Nearly three years

Almost three years have gone by since I updated this thing. That ought to have shaken the bandwagon jumpers and stalkers off of my exploits. To say nothing of the poor, dead, neglected links. A whole new Blogger format? Yikes. Something that has to get the axe, my old blog description: "the ill-conceived, poorly-written and seldom-updated inadvertanly pretentious ramblings of another opinionated guy with a keyboard and some spare time, standing where irony and hypocrisy intersect without any notable relevance or real purpose, with a tendency to bitch about sports. Flying well below anyone's interest radar for over a year now. You still here?" is gone. It's beyond douchey, and is only preserved in this post for purely archival purposes. I think the new one has a certain brusque snap to it. The first post below this posts to newspaper stories that have long since been archived. A ton of real-life stuff has gone on since then. I got a job. Then I left the job, moved and went back to grad school. Then I got married and bought a house, and found myself out of grad school. On a positive note, for the first time I'm living in a house with a basement, which if hackneyed stereotypes hold true, I must blog and anonymously comment from exclusively. I also got a decent paying, if somewhat demanding job, then for the first time in my life I actually got fired. Right before Christmas. So yes, the guy whose blog has always been titled "overeducated slacker" is unemployed. How droll. While going over some of my career "highlights" a friend noticed that I should write some of this stuff down, because it seemed hilarious. Fair warning: this friend also still cracks up at a good fart joke. So, in the interest of keeping my own sanity I'm going to go through my career history in the most entertaining way possible. There will be no names or locations used (which will closely mirror my no readers), just in case anybody stumbles on this anonymous, sloppily written screed in the future, I don't derail my employment opportunities. Besides, getting canned by a scandalous blog is sooooo 2006. I think the cool kids are getting the axe for Tweeting these days.