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Hated work project is through review and with the final signer, and he's fast. Reward will be next hated phase. Fiber reward arrived in record time, literally the day after I ordered. That shop is located a couple of hours away and I know the owner (runs fiber retreat that has been canceled for the last two years), but I'm still boggled. Etsy won't let me leave a review until Sunday.
Other exciting job news is interviews. Brother in law emailed me for advice on an interview. He's also a geologist, but has been working as a driller since he finished his degree. Being a driller is hard on a body, especially in your mid forties with rheumatoid arthritis and he's hoping to shift to the environmental direction. Sadly, I don't know much about the job he applied to, as it's more in the prevention side compared to the remediation side I have any experience with. So I pointed him towards the Ask a Manager interview tips. On a related note, I am scheduled for an interview myself next week. Position is a promotion to doing all the things I currently do plus coordinating developing technologies (i.e. scheduling webinar/ads and tracking which exciting things we get to do). It's not the promotion I really want (which should be posted in March), but I figured it would be good for practice. I expected that I answered to honestly in the screening to make it to the interview stage, but.. Now I have to do well enough to impress the committee so the like me for the next position, but not get this one. Honesty?
Also, Lawnchair finally caught covid last week. He's fine, though still fighting a cough. I got achy bones for a day, but tested negative. It was a nice excuse to not go in to the office today.
I'm almost done with current giant shawl. Based on weight, I should have enough yarn for two more rows and then bind off. The pattern allows for knitting as much as you have yarn for, and since this is a gradient (light yellow to dark brown) I want to use as much as possible. I'm still pretty much right at the pattern as written, though I would have preferred a few more rows of the final garter stitch.
In a spinning group on facebook, my comment about my Rambouillet shawl led to a request of a picture. This is the last large shawl, plus my attention seeking cat.
Other exciting job news is interviews. Brother in law emailed me for advice on an interview. He's also a geologist, but has been working as a driller since he finished his degree. Being a driller is hard on a body, especially in your mid forties with rheumatoid arthritis and he's hoping to shift to the environmental direction. Sadly, I don't know much about the job he applied to, as it's more in the prevention side compared to the remediation side I have any experience with. So I pointed him towards the Ask a Manager interview tips. On a related note, I am scheduled for an interview myself next week. Position is a promotion to doing all the things I currently do plus coordinating developing technologies (i.e. scheduling webinar/ads and tracking which exciting things we get to do). It's not the promotion I really want (which should be posted in March), but I figured it would be good for practice. I expected that I answered to honestly in the screening to make it to the interview stage, but.. Now I have to do well enough to impress the committee so the like me for the next position, but not get this one. Honesty?
Also, Lawnchair finally caught covid last week. He's fine, though still fighting a cough. I got achy bones for a day, but tested negative. It was a nice excuse to not go in to the office today.
I'm almost done with current giant shawl. Based on weight, I should have enough yarn for two more rows and then bind off. The pattern allows for knitting as much as you have yarn for, and since this is a gradient (light yellow to dark brown) I want to use as much as possible. I'm still pretty much right at the pattern as written, though I would have preferred a few more rows of the final garter stitch.
In a spinning group on facebook, my comment about my Rambouillet shawl led to a request of a picture. This is the last large shawl, plus my attention seeking cat.
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Glad you guys survived your COVID encounter. Good luck in you staying clean.
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