Down and Out in Westchester County. Visited IBM Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights and Hawthorne, NY. My uncle is an important perosn in Global Services, who has important friends in Research, etc. I swear that IBM Research has at least one of everything, and that I TALKED to at least one of everything.
It turns out this was an "informal" visit, so that if there was a job oportunity I'd have to do it all again. And I alread blew a lot on money on cabs running around between the places. The last cab didn't go to the lobby in back like he was told, so I got to the train station just as my train was pulling out. So I got an extra stay in Croton until the next Amtrak came through.
And now it's freaking cold. By radar@poboxes.com.
heather made me sick!. Quite a trick for being 1751 miles away.
I've got another job interview tomorrow, and I've got to get up super early to get my travelling started. I may as well go to bed right now. By radar@poboxes.com.
Almost had it. I almost thought my Wednesday trip to IBM was worked out, but then they threw a monkey wrench into my plans. They've scheduled meetings at two different facilites, miles apart, and 30 minutes to get between the two. By radar@poboxes.com.
Intel. All of the interviewers made sure to ask me at least a few things I didn't know. There were plenty of oportunities to prove myself a fool, and I took advantage of them all. There wasn't too much obvious disgust, so I suppose I did well.
BTW, ground transportation thoroughly sucked. The shuttle van driver taking me out to Hillsboro drove past the hotel twice. I should have known things would be bad when he asked me what exit to take. The hotel van to the interview site didn't have me on the schedule, even though I asked at the front desk when I checked in. And the van never picked me up at all to go back to the hotel. Air transportation was only mostly bad, including the 18 plane lineup to take off from Chicago. By radar@poboxes.com.
The marvels of modern technology. "let's do some data mining". My sister is getting married on June 1st, and she’s just started a registry on target.com (at my suggestion, since... [mamamusings]
Now that you can put giant packages of Pepperridge Farm Goldfish on your wedding registry, complete spiritual fulfillment can be obtained. By radar@poboxes.com.
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