Mostly a quiet week down here, which is why I haven’t posted anything (well that and LJ getting hammered by DDOS attacks). A couple of items of note, though…

Had a pretty good phone interview on Wednesday with a potential employer. This is going to be an interesting one. Professionally speaking, the position is an excellent challenge – document, optimize, and learn everything a manufacturing line, then disassemble it and move it to another location. There is simply no better way to learnt he ins and outs of manufacturing than this, short of designing and building it from scratch. The downside? The line is currently located in St. Johnsville, NY – that’s about halfway between Albany and Syracuse, in case you’re wondering. I would be there until about the end of the year or so, then the position and the line would shift to Carol Stream, IL – that’s just northwest of Glen Ellyn, outside of Chicago. Now, they’ll pay relocation and (I would assume) temporary living in New York. There’s a lot of questions about what Takaza would do in the meantime, logistics of relocation and when, that sort of thing. Anyway, the next step in the interview process would be to fly up to New York, tour the plant, and interview with folks there. Next, there would be interviews either at the company HQ in Connecticut or at the Carol Stream facility. I should know either today (unlikely, this late in the day) or early next week if I’m into the next round of interviews.

Other stuff this week – made an interesting sugar-spice bread yesterday – orange zest, sugar lumps (that melted on baking to make amazing pockets of syrup in the bread), cinnamon, and allspice. Very tasty, but a bit strong for my tastes. Fortunately, Dan likes it, so that’s cool.

Went benchmark hunting today, and did just terribly. 0 for 6. Two of those were destroyed (the price of progress), the other four I just couldn’t find, even though I’m sure I was within a ten-foot radius of them. From now on I’m staying away from the markers described as being “two inches above the surface of the ground” – keep in mind all these descriptions are at best 23 years old, and a lot can change in that time. I’m sticking with markers that are on buildings, road structures, and the like. Either that or I need to start carrying a shovel and a metal detector…

Tonight? Probably going to do dinner with Thomas & Sherry and Donald & Janelle somewhere. Tomorrow we have the Gang Secret Santa party – this should tell you how difficult it is to match everyone’s schedules around the holidays 🙂