Mood: Awesome.
Music: Don't Leave Me This Way, Communards
Game: World of Warcraft, COD2, Dungeons and Dragons Online (Khyber Server), Oblivion
Book: Learning PHP 5, Sklar/O'Reilly
Weather: 55, partly cloudy.
Jobs applied to today: 0.
Have another phone interview for that job tomorrow morning. Very excited!
Need to head into the city tomorrow after the interview and buy a suit. The suits I have are old, and don't really fit all that well any more. Thinking conservative...charcoal grey pinstripe. Wondering if it's not a little over the top. Gladly taking opinions. Suits obviously aren't my milieu.
WoW patched yesterday...that meant all sorts of insanity as something went wrong with their updating process, knocking the servers out for the better part of 18 hours. As for me, I don't really expect much better than that...this was a pretty major patch. But by reading the forums and such, you'd think the world was ending. Amazing how addicted some people are.
I've stopped playing GR:AW. Not because I don't like the game...quite the contrary...I like it a lot. Oblivion has all but destroyed any chance of finding anyone to play with. My friends list is full of people playing Oblivion. And I can't say I didn't expect it...but I've never seen a game take over the Live community like Oblivion has. It's VERY fun...and curiously, DOES have replay value. There's so much to do that you can play several characters and never do the same quests twice...not to mention that certain quests become available or unavailable based on who you are, how you play, and who you mess with.
In other news, I still find myself enjoying DDO once or twice a week. It's a nice change of pace from WoW...and I don't get the "addicted" hook, like WoW. DDO is perfect for the casual gamer. You can jump in, play a very satisfying 90 minutes, and leave, feeling you accomplished things.
As experienced MMO players will tell you, one of the hardest parts of playing an MMO is finding a group to play with, and that if you "only have an hour" you have no chance of really being able to accomplish anything. DDO is all about the quick chunk of action. Since you can't really do ANYTHING solo, you can almost ALWAYS find a group in minutes of looking, and head on in.
Anyway, I think I'm gonna get back to coding. Wish me luck tomorrow.
By the way, my birthday is on the 3rd. Be sure to buy me lots of presents. I'm getting old.
Posted by Glenn at March 29, 2006 11:16 AMYeah so I buy a suit about once a year. I purchased a new suit this year and it is ... charcoal with grey pinstripes.
Some advise on the style though:
- two button is much more popular right now over three button
- I can't think of what they're called, but the popular style right now on the back of the jacket seems to be to have two "slits" instead of one in the middle ... different look
- flat front pants are more contemporary than pleated pants
- the current style is to NOT have your shirt sleeves showing slightly when wearing the jacket but I couldn't handle that ...
- I didn't get cuffs on my most recent pants; again, a matter of taste and style. All my other suits have cuffs and I wanted something different .. YMMV
I remember the "interview guru" coming and talking to us at MU about interviews. His advice was dark suit black or grey, white shirt, and dark tie. He suggested there's some psychology behind colors you wear, and suggested buying dark red/maroon ties.
But I don't buy this crap. I've never remembered anybody I've interviewed other than people who don't dress well or don't wear a suit. So just get a professional looking suit, shower and shave, don't wear too much aftershave, and you'll be fine.