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No bars here Mr AT&T

Monday, October 6th, 2008

UK flagToday has been rather hectic in the job hunt arena.  A telephone interview (after last week’s failure to communicate) with a bank in Cleveland and arrangements for a face-to-face set of interviews in Buffalo.  Things are looking up.  We must be on the “quick, quick” part of the employment tango.

piggy bank graphicI think today’s telephone interview went well, but should I be joining a bank while the economic turmoil is as it is?  Will the bank still be there when I turn up on my first day?  It wouldn’t be the first such event - old news, but topical, from the Independent newspaper.  I wouldn’t like, after all our efforts to relocate, to end up in that position.  Which bank?  Right now, does it matter?  No bank seems to be ’safe’.

All the phone calls today have highlighted the dead zone for cell signals in our rental house.  We knew it existed, but today it has been particularly problematic.  It isn’t just AT&T….the Jolt phones we had to tide us over when we first arrived had the same problem.  Just one room seems to be affected, and unfortunately it is the room we’re using for our technology stuff.  Sod’s Law strikes again :-(

Tomorrow I think we’ll nip over to Cleveland to do a bit of on-the-spot research into houses, districts, etc.  The trip last month to Buffalo was very useful so let’s go look at Cleveland!  (Where did I put the Satnav?)