Why Now?

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News Alert: Obama administration to order lenders to cut mortgage payments for jobless
06:02 PM EDT Thursday, March 25, 2010
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The Obama administration plans to overhaul how it's tackling the foreclosure crisis, in part by requiring lenders to temporarily slash or eliminate monthly mortgage payments for many borrowers who are unemployed, senior officials said Thursday.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com:
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/RRHKUP/VNWW4/Y8MD9X/TCCVB7/D9QZ5/UP/t

My question is why now?  Would it not have made better sense and helped people to do this when they were doing the Economic Stimulus Package.  This could have helped me out a lot (and it still may).  I am sure the mortgage company lobby will be out in full force on this.

Spys, Terror, Organization

I just read this book and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Of course it helps that I have an avid interest in the CIA.  I really think this book was underrated when it came out (My wife found a hardback copy for sale at Dollar General for $1).

Mr Tenet and Mr. Harlow have a good writing style.  The book flows from Administration to Administration and from each area of concern to the next smoothly.  I don't want to give away much about this book, but it did confirm some suspicions and theories I had.  In conclusion, I would recommend At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA.

Another Interview

I recently had another job interview.  This job seemed to me perfect - an IT job in an area I wanted to live.  My skill set matched the ad almost perfectly.  I thought the interview went well.  Then I was notified by email that there was another candidate who matched more closely what they were looking for than me.

Nothing like a kick in the gut to wake you up.  From now on, I will redouble my efforts to find a job, refine my interview skills, review old skills and learn new skills.  I really need a job.

Commericalized Space

Is anyone following what President Obama has proposed in the way of the space program.  Here is a good post from NASA.  I hope they are listening to themselves.  We need to get this right.

I have been following the space program since I was a kid.  In many ways it inspired me to be the best I could be even faced with impossible obstacles.  I hope for the millions of kids around the world that they get the transition right and inspire those kids as I have been inspired.

Still looking for work.

I am still grinding out my job search.

I am looking for something either in the IT, Database, or Web industries.  I would like the job to be somewhere in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

I am hardworking, loyal, and am very good at analyzing business processes.

If you are hiring, or know of someone how is hiring, please let me know.

The search continues...

Shoveling!

Well for the last 7 days I have been shoveling snow and shoveling snow and then shoveling more snow.  We officially got a total of 52 inches of snow from 2 different storms.  Who needs to go to the gym when you have snow. 

On the job front, I have put two applications out this week. It was really hard with all the shoveling.  (Did I mention I shoveled snow this week?)

The kids will be missing a total of at least 7 days of school as they have already called off school for Monday.  They have really enjoyed the snow until today.  I think they got burned out on it.  I guess it's a case of too much of a good thing.

I Have a New Laptop

I bought a new laptop last week and I now have it up and running almost to my satisfaction.  Now all I need to do is find a job I can use it for.  If  you know of any IT or database jobs either in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia or a telecommute job, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.  Hopefully I will find something soon.  I am too good at what I do to be out of work for long. 

New Bloggers Added

Please look to the right hand column for new bloggers from Martinsburg, West Virginia.  Please go visit their sites.  If you are a blogger from Martinsburg (or anywhere in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia), leave me a comment or email me and  I will add a link to you.

If you don't want me to link you, let me know and I will take down the link.

As for my reading lately... I will update it very soon.

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone is safe and warm.  It has been a few weeks since I posted here...  Oh well. 

I have been reading up a storm here.  I will update the books in the next few days.  Not that anyone in actually reading this on a regular basis.

I am still unemployed after 6 months.  I really did not think it would be this long this time.  I really miss work -- of any kind.  But I will keep sending out my resumes, cover letters, and applications.  I will keep going on interviews.  Someone will eventually hire me.

I hope 2010 is better for you and me than 2009 was.

BlogShares "Untitled" Contest

There is a contest in BlogShares - a game where blogs are tracked, given value, and shares traded - where there are over 21000 untitled blogs in the index. The goal of the contest is to either give the blog a name or find if the blog is dead. A blog is considered dead in BlogShares if there has been no post to the blog in the last six months.

I will be tracking the blogs I find here. I will be updating this post all week so watch. If you want to get in on the fun, come to http://www.blogshares.com/, register, read the rules, and join in.


Monday, November 16, 2009


http://ashleymathews.spaces.live.com/ - dead
http://untitledprongsspace.spaces.live.com/ - dead
http://dwang99.spaces.live.com/ - dead
http://kevinyiu.blogspot.com/ - dead
http://mefirst1983.spaces.live.com/ - dead
http://bethacat.com/ - inaccessible
http://www.journalhome.com/golfclub/ - inaccessible - suspended
http://naturedelusion.blogspot.com/ - Title Changed from untitled to "Shrouded in darkness;"
http://www.journalhome.com/scott/ - inaccessible - suspended
http://birdincage.com/ - inaccessible
http://popopanda.wordpress.com/ - autoreferal to http://skchoi.org/ - inaccessible - posts not on first page
http://tracy-whitney91.spaces.live.com/ - inaccessible - need permission to view posts
http://www.journalhome.com/thompson/ - inaccessible - suspended
http://www.6ul-dv8.com/ - Title Changed to Untitled because a title would imply quality
http://vociferate.net/chameleon - inaccessable
http://scotthost.tumblr.com/ - non-blog
http://kourosism.blogspot.com/ - dead
http://deryckak.livejournal.com/ - Title changed to "World of Sound"
http://untitled-1.spaces.live.com/ - dead
http://www.journalhome.com/safaris/ - inaccessible - suspended
http://idanasi.blogspot.com/ - dead
http://www.joechung.info/untitled - dead
http://www.journalhome.com/andreypolnikin/ - inaccessible - suspended
http://lafuhrer.spaces.live.com/ - dead
http://www.journalhome.com/haveahome/ - inaccessible - suspended
http://keverz146.blogspot.com/ - dead
http://www.journalhome.com/granniesguide2/ - dead
http://www.allforthelove.com/steve - non-blog
http://pulp.orangephotography.com/untitled/ - dead
http://shokboy.blogspot.com/ - dead
http://alvinisking.blogspot.com/ - dead
http://www.journalhome.com/opulentusoverseas/ - inaccessible - suspended
http://whatisonlinegaming.com/ - non-blog
http://www.journalhome.com/lilychan/ - inaccessible - suspended
http://alokranj.blogspot.com/ - inaccessible

Updates throughout the week!