well i didn’t get that video archivist job i was hoping for.  its probably all for the best though.  turns out they offered it to a freshly graduated college student who was happy with $22k/yr ($10.50/hr).  honestly it would have been hard for me to live on that while supporting a family.  i do feel ripped off though.  mostly because i have a family and i have “too much experience”, which blows my mind because when i was fresh out of college i did not have enough experience and i could not have found a job like that for the life of me.  in the last interview they guy told me that i was “over qualified” for the job, which made me feel that i should have been running the place since there is no way i was more qualified than the other 2 guys working there.

that said its time to power through and trust God that there is something better out there for me, even though we have almost no money right now.  so i am going to keep going with Artvark as long as work comes in.  there is also the possibility of help out another production company in the very near future who maybe getting a contract with the Food Network for one of there shows. needless to say i am praying that they get it! there is also still a glimmer of hope for that Graphics gig at KSTP.  sounds like they are waiting till July to review the need for the position, which i know they need the help.  so now we are praying that they need someone on full time for that position because i know i will get that one since i was the one they wanted to hire before they put the job on hold.  so that is the update for now.  next post will be more fun!

this past weekend we went to my parents house for some odds and ends. one of those was going through some of my old stuff and old computers that we had sitting in the basement. there were tons of old video components and random other things, but the main attraction was my old Video toaster computer. man that thing was loaded up! (for 1993). i think it must have had at least 2GB of Hard Drive Space in it! Also the NewTek Video Toaster with which i edited video, animated with Lightwave and a few other things. i also has “personal animation recorder” in there. what that did was record my animations to the hard drive so i could watch them or record them to Video tape (imagine that). the kicker was that i was able to do all this on a 33 MHz processor! amazing!

we plugged it in to see if it would start up. it seemed to but i don’t think the hard drive was spinning properly. so we opened it up and when my dad took out his handy dandy little flashlight to look the top fell off and shorted the computer out. (this was because Miles was playing with the flashlight and has recently learned to unscrew things. needless to say he unscrewed the flashlight). so off to the recycling it went. no worries. i don’t think it worked any more any way.

we went to como zoo this weekend with our best friends.  it was a lot of fun.  como is a nice zoo for a free zoo.  they have monkees and giraffes and lots of animals!  we actually saw one of the gorillas up close just taking it easy.  this does not happen often.  usually they sit back and do nothing this time of year because it can still be a little too cold for them to be outside.  oh well, it was still fun.  there is also a brand new baby orangoutang named Java!  it is very cute!  (i wish that i could have gotten a photo).  it was also amazing to watch the mother orangoutang and see the parenting skills that she has.  just amazing.