version of my resume and sent it off to her boss.

And then I started getting kinda excited, thinking about it. It would be good money, and it would involve medical imaging and computers and training people, four of my favorite things.

And most of the traveling would be by car. I like that, too. Of course, it would be impossible to avoid flying completely, their home office is in Scotland, and the United States office is in Boston, and I would imagine that I would be expected to go to those places occasionally.

And a job like that would also serve as a bridge to the other, the traveling tech job, in case I really didn't like it.

Anyway, it's always better to have even more options, even if it does make it harder deciding what to do, what to do!

But there is no doubt about what to do this weekend, heh. It'll be work work work, most likely. I didn't really look at the call list for the docs, but the guy for tomorrow is one of my favorites. I was talking to him today, and he has one of the new tele-rad systems, so I won't even have to digitize the films to send to him, I'll just push a button and away they'll go.

And I know that I really shouldn't get my hopes up about a job with VOXAR, but I am, I am. I am setting myself up for a fall, and I hate it when I do that. On the other hand... Karen pointed out that we really deserve a break, and this might just be *it*.

And even if it isn't *it*, it will be fun, yes it will.

And speaking of fun... how's about them Iraqis wanting us to go home, so that they can establish an Iran-like theocracy? I don't *think* so, folks... there's American blood in that sand now. I still believe that we are there for the wrong reasons, but we are *there* now, and we need to *stay* there for the right reasons. Interestingly, some major right-wing religious leaders are on my side on this one... no theocracy in Iraq! They want a church-state type separation over there... but not over here.

"Someone who can convince you to believe in absurdities can convince you to commit atrocities."... someone somewhere on the web.

O'yeah, it's really spring now... our first tornado watch of the year!