T**tter Archive — Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 (@thereisnocat)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 6:19:58 PM

thinks that the later it's getting, the smaller and cuter the trick-or-treaters are getting.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 4:19:38 PM

just got his first trick-or-treaters who actually looked like they were wearing costumes.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 4:07:46 PM

just got his first trick-or-treaters after a half hour of watching others just walk by

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 3:52:15 PM

just found his social security card; good thing, they require it at the unemployment office, and I have an appt tomorrow

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 10:53:08 AM

is reminding himself that it's a bad idea to count on anything until the money is in hand

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2007 at 11:27:20 AM

@surlyshirley no, just a contract gig. A very lucrative contract gig.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2007 at 10:08:58 AM

is scanning a ton of paperwork to fax to his new contract house

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2007 at 2:36:12 PM

has started routing the wood for the DVD bookcase

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2007 at 5:16:13 AM

@doublesided no, just a sensible adult who knows that that stuff is best kept offline. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 27, 2007 at 10:55:50 PM

thinks it's getting ugly late in the game in Happy Valley.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2007 at 8:50:48 PM

just spent an hour reading every last entry on I Work On The Web. Good stuff.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2007 at 5:14:31 PM

@surlyshirley Will do sometime tonight. It's on DVD; not sure if they've released it on CD.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2007 at 2:07:57 PM

thinks Calexico's cover of The Minutemen's "Corona" might be even better than the original, which was already one of the best songs evar.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2007 at 11:19:01 AM

is designing a bookcase to hold all our DVDs

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2007 at 11:45:50 AM

didn't blow the interview. Looks like the job is mine if I want it.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 23, 2007 at 11:29:10 PM

is IMing with Jan about Glenda's singing habits

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 23, 2007 at 12:57:28 PM

@surlyshirley I've been limiting my game playing to evenings and insomnia sessions; no games during the day

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 23, 2007 at 9:50:59 AM

has the incidental music from Katamari Damacy playing on auto-repeat inside his head

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 22, 2007 at 4:29:31 PM

is applying for unemployment benefits

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 22, 2007 at 2:15:05 PM

did well in his phone interview just now; I suspect I'll get a callback from this one

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 22, 2007 at 9:34:22 AM

is setting up another job interview

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 6:13:56 PM

waited for 45 minutes in a drizzly parking lot for someone from work to hand over his laptop before giving up when they didn't show. Jerk.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 4:01:26 PM

is deleting stuff from his work laptop in preparation for turning it back in

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 1:43:38 PM

just got a call from a recruiter looking for someone with a lot less experience than I have; weird

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 1:26:35 PM

has a phone interview set up with a startup in Jersey City for Monday (yes, that one, @kimmieblessing, thanks)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 1:25:43 PM

@surlyshirley thanks!

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 18, 2007 at 8:41:29 PM

tuned in just in time to see Rutgers tie the game

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 18, 2007 at 10:18:45 AM

@goodwitch didn't you have a hand-me-down G4 PowerBook? If you've got VMWare, you must have gotten new hardware

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 18, 2007 at 4:01:37 AM

wishes he could sleep more

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 5:00:14 PM

is checking the time in Bangalore; hmm, 2:30 in the morning. Sucks to be a support person in India.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 4:38:27 PM

is dealing with trouble ticket bureaucracy for what is hopefully the last time at this job

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 10:48:42 AM

is amazed at his team lead's ability to restate the same thing over and over and over again in slightly different ways

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 10:45:01 AM

is in another transition session; this time, I'm just answering questions

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 3:39:03 AM

is wondering why Movable Type blogs don't grab the "nickname" property from OpenID but instead derive one from your URL. Feh.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2007 at 3:15:48 PM

misses his USB turntable

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2007 at 11:26:10 AM

is tired of talking

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2007 at 9:59:16 AM

doesn't know what good another knowledge transfer session will do when what's needed is an attitude transfer

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2007 at 4:48:17 AM

is going to try to go back to sleep, even though I don't feel tired. Bah!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 15, 2007 at 5:33:02 PM

@goodwitch have you looked at A&M's athletics site to see if it's accessible? If it is, you could use it as a prod.... :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 15, 2007 at 10:50:50 AM

just arranged to hand over his laptop and other work junk on Friday

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2007 at 4:45:39 PM

is enjoying watching Penn State manhandle the Wisconsin Badgers

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2007 at 11:08:26 AM

has the moulding for the family room cut; now all it needs is primer and paint and I can install

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 11, 2007 at 9:11:50 PM

@lachlanhardy Congratulations!!!!

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 11, 2007 at 8:49:31 AM

is back at work. Bleah. Seven more days....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2007 at 10:42:51 AM

@surlyshirley going to Cape May until Wednesday; just about to leave, in fact

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2007 at 12:23:03 AM

feels kinda weird about going on vacation after finding out about getting laid off, but on the other hand, hey, vacation!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 6, 2007 at 8:03:47 PM

is watching ESPN's play-by-play announcers make fun of a TV show I used to work on at Penn State

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 8:27:43 PM

@doublesided we had our floors sanded and sealed yesterday and today too; family room and hallway only, not the whole thing.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 3:33:56 PM

@doublesided hell if I know; look for a new job, I expect

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 1:39:06 PM

@surlyshirley I think I will. I'm convinced that in the long term, it'll be the best thing to happen to me. Short term, I'm not so sure....

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 12:53:03 PM

just got notified of his last day at work, October 19.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 11:05:52 AM

thinks it's kind of creepy to operate another person by remote control

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 4, 2007 at 10:07:50 AM

just finished the first hour of training my replacements

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 4, 2007 at 8:12:35 AM

is letting the workmen in to start refinishing the family room floor

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 3, 2007 at 5:48:03 PM

is writing an entry for I Work On The Web

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 3, 2007 at 11:26:31 AM

iz in yr toiletz fixing yr fillvalvz

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 5:13:37 PM

is testing out the inflatable mattress we'll be using while the floors in the bedroom wing are being refinished later this week

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 1:37:55 PM

@epersonae tnx!

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 11:40:36 AM

@alunr Flip4Mac lets you export WMV files; http://www.flip4mac.com

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 5:03:12 AM

@alunr yes; Steve Jobs knows.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 3:08:22 AM

is awake and jumpy at 3 am. Bleah.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2007 at 9:18:42 PM

has a nasty headache.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2007 at 5:35:14 PM

@wnalyd heh, not like here in NJ where they only call daily....

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2007 at 5:20:42 PM

@andrea both, really; I haven't been doing web stuff and I've been unhappy, but a paycheck is a paycheck

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2007 at 4:56:44 PM

just got the heads up; I'll be out of a job in a few weeks