Inside of a Dog, It's Too Dark to Read

...This refers to the application you recently submitted to this office for the position shown below:

Position: Administrative Support Aid (Office Automation)

Series/Grade: 0303-05

Vacancy ID: 237382

Agency: Everglades National Park

Referred To: Everglades National Park

Duty Location: Homestead, FL





Your rating is based solely on your responses to the on-line questionnaire. You were rated eligible but your

rating was not within reach for referral to the employing agency.


(emphases mine)

Support position less than 3 miles from the house. I think she liked me, but they're trying to get this filled before the end of the week, so I'll know how much soon enough.

...which means I have to go nag at people now. Meh.

Meanwhile, Debbie took me to see Prince Caspian today. I haven't read the book in so long, I had no mental arguments or doubletakes going on. I thought the Prince himself had a pleasing resemblance to Keanu Reeves and 'Peter' might be set to be the next Cary Elwes, since Cary had abandoned what made him popular in the first place (irrelevant to talent, mind you).

My goodness, haven't the younger ones grown alarmingly! Actors are as bad as puppies. Their action scenes were so nicely done, I wonder if they kept up training between movies, or this is just actorish body memory and three months of hard pre-production.

I was surprised to see Slovakia as a location, but considering how closely the forest resembled that of a bright and sunny British Columbia, I'm fairly sure that's where Slovakia came in. Puzzling, though - they've got perfectly lovely forests in NZ. I measure all this by Xena, I should mention. It was not bad as a travelogue (so to speak) for an adventure show. :) My weird location bug kicks in at times like these. Wish I could find some way for it to make me money....

Anyway, I quite enjoyed the whole thing, book differences aside - some of them were, of course, because you don't pay actors to not be on screen. I loved seeing how the Xena/Hercules centaur technology looks with some serious money and another 5-10 years of technology applied. New Zealand, home of centaurs! Even more than the elves - the elves still have the Celtic parts of Britain to claim, even if they were shot down under.

It's hot here, and I have some mildly Mad Science to apply to a bathtub, and virtual mushrooms to hunt. :)

Snerk. Thanks for putting up with my brain having moved neighbourhoods, largely.

In no particular order:

• 'Barra Barra' by Hans Zimmer for Blackhawk Down is a kickin' piece of music.


• Meissa's bloodcount was borderline AGAIN and therefore her spay has been put off another month, only this time we're going to whack her with antibiotics, worming meds and more liver to Get This Done.


• I remembered where I left my cellphone. It's charging now.


• The cops were doing a hard search about 15-20 blocks north of here; I don't hear the news 'copters now, so it must have resolved already. However, they had Miami, Dade and Hialeah all surrounding an area from around NW 17th to NW 15th Avenue or so, and about... 40th to 48th Streets or so. One of the Hialeah cops was actually standing at his unit's door with his shotgun out, and I saw them working some K-9s. Quite a stir.


• Still no e-mail replies to job apps - I sent stuff to on-line services, the county (government's pretty safe, yeah?) and my friend Debbie's place of work. Argh.