A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

Got an interview tomorrow. It’s an odd one. I know almost nothing about the job itself and it’s for a company that doesn’t show up on any search I’ve been able to compose. The web site it registered to the guy who contacted me.

OUGHT to be interesting.

Over the last day and a half I tried building on my candied ginger success with papaya, but it just doesn’t work. The boiling process breaks down the tough cellular structure of the ginger, so when it’s applied to something soft, with as high a water content as papaya, it nearly disintegrates. All that is fine really, but the final step, which with ginger is rolling it around in granulated sugar, just makes a godawful mess with the papaya. I spent most of the last 30 hours or so trying to get it dried out sufficiently. Finally, after making a really awful mess, I tossed it all. A loss after a fashion, but now another thing I know that won’t work.

Aside from that I’m just getting a bit sick of my own company. The cabin fever is driving me a bit out of my gourd. A “change of pace” consists of either switching video games (or software projects) or standing up from my computer, going to the couch, and turning on my laptop.

I can’t seem to walk out my apartment door without spending $40.

But the job search does seem to be picking up pace, which is good. I had a company want a programming test (which I took on Thursday evening) and a code sample. Nobody’s ever asked me for a code sample before. The only thing I could think of that stood on it’s own, rather than being a part of a larger system that wouldn’t make any sense was my C+ Unit Testing library. I’d been trying to work up the nerve to post it online as a source-available project and ended up using it for that purpose. I wrote up a readme on why it made sense to write one given that there are a few popular ones out there already (especially since there are some design decisions that look a little odd if you don’t know why they were done,) added some example code to exercise it, and shipped the whole schmegeggy off.

*gulp*

So who knows what will come of that. The cleanup task, hasty as it was (though thorough enough that I’m pleased with the result) does leave me entirely without excuses for posting the thing online. Google code? Sourceforge?

Hmm…

I think I know what’s next.