You know what I realized the other day?

I missed the first anniversary of my journal.

The current incarnation of 'What I Saw Today...' began on June 30, 2000, and it passed by here without so much as a mention. I know I was still sort of on hiatus and all, but how depressing!

Anyway, if you haven't dug back through the archives, you can go back to the original entry here.

And now I can begin doing those silly little 'One Year Ago' links too. Heh.

I wish I had more to report on the job progress. One company interviewed me, then hired someone else. Another interviewed me and I'm in the waiting stage. I spoke to a marketing consulting group who were actually looking for a print designer, but who may have work for me in the future.

I am going out of my gourd! I want to work, people! I'm getting awfully sick of sitting at home all day churning out resumes and looking at job ads. I'm sick of cold calls and sick of rejection and sick of not having somewhere to go every morning.

Con-Version is coming up quickly. I had really hoped to be working before then. Every year when the convention rolls around, we book a room and have a three-day vacation from the world. We put on our costumes, spend lots of money and have a hoot.

But this year isn't going that way. We ain't got the money. Luckily, we bought our tickets last year so we don't have to worry about that. But we don't really have the money for toys and goodies and books and art and all the other wonderful things we normally buy.

Well, as least I'll get to meet Dirk Benedict. That'll be cool.

So my sister calls me Friday afternoon. She's halfway to Banff on her way to the coast to show off the new baby to relatives. Seems she had tried to call my Grandfather here in Calgary to say goodbye, and had been unable to get through. There had been a busy signal for hours. She was almost out of range of her phone so asked me to keep trying for her.

Well, I tried a couple times and couldn't get through. Then I got through, but got no answer. I figured everything would be fine, and put it out of my head.

Yesterday Mom calls me from Revelstoke. Seems she's been trying too and had only got a busy signal. She's a little worried too, so I start calling again. I get a busy signal for a while, then I get his answering machine that night.

Today, Granddad calls me and we chat for a little while. It seems that he accidentally left his phone off the hook Friday for a few hours, and set off quite the panic. A friend of his, worried that something had happened, sent the police over to see if he was okay.

You know, my Granddad is old, yes, but people can't seem to let him go more than a couple hours without checking up on his. He told me that people phone him all day long, and drop by to check in on him at any hour. And if he isn't home or doesn't hear the doorbell, they start to panic.

Well, I'd say take it as a sign of how much people really care for him. After Grandma passed away and after his spinal surgery, everyone is just taking a little extra care to make sure he's all right.

Can't fault them for that.

A Year and two days ago: Great Big Sea rocks.

Over in the forum:

A resurgence of the 'Milk Bad' talk.
Things people can't live without.

An attempt to communicate

Aren't you turning 30 sometime soon?

Take me home, big fella