RIP

Who else but Dick Clark

When I came back from overseas, American Bandstand was the way to see new dances and hear new music and also get to see the artists. It was important to all teenagers in this country. I didn't care about his other hosting gigs but his music hosting made him "the man" (aka The Eternal Teenagers). The show started in 1952(!) and he started hosting it in 1956, until it left the air. And Soul Train didn't start until 1971. So there wasn't anything else, and nothing has ever matched its format of live music and live dancers all the time. I still miss it. And now I'll miss him.

Sigh

Didn't get the job with the Curate people. Disappointed, but not surprised.

Tomorrow I go to Wells Fargo and see if I can dazzle the corporate "folk" (euphemism). Must remember to show lots of teeth and make all my sentences go up at the end.

Job Hunting Again

So the remote bookkeeping didn't work out, for various reasons. So I'm looking again. Last Monday, I interviewed for the admin/bookkeeper job for the company that owns Curate restaurant, the Spanish tapas bar in downtown with the celebrity chef. Yes, it's fulltime but I'd really like to be a part of that family. The owners said they'd gotten lots of response to their ad (surprise surprise), so the odds are against me. Let's hope that I dazzled them.

I also have applied to be a part-time teller for Wells Fargo bank. This coming Thur. I go to a gang interview at the downtown bank, a sort of pre-interview sorting out. The money's not as good as the other job though it's not terrible but it's only part-time (Saturdays required).

I've also talked to a woman who needs a dogsitter regularly and a housesitter occasionally. She lives about a mile from my address. We're waiting to hear whether I get the fulltime job, which wouldn't leave me time to go to her house 2-3 times a day.

So, we'll see.

In other news, there ain't hardly any:
---I feel bad for MAM having to put down Dusty, the dog she rescued many years ago. That's always a wrench.
---I'm also hoping to get going on my little renovation project real soon now.
---I'm battling pissants.

Renovation time

I'm going today to choose fabric for my new seating area in the rig (where the dinette used to be and which has been full of book bins, printer, scanner, etc. ). I'd love to get something spectacular -- you know, embroidered dragons or the like -- but I must be somewhat practical. So we'll see.

I'm rethinking the cushion design again. I had planned to do two pieces -- one big one spanning the foot well and a smaller one to fill the rest of the space. But now I'm thinking I'll revert to my original plan and have two pieces that fit the seats and a third piece across the footwell. I'll have to put braces in to support it but it'll be easier to remove and sit with feet on the floor if desired. Then I can have a TV tray for a little folding table to put there to play cards on, say.

In an RV, flexibility is a good thing.

Oh yeah, I'm not being the bookkeeper for that company anymore -- did I mention that already?