Sad Times

Today is a sad day for me. It's officially the day that I abandon Gentoo as a viable desktop solution. I still love it very much for the ability to have a powerful and customizable source based linux but I'm tired of fucking with everything. I'm getting to the point in my life that I don't want to spend 3 hours fiddling with config files and checking internet howtos to get the sound card to work. I just want it to work. So I wiped my Gentoo partition and installed Ubuntu. So long and I'm sorry to see you go but my home server will still be running Gentoo for as long as it is maintained by the Gentoo devs.

Jobs and Moving

I recently found out that my favorite video game company (still in existence) is hiring for a Linux system administrator. That may not sound like a wonderful job to most people but even just being in that environment would be amazing.

So I brushed up my resume and then decided not to do anything with it. I figured, if I didn't send it in, I wouldn't be disappointed anyways. Plus, with the housing market like it is and the mass joblessness, now isn't a good time to be moving around and becoming the new guy at some company because they are usually the first to go, right? So I did nothing.

Then as this week rolled on, it started eating at me. I have been wanting to move out of SC for a little while now and I've always wanted to work in a video game company. This seemed like a great fit (if it worked). I wrestled back and forth on the idea. The good: video games, linux, California (a lot of ppl like it, they can't all be wrong, right?). The bad: moving, selling a house, buying a house, California.

Well, whatever. The point of this post is that I finally did it. I sent in my resume and fell into the trap of feeling really exciting about something. I even looked up cost-of-living differences and house prices. Why? I dunno, dreams are hard to ignore even when you know it won't happen. Then I get a response (automated of course) and it says something about the large volume of applicants and how they can't respond to everyone and my heart sank again.

I wish I had never found out about this stupid job. I was completely content with my shitty job.