OK, yes…I wish I’d written this. Having confessed that, I can recommend this “Review of Blogs…” by Joe Lavin as a good, and I hope not entirely true, comment on the perils of blogging.

That, my friends, is the sound of relief.

I went to a job interview this morning, filled out the application and various other forms and took a test on networking support. I was quite concerned about my ability to pass a networking test. Networking is perhaps my weakest subject, having spent less than a week at school covering the subject. So the last few days I’ve been reading up on the OSI model, TCP/IP, wireless networking, routers, LANs, WANs, WENs… My eyeballs are swimming in acronyms. On top of that, I was told that I could only miss 5 questions on the test to qualify for an interview. Let’s just say I wasn’t planning on being interviewed.

Imagine my surprise when I was.

Then I was told that there weren’t any more of the part-time positions that I had applied for, but since I was interested in full-time, they’d see if there were any available. “We’ll call you” I was told. That’s often not a good sign in my experience.

Less than an hour later, I got a call.

Starting Monday, I’ll be attending a week of training for my new, full time position as a support technician for Aradiant Corporation, working on the D-Link support team.

I still don’t know how well I did on the test…but you can bet I’m still studying my networking books. I’m taking notes now.

Well, it was ugly, and at times it looked like the little varmint would escape the fate in store for it, but last night I decided to kill off the blog attached to my Jebers.com website. It clung desperately to life, refusing to be deleted from my host as a unit, forcing me to go in and rip out its guts one file at a time.

I never read what I call “blah-blah” blogs. You know, the ones that are filled with entries that read, “Today I bought new shoes. They’re really cool” or other topics that mark them as totally personal blogs. I don’t mind them, or think they somehow devalue blogging, I just don’t read them. I try hard to make my postings fun to read, and as I’m operating on just a few remaining brain cells (did I mention I’m getting older and should have taken better care of myself?) I’m finding it enough to try and maintain my four main blogs, two on Blogger and two on Type Pad. Each has its own purpose, but JHD-blog didn’t. It consisted of entries better posted to my forum. Since I couldn’t justify its existence, I knew it must die.

This incident made me aware of another reality. As much as I like and use WS_FTP, there are times that the FTP function built into Power Desk 6 functions so much better. Working with a folder on a remote site as if it were on your local drive is intuitive and easy.

I think that is enough for a review. See the previous empty entry? That was a rather lengthy post all about how I was checking out this software to do remote blogging called BlogWeaver, and how I intended to review it once I’d used it a few times. Well, after the first usage I went to uninstall it, and found out it doesn’t want to uninstall via add/remove programs , either. Read the full review here. I should have it published pretty soon. (Hint: don’t waste your time)

Since I’m too old to move back home to Mom’s house, I’ve decided to move her in with me. Actually, due to circumstances, Mom will be moving in with me next month, the very same month my current job comes to an end. You say coincidence, I say the stuff is all hitting the fan at the same time.

Not that I don’t think her moving in here isn’t a good idea. She can’t really afford to rent her own house on her limited income and at 81, she needs someone who can check in on her on a daily basis. Neither one of us is a very social person, so it’s not like our parties are going to disturb one another. And we both enjoy spending time on the computer. So I imagine we’ll get along OK. But it is going to be very weird for a while. Despite the fact we’re good friends, I haven’t lived in her house since I was 16 years old, 34 years ago, and she’s lived independently for those years as well. It’s going to be quite an adjustment for us both. Meanwhile, I’ve rented a storage unit to fill with all our extra furniture and everything else that won’t fit in the house with two people living here. There’s a lot of work to be done between now and then. And a full-time job to think about as well. Then, come January, all that activity will be over. That’s when I’m planning on having my nervous breakdown.

I need another cup…