Unfortunatly you were unsuccessful

Those 4 words that you hope you will never have to read when you rip open a letter that you knew was coming. Well I read them this morning when I had a ;etter from the Wales Coop Centre in Cardiff. Well thats the way it goes. However there are a few things that I would liek to get off my chest: There were 11 vacancies and 16 applicats, was I that bad that 11 other people were better than me. Take this, along with the Penlan failure, then I am started to wonder if this is just a minor hiccup or part of a trend starting. I was understandably a bit pised off about the whole thing.

The Chosen One

Just so that I do not hurt any feelings, I am writing a post just about the Chosen One. I have even titled it after him. Dare I say it, his latest comment in the chatterbox (on the right) is close to the truth. He does keep most of the room (if not the floor) entertained with his comments and jokes (and his inability to actually put rubbish in the bin). So I hope he is happy now, although H will probably complain now (It just goes on and on) Bye

Communities@1

What a day! I left the house at 8am on the dot, thinking that that would give me enough time to get to the Wales Coop Centre ( had to be ther by 10 am). Guess what time I got to actually sit in a chair in the main room – 10.45am. The traffic was absolutely terrible. Fortunately they were very accepting on the traffic issue as others had been drifting in at differing times and ther was one other person that arrived at 11am. Net result I missed the Ice Breaking exercise and I sat in the only available chair I could find at the time, at the end, inbetween the people that were running the show. It took me a few seconds to realise this as they were saying hello to me and being polite. Then they were talking to everyone else about the progam for the day and it sunk in, Ooops I am sitting in the wrong place. We were then split into 4 groups, each group had to discuss a scenario and then do a presentation to the rest of the groups discussing their answers to the problem. Each group also had 2 observers watching and writing. So what did I do in my group – No much, it seemed the other three were in a race to get the most milage out of their tounges. Unfortunately I tend not to talk too much in these situations unless I got something worthwhile saying, however, when I did speak up it was to cut through all of their crap and get to the point which I hope the observers noticed. After the presentations it was lunch (favourite part of the whole day) and then we were given times for our interviews, after which we could go home. So what did I do in the interview, froze on the first question and then chokled on the water. Fortunately one of the interviewers asked me to talk about myself for a little bit, which sort of broke the ice and I managed to get back into the swing of it, then all of a sudden the seven set questions were finished and I was still wanting to talk to them, to explain how much more I knew. So when they asked if I had any questions I first asked about the location of bases for the brokers and then asked a question about how much support were the brokers expected to give to the community groups (ie, just ITC or Constitutions, Equal Opps, etc.) This gave me the opportunity to expalin some of my other experiences, which I noticed one of them writing stuff down about – so I hope it worked. One very good point is that they were hoping to employ 11 brokers for the projecy and there were only 16 of us there on the day. So I might stand a reasonable chance, just hope that if I do get offered a post that it is the Swansea one. Well I will keep you all posted when I know more and thank you all for the support and luck, you all know who you are. Until next time, Bye

Scary time ahead

Well I am slowly building up my general level of nervousness. Monday is approaching and I have a very important interview for a job (As H. has said in the tag board on the sidebar). In a way its lucky I am not working over the weekend as I would probably be a bear with a sore head. Perhaps if I can find some time to chill over the weekend it will help me out. Other than that I will probably post about it on Monday evening when I get back from the Interview (if its good news). bye for now……..

Of cars, bison and italian flags

Well today I feel as though my head is about to explode due to the amount of websurfing that I am presently doing in order to come up with appropriately themed questions for the Interactive quiz that I have been working on. I now know some facts about Europe, that, quite frankly I did not need to know and if given the choice would prefer not to know. Yesterday morning was a nervous start to the day as I had to let someone else drive my car in order to pick up Shel (our friend from the States) from the train station. This invovled me picking up Liz and then dropping of her daughter and my nephew off at school and then obviously driving to work. The nervous bit was watching Liz driving the car away and stalling it after about 5 feet, Great Start……….But thinking about it, it was bound to happen really. I will talk more later about Shel, and first impressions…..

Suprises in 3D

Well last night, or should I say early this morning I went to bed, after an interesting time on the internet/computer. I have been persuaded to take up the 3D gaunlet and start designing 3D objects again for some of the virtual communities on the internet. I used to enjoy making 3D objects before, but just have not had the time to devote to it. But life changes as do your priorities. So last night I designed, of all things, a Park Bench. I then spent another hour tweaking it so that it would be acceptable to Oddessey (a virtual community). The Surprise was that a person I was talking too in Oddessey remembered me from 3 years previously in another virtual community, and also remembered some of the 3D items that I used to create. Did I make that much of an impression on this person, little unassuming me. I was shocked, surprised, pleased, amused and probably a few other descriptive words. I now ask the question of myself, do others remember me, people who I may of only known in passing and have since forgotten about? What impact, if any, did I have on their lifes?

Catching Distant Memories

For the last few days I have been looking backwards, into the past, to fond memories of yesteryear and old friends that for some reason I seem to be missing. I used to hang around a website called Cybertown until my work obligations became too much to have such a huge interest. So as time went by I lost some of my friends from various places around the world. But now after several months of surfing the internet and not really talking to anyone, and with the sudden increase in my personal time due to a change in work I am trying to find a way to relive the past, which I know will probably end in disaster, but I will try anyway……