Overconfidence and the PC, help from Jeremy, Headshots and Prospective Employment

So, at the urging of Jeremy (and thank you to Paula for the 8am referral to the J-man) I opened up my computer and blew away to dust to find part of the power supply has burned up and uncoiled. Oops. I removed it (no sweat) and brought it to buy a replacement at a small computer store where I was bringing in my dad's PC for warranty work anyway. I'm thinking "I am so efficient, I can do this, no problemo". Yah, right. I get the Power supply home and consult the drawing I had made of where everything was connected to make sure I am doing it right. There seem to be more connecters than before - but I know it's the same model Robby had installed originally. Um... man, my drawing is not as detailed as I had hoped. So I stare at the board for a while and connect things where they fit and hope for the best. Initially, I think I am golden. The PC boots up beautifully and I'm bopping along for a few minutes when the mouse and keyboard stop working. I force a restart and repeat this process 5 times before taking the case apart again and looking at the connections. I change a few things around, tighten this, secure that. Same thing. I try once more to change some connections. No help. I switched out my PC with my mom's eMachine (ah, the humility) and I think I might bring my PC to Gateway and try to sweet talk someone into seeing if it is hooked up correctly. I spent all night looking up pictures of power supplies and motherboards and trying to match up the connections but I'm running out of time so I think I'm going to go to Kinko's to make my head shots this afternoon.

Head Shots! So I have an audition tonight at ImprovBoston and I had to make a head shot, except the graphics Software is all on my PC and on some disks a box downstairs somewhere so... Kinko's it is!

So beyond the extremely lucrative world of Improv Comedy, I went and met with a head hunter of sorts last Thursday. I guess it's more of a creative placement agency. Regardless, they were very positive and upbeat about my writing and felt confident they could find me something in that arena relatively soon. It might be more of a junior technical writing position or maybe even non technical copy editing/ writing (hopefully no one looks at all the spelling mistakes in my blog. Yikes. One of the PC bugs I've been working on prevents me from getting into Blogger with any regularity, but I will edit soon!) I am excited about shifting the focus onto writing. We'll see.

BTW - Car was fixed by the dealership for free and we picked it up Wednesday evening. Excellent.

So perhaps things are moving forward at last?

More soon... the future awaits.