phone interview two weeks ago seems to have gone nowhere. my recruiter guy said they were interested in a face to face, but so far no phone call or response to my follow-up call, so i'm beginning to lose hope on that one. my one remaining bit of hope lies in the fact that they need to fill this position within a few weeks, and there's another they'd been interested in having me for opening up this summer. they may be trying to decide where they'd rather have me before they interview me more...just a long shot, but who knows. and it's been two weeks, so maybe they're just slow.

here's the food part: last night i made a second attempt at making fried rice. still failure, but not as dismal as the first time. this time i got the flavor right and the amount of egg right, but the texture is still just wrong. i'm beginning to suspect that the trick is to fry the hell out of the rice, but i also suspect that this will be near impossible without a proper wok.

i just told my boss that if he wants to UPS a piece of equipment (which is really, really a good idea since it's practically a miracle we havent had a problem yet) it'll cost him $900. this isn't much, really, but it didnt go over well. he also thinks we can run three computers and 3 pieces of equipment off this one (when half are across the room). if he wants that, we'll need something waaaaaay bigger....and probably some new wiring.

i'm out.