Odds and Sods

Deep breath.

Things are back to normal here. 

The job market has stopped for Christmas. I've been told nothing will happen now until the new year. More jam tomorrow. 

I was down at the Job Centre (did I decide it was one or two words? I can't remember). There's a guy there I've spoken to a couple of times now. No joy from him. And from the sounds of it, not much joy to be had anywhere. Still the veiled threat was nice. As was the completely bloody useless suggestion that I do a beginners IT course. 

I've been thinking about going back to GB. Then I remember. I spent 5 1/2 years in GB, 5 of which I spent wanting to go home. There's no pleasing me. But at least I now know what I want. Not what I have at the moment.

I've been noseying on the various jobs sites (Go figure). I saw the perfect job. Ironically it was a 30 miles from where I used to live. Of course I sent my CV in. And of course I heard nothing.

Looking at the Belfast Telegraph's self proclaimed "Job Finder" on Friday evening. (Now this shouldn't be mistaken for the thing they have online, which, looks like a skimming site) Interestingly there was an job advertisement (not for me) that had a little disclaimer at the bottom. "CVs submitted via Agencies will be rejected." Good for them.

I've been invited to save up to 50% on all clothing purchased via the Play website. As far as self evident offers go that's the best I've had in months. I mean if something has no saving (or 0% if you prefer) then it still falls within the scope of this offer as the saving is cached as "up to 50%. Thanks Play. That's not an offer not too good to not refuse. (See what I did there?) 

I tried looking for cheap CDs on Amazon. Now I'm sure this is simply down to me being an idiot but I couldn't find a way of sorting the CDs alphabetically. Call me "picky", but trying to find an album on the basis of how well reviewed it was, or by it's release date, or by it's sales performance, doesn't strike me as being particularly intuitive. I mean you don't go into HMV and see the CDs organised by the number of copies they've sold do you? If you did I'd imagine it would be like the late unlamented Zavi / Virgin, who seemingly used some strange equations based on chaos theory and fractals to decide how to organise their CDs. (You know I was shocked when Zavi went bust. I found it completely inexplicable. Or something). Did someone at Amazon think "we don't need to put things in alphabetical order or even have it as an option as these alternatives are so much better?" Needless to say I didn't bother my hole. I couldn't face the rigmarole. So I bought them from Play "with up to 50% off".   

I'm back to listening to my MP3s again. At the moment I've got the ambient selection on. It just seemed appropriate.  

And breathe.