I heard from Dave at TriBridge today. We’re gonna meet for happy hour around 5:00pm tomorrow (August 27th) and discuss my potential employment. I guess we’re skipping Round 2 and going straight to Round 3 of the interview process. Wish me luck.

Sick Thought of the Day: Beans Above The Frank

It’s been just over a week since Charley hit South West Florida. Fortunately, it missed Sarasota entirely. Unfortunately, it hit Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte (50 miles southeast of here) and devastated them. A friend of mine, Naser, lives down there. We finally got word from him that he, his wife, and the kids are all OK and he’s moving them up to Tennessee for awhile until everything gets back to normal.

So, fast forward to today; I get a phone call today at 2:20pm from my recruiting agency. They tell me that they have a possible job opening with a company, TriBridge in Tampa, who outsources web and Visual Basic development work. They were in a hurry to set up a phone interview with me and the company, so we scheduled it for 2:30pm. Sure enough, my cell phone rings at 2:27pm and I spend the next 20 minutes or so talking with Tony, one of the partners of the company. At the end, he told me that I had really good communication skills and that he was glad to hear I was excited about the technology they use (Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003). On a scale of one to ten, ten being a shoe-in, I got the feeling I ranked like 8.5. However, he told me that Dave would be calling me today sometime to set up a technical phone interview (Tony’s not a highly-techie kinda guy from what I gathered; he was talking to me to listen to my people skills, etc.).

Tony hasn’t called yet, but Mike, my recruiter, touched base with me around 4:00pm and I told him what Tony and I discussed. Mike suggested next Friday (Sep. 3) as a possible “face-to-face” interview. I agreed. We’ll firm that up soon too.

Sick Thought of the Day: Rumbling Bedpans

The time is almost upon us. I live in Sarasota, FL, which currently lies smack-dab in the middle of the path of hurricane Charlie. Yeah. Great.

Shauna and I will most likely weather the storm at home, even if it’s in the bathroom in the middle of the building. Currently, it looks like Charley will be knocking on the front door around 8:00pm Friday, so we have a little time. I expect I will make a definite call tomorrow morning if we’ll stay here or get in the car (me, Shauna, our two cats, my mom and sister, and their cat and dog) and head East towards Lake Okeechobee.

They say the storm will be a strong Category 3 by the time it gets here. Needless to say, there are a lot of people that are nervous over this one. A hurricane of this magnitude hasn’t hit the Suncoast since 1960.

If we come out of this pretty well off, then there’s the issue of getting over to my office to try to asses the problems there and try to get the business operational by Monday. At this point, I’ll wager that 50% of the office will not be usable. Yeah. Great. We’ll see.

Happy fucking Friday 13th. Wish us luck.

Sick Thought of the Day: Charlie