Domestic Geek

I just want to say thanks a lot to all the Californians and Texans who moved to Colorado and drove housing costs so high that I, a native, cannot afford to live here. I make about $32,000/year (nothing to sneeze at) and I couldn't get a house on my income alone. How insane is that? I heard the other day that the median house price in the Denver area is now over $200,000! Even out on the eastern plains, where housing used to be cheap, crackerbox houses are going for better than $150K. When is this madness going to end?

Happy belated Independence Day!

Wow, how prophetic was yesterday's post? The school's president got fired yesterday. Whoo hoo! Apparently the suits I saw wandering around the school yesterday were from the head office in Utah. My teacher showed up today, but we're unsure as to whether we will have an instructor on Thursday (no school tomorrow with the holiday). Supposedly the president promised him the money he was asking for to teach our class, but now she's gone and the interim president won't stand by anything promised the the old one. Oh, boy. Is this like living in a soap opera, or what?

Cheerier note: The job on the board I mentioned yesterday doesn't require Novell knowledge after all. There are a couple of other jobs that the placement person would like to submit my resume for. Guess I'd better get busy and get that updated tomorrow.

My poor dad is having a tough time learning this computer thing. He ended up getting himself frozen out of his credit union account. I hope we got that figured out for him today. He's turning into quite the solitaire player, though.

I forgot to mention that while I was waiting for a teacher, I saw a posting on the job board for a seemingly cool job. I inquired about it and was told that I needed to know Novell. Well, Novell is not offered anymore. What kind of decent networking school doesn't offer Novell?

I was right to dread. That school is so f***ed up. It's bad enough that the class schedule was not posted and we had to wait in a line to find out where we were supposed to be. Then the stupid teacher didn't show. I was so po'd that I left at 10:30. I couldn't concentrate to work on Visual Basic or even surf the internet. Oh, well. A bright note is that a friend of mine called me at noon and told me that the teacher is actually supposed to be there tomorrow. We'll see. I'm so tired of the nonsense there. That school is going to suck as long as it has its current administration. The school's president is a moron and a liar.