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Well, on the job search front today things were pretty slow. I had one interview, and that was it. It was a pretty good interview, I think; they're looking for a serious Pythonista with some heavy web development skills, but they also want those development skills to be skewed toward social media. It's a big shopping list; I meet a lot of their requirements, but not all of them. I do meet the main ones, though, and the others are minor: all libraries, even web APIs, are just libraries to be learned. Doing that is pretty easy.

Kouryou-chan, on the other hand, developed a rash this morning, so Omaha and I took her to the physician. She has fifth disease, a common viral skin infection that often hits kids at this age. The school was nonchalant about the whole thing; apparently, it goes around once a year or so, and this was that time. The disease gets its common name from being the fifth disease in some old classic textbook on childhood diseases. It has the official name of "Erythema infectiosum," which if you say it emphatically, sounds like something from a Harry Potter movie: "Erythema Infectiosum!".

It doesn't help that the name basically means "infectious rash."

I worked mostly on Omaha's development project. I'm getting a few good posts out of it: How to create a glowy logo like the ones used in Apple ads, how to create a cylical memo, and the Simplest Tabs In The Universe, among others. Oh, and always use a revision control system! Re-learning a lot of the WordPress API; haven't done much with it since the Tina Orwall campaign, and both by CSS and my GiMP-fu are stronger now.

We had leftovers for dinner, there were a ton of 'em. And then we went to the pool, swam for an hour, got exercise. And now we're home and getting ready for bed. Maybe I'll get some writing in. That would be fun.

Date: 2009-04-23 07:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sianmink.livejournal.com
I knew you would be able to move on quickly and get back on the horse.

Despite sending out resumes and applications and making my spam count spike, I haven't even had a callback since October.

Date: 2009-04-23 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfs.livejournal.com
Really? That sucks. Have you had your resume reviewed and tweaked it at all?

Date: 2009-04-23 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sianmink.livejournal.com
Sorry about that I don't really need to dump my venting at you.

I refurbed it as soon as I got laid off with some help, it's pretty tight as far as I'm concerned. I just dunno. Being the SJ bay area, things are pretty dire here anyway.

Date: 2009-04-24 06:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caprinus.livejournal.com
Not just any "infectious rash", "red infectious rash"! Medicalese is all about using bad Greek and Latin to make the banal seem obscure. Hope it passes soon!

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