The Times They Aren't A Changing.

Shortly I will remove my ambitions from the realm of 'please' to the realm of 'yes'.
If I haven't found an employer who isn't unwilling to take me on as anything more than a driver, I will start making money as an independent man of affairs.


Talking of which, I have to say that I am not the only Black Sheep in the family; my step-relations are very young, and very ambitious, possibly perversely so.
The females seem to hold me in some sort of regard, possibly because they like tilting at windmills.
Obviously they are far too young.
But they are getting older and I am probably going to have to be quite firm.
One already has a consort older than me, but that is not the point.
My obscene pride holds me aloof from such doorstep shenannigans, but being a mean character these years past also means I am liable to change my mind just to prove a point.

Which point will probably be the original one, taking us both back to square one.

Meantime I have plans.
I am saving my coffee money for any contingency that may arise, such as a holiday in Vancouver.
Never been.
Hear good things.
Plenty of pastures fresh to be explored in that neck of the woods.

But I've got to say, one of the reasons I may have been rejected for employment so often is this blog(and others) which have presented a rootin', tootin', shootin' fightin' view of past situations, giving ammunition to any secret detractor(or open) who may have wished to frighten prospective employers away.

I have friends who have done the same thing, and they are similarly confined to a not-so-comfortable 'comfort zone', unable to progress or to stop.

As a result I have privatised the archive, so that the documentary evidence serves me and only me as an aide-memoire.

On the plus side, I did some work with Windows XP today, and was really very impressed at the ease with which a screwdriver, a few old bits and a phone line could be used to get someone operational again on the internet.

As far as unitary engineering is concerned, personal computers are becoming a mature and excellent technology.