Has anyone shared a cover letter that landed them a job?
I don’t necessarily mean it was the deciding factor, but when you applied, you eventually got the job.
I’m curious to see what a successful cover letter looks like. So many people give advice of writing a good cover letter, but I’ve not often seen what a good cover letter looks like.
Anyone have an experience or example to share?
Happy Birthday to me!
I splurged and got myself a new job working in the private sector. No more contracting to the government. 🎉
Today’s walk felt good. A nice mid 50° day after Christmas and before the new year.
I needed to get up and take a walk this morning. I set out along a nice road paralleling train tracks so there’s no cross streets.
I passed a stump holding up part of a fence in a small yard.
A friendly pole did its job holding up power and communication lines without complaint.
Near the Midway point of my walk I passed the Bowen & Company, Inc site. I love old signs on buildings. There’s fewer around as the areas get developed and turned into luxury services or condos.
Across the street is a Pure Barre studio.
Do not try to update your router’s firmware at 11pm.
It could brick your router and after spending 2 hours trying to manually reinstall it using TFTP, you’ll still have no working router and be 2 hours more tired the next day.
I feel like I’ve written about this before - can’t remember whether it was here or not, but when trillion-dollar companies complain that things are “hard”, what they really mean is that they “do not want to do them” or that they are “not that important”, or perhaps more tellingly, that “there is no [perceived] profit in doing it”. Because, lest we forget, Google is a company that went from zero to having a gigantic fleet of sensor-laden cars driving around every single road in as many countries as they could, just so you could look at shops and the less said about having more data to sell ads against, the better.
Dan is talking about using Maps to find the safest route home. That’s a problem Maps can’t do for me yet. For all of the smart tools available to us, most of them aren’t very smart at all.
We had our solar system installed today. No more roof just hanging around not contributing to the household. No longer will sunny days be solely the source of sweat and discomfort.
Once the work is inspected, I can flip a switch as 21 solar panels will capture the sun’s rays and send them into The Grid.
This is my house.
Absolutely loving these glitch flower paintings.
This is Leopold. He was stationed at Maine’s Fort Knox. The only fort I’ve ever visited with a library and a reading room.
Other troops were sent there a few times in history. But they elected to camp outside the fort. There were so many places for cannons. And no cannons were ever sent to the fort.
This fort was built years too late. To combat a threat long past. It’s best seen from across the river, as it sits on a hillside.
I watched Another Life on Netflix. I enjoyed the journey and hope there is more to this world. 📺
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I love my Ikea Skarsta desk. It’s a hand-crank adjustable desk meant for sitting or standing. Truth be told, I mainly use it because I can never find a desk tall enough for my 6'5" frame.
When I got it, they did not have the larger desk top. Now, two years later, I am running out of horizontal space and decided to look again. They had it in stock at my local store so I went and picked it up.
So long 27"x 47". Hello 31.5" x 63"!
I’ve had it for two days and it was easy to replace the top and readjust the base. Other than it making me want to rethink how my office is laid out, I love it.
Looking to move on from Dreamhost where I’ve been for over a decade. It seems they’re pushing towards VPS plans and saying my meager WordPress sites are using too many resources.
What are you fine people using for shared hosting?
I’ve got a box to tinker on at home so not looking for a VPS.
Looking for blog hosting. WordPress. Known. Photo gallery. All personal.
Cpanel would be nice.
I like to try out new things.
Sandwinch.
Noun.
Usage: “I can make any kind of sandwinch. Turkey sandwinch. Peanut butter sandwinch.
Credit to my 6 year old nephew.
Just booked a trip to Belfast, Maine. There are so many weird attractions. I can’t wait to see them with lobster rolls in hand.
I would book a place to stay offering nightly thunderstorms under a tin roof for vacation. I grew up in one and there’s no calmer sound that rain on the tin roof in the summer.
I don’t know what the reward is for walking over 25om in a week. But this is the first time I’ve got it and I’m excited to see.
It’s been relentlessly hot this week but I used the Independence Day holiday and waking up early on the weekend to hit the goal including a nearly 4 mile walk this morning around my favorite lake.
That feeling when a Comcast line comes down in a storm. You struggle to get them out to fix it because you’re not a customer. Then that line takes out your Verizon FiOS line so you’re without internet.
I’m three phone calls deep with Comcast to get them to fix the line dangling across the street and have yet to get an appointment. I don’t know when someone will come out to repair it.
Verizon will be here tomorrow. And they’ve already been out once (but since it’s a Comcast line, the repair tech couldn’t do anything about it.)
Comcast. We call it Xfinity now, but it’s still the same terrible service it was a decade ago the last time I was a customer due to their monopoly.
If we had 3 or 4 kids from the 80s we’d have all of our problems solved in about 90 minutes.
I love seeing the woodpeckers at the suet feeders.
📚I finished reading Robert Caro’s Working. An interesting peek into his obsessive curiosity.
Played Mysterium tonight with Reesa and Michelle and had an absolute blast. (Sorry you missed out Stanley and Lori.)
The artwork is beautiful. The game is a cooperative Clue where a ghost passes clues to you about the murderer through abstract artwork.
We were successful in our first playthrough as a team. It was a great party game with a fair bit of setup. But it’s very easy to understand once you get going.
After this, we played possibly the wildest game of Fluxx. This is a game where you start with simple rules of “Draw 1, Play 1.”
Then the rules can change the number of draws. Or plays. Or the number if cards in your hand.
The goals to win also change constantly.
It’s a fun game where everything changes so quickly it’s hard to have any kind of strategy.
We spent most of the game with a hand limit of zero. We picked and played the same card for turn after turn. Until we finally got to draw 4 cards at once and Reesa got both cards needed to attain the goal and won.
Four hours of Tiller rental from Home Depot. 850 pounds of sand. 2220 pounds of pavers. 1 ton of pea gravel (almost). 1 fire pit.
My wife and I have spent the last couple weekends removing grass and earth and laying weed fabric, laying sand, leveling sand, laying pavers, re-laying pavers, and spreading pea gravel. But it’s been a wonderful project and it was nice to be able to sit outside on our patio around the (unlit) fire pit watching the birds eat at the feeders and a local deer wandered up to say hello.
As with all home improvement projects, it wasn’t fun doing it but I’m glad to have it done.