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Oblivion
April 22, 2006

A couple of weeks ago I got the game Oblivion for the XBox 360, and so far I have been pretty happy with it.

Oblivion is the next game in the series of the Elder Scrolls games from Bethesda Software. I remember the first of these games I played, Arena, back in college on Brian’s computer. Soon after we had finished with it, Amy Bremer started playing and came after Brian in a psychotic rage. Whether this was because of Brian or Arena, who can guess?

Oblivion reminds me of Arena in the way it starts. You are a prisoner at the beginning of the game, and through a fortunate set of events, you are able to free yourself and be thrown into a cataclysmic plot. The initial dungeon you must escape serves as an excellent training ground, one that Morrowind was sorely lacking.

My Worst Interview Ever
April 18, 2006

I was talking online with some folks the other day, and I suggested that we all create a new post of our worst job interview ever, and build a big linkfest. Well, here’s my interview post, and everyone else is welcome to join in.

I was working at Arby’s at the time, my first job after college. The pay sucked and the work was worse (meat jello?) and I was anxious to get out of the food business entirely and do something productive. That’s when I found the ad.

The help wanted ad wasn’t very descriptive. I don’t recall exactly the wording of it now, since it was so long ago, or what really drew my eye to it. I think it read something like, “Self-starters with management potential wanted. Start on ground floor of art warehousing business. Great money, great hours.” In all, anything was more attractive than slicing meat for 20 hours a week, so I called the number. The job, while still not explicitly defined during my phone call, sounded intriguing. They invited me to an interview to check out the operation and learn more about the job. So began my wildest interview ever…

What Happened to the Meetup?
April 15, 2006

I’ve been looking forward to this month’s WordPress meetup all week. Colin made mention of it via the 9 Rules blog, and that got a lot more of the Philly-area bloggers interested, if not for the WordPress meetup itself, but for the Blogger meetup that immediately follows. It’s really something that I was looking forward to, but it wasn’t meant to be for me.

Sometime Friday evening I started having severe tooth pain. I did not enjoy dinner, and when I got home the pain was so significant that I hardly slept.