"Choices"

Today I have some choices to make. I found out the start day and time of the new job I have agreed to take is Monday at 9am. I also found out I have passed the technical interview of the salaried position and they want to send me to the first in-person "team" interview at 11:30am either Monday or Tuesday.

I am having difficulty figuring out how exactly I will be able to accomplish both starting the position and getting myself to the interview next week. Perhaps if I asked mentioned an important errand I had to run on Tuesday and therefore needed a little bit longer lunch. Or perhaps if I asked if the interview could some how be at 7:30 or 8 on Monday, although some how I doubt they would be willing to go for that. Well all I can do is ask, right? Oh and the interview is "expected to last an hour" so making it on a lunch break may or may not work. The real advantage actually is that by sheer coincidence the place where I would interview and the place where I am starting next week are within a few miles of each other. So it wouldn't be that bad of a drive getting from one place to another. If I am remembering correctly actually. I'm pretty sure I am though. Actually it's not too late in the day I could just drive down there and find the building where I believe I would be interviewing and then time how long it takes to get from one to the other roughly and that way I will know.

So I have no idea what I am going to do. I mean obviously I want to keep the job I'm signed up for in case i don't get the salaried position but I would want to go for the salaried thing if they wanted me, I assume. But if I tell the staffing service I'm entertaining the salary position will they drop me off that job and find someone commited to a position or will they let me keep working there? I'm so confused!

....several hours later....

Okay I've called a friend of mine from a former job to try and get some advise about the situation and see where I should go with it and I now think I have a much better grasp of where I should go with it. I'm now really, really glad I managed to keep him as a contact because he seems to be able to figure these sorts of things out with relative ease and clarity. And apparently I won't be driving any place to test driving times between locations today, I will have to do that tomorrow or over the weekend.

I think I feel like moving off that subject so I will mention something else, however minor it may be: namely that I managed to change this blog's template ever so slightly so that it defaults to an Arial font. Because you see I have been manaully changing it this whole time up until now (and by that I mean since January 1st or so) so finally I went into the template, looked it over, and since there was a style defined as "body" with a list of fonts I just put "Airal" as the first font choice. Then updated the blog which took a while since this entire blog is like six megabytes or something like that and abbree catabree everything is my font of choice. Some how I doubt anybody really cared about that but it was an accomplishment for me I here we are.

Other than that there was one thing I think goes back to night before last actually I was working on that DOM project and actually managed to make it "append" rows on to a table at the push of a button, taking the value of a input box or text box or whatever they're called with it.

So to re-cap all I have to do is put in an open/close table tag with an id="table" or whatever id I want and then I can simply append rows with to that table then I can create cells and append the cells to the rows. So there's jsut a table. Theoretical rows I create (TR tags) then theoretical columns are create (TD tags). Then the TDs are appended to the TR and the TR is appended to the table. The actual HTML, if you were to view source, still just has the one humble little unpopulated TABLE table tags and that's it. But as I click the input button more and more rows/cells are added to it. Yes, at least to me this is really quite special. It was actually made much more possible when I finally learned the append object of the DOM doesn't actually use parenthesis in VBScript whilst it does in JavaScript. That minor little detail really did mess me up for a while. Actually I found out from this specialty forums site called visualbasicscript.com which has been incredibly useful so far. I'm starting to realize my ambitious HTA probably isn't all that ambitious at all. Not when compared to what the real power-programming geeks of VBScript can can do.

There's still a few things I would like to "flesh out" and learn for this project.

Well originally I wanted to just get this blog entry out of the way so I could start filing my taxes but a few minor things like what to do with this situation caught my intention so I haven't finish the blog or started my taxes. I'm actually some-what looking forward to the taxes because I seem to always get everything I paid sent back to me which is obviously a good thing and often a pleasant surprise since I forget most of the time I have that extra bit coming in at the beginning of the year. Of course if I were really smart I would simply put in the exempt on the tax form. Still I would much rather have a surprise of getting money than a surprise and owing money if it came to that. Since it hasn't come to that yet I'm not sure if that would make a difference or not. And I could probably use that extra money per week. So ya, exempt on the tax form would have been smarter.

Ok I think I'll finish with this possibly too long blog entry.