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Happy 2019!
Jan. 4th, 2019 09:44 pmHi everyone. Entry title says it all. Happy New Year. 2019 promises to be yet another good one for me, and perhaps even better than previous years. For one thing, I will have had my iPhone for a year as of the end of March. Though I haven't yet mastered everything, I think I'm well on my way. But enough about my iPhone for now at least. I'll just leave it at this: I'm happy to have it.
I keep telling other people that I'm going to get another job one of these days, and I'm going to try again this year. In a previous entry I briefly mentioned quitting my most recent job. I did so mainly due to the fact that I wasn't being given enough responsibilities. Given the mission of this organization, I think that's a powerful statement. But I felt and still feel that despite their claim to fame, they aren't all-inclusive. To be honest, I don't think they're trying that hard. In the beginning and after that, yes they did but not now. For those unaware, Illinois has been ranked very low in terms of services for those of us who happen to have disabilities. What's even worse is that very little if anything at all has been done to remedy this situation. But that's why Center for Independent Futures was founded, right? I happen to know some people who want me to go through the vocational rehabilitation agency to get a job, but I don't want to do that and I've told these people. After all, there are ways of obtaining employment without involving joke/rehab. I know this for a fact because that's how I obtained all my previous jobs. Yes indeed, joke/rehab did not help me get any of these jobs. I received a few calls from them when I was volunteering at a now-defunct nonprofit organization, but I'd rather not discuss that here. Suffice it to say, those calls increased to the point of harassment. Not good. The staff ended up putting me on their payroll after awhile, but those calls had little if anything to do with their decision. Hint hint: I was grandfathered into the organization.
After thinking things over a bit, I've arrived at the decision to help a neighbor out with launching his cooking business. I'm going to try my hand at creating a website for him, and I think I have at most 3 options there. But the website will probably not be launched for awhile yet.
So that's a sneak preview of the year ahead for yours truly. Finally, I'd like to leave y'all with something by one of my favorite singer/parodists of all time. I'm speaking of course about the one and only Weird-Al Yankovic. I thought this would be the perfect ending, after I went across the hall to watch a special on TV about one of the incidents that Mr. Yankovic sings about in this parody. Enjoy.
http://povidi.com/YourTube/index.py?playVid=1;id=dU95v23MQ4c .
I keep telling other people that I'm going to get another job one of these days, and I'm going to try again this year. In a previous entry I briefly mentioned quitting my most recent job. I did so mainly due to the fact that I wasn't being given enough responsibilities. Given the mission of this organization, I think that's a powerful statement. But I felt and still feel that despite their claim to fame, they aren't all-inclusive. To be honest, I don't think they're trying that hard. In the beginning and after that, yes they did but not now. For those unaware, Illinois has been ranked very low in terms of services for those of us who happen to have disabilities. What's even worse is that very little if anything at all has been done to remedy this situation. But that's why Center for Independent Futures was founded, right? I happen to know some people who want me to go through the vocational rehabilitation agency to get a job, but I don't want to do that and I've told these people. After all, there are ways of obtaining employment without involving joke/rehab. I know this for a fact because that's how I obtained all my previous jobs. Yes indeed, joke/rehab did not help me get any of these jobs. I received a few calls from them when I was volunteering at a now-defunct nonprofit organization, but I'd rather not discuss that here. Suffice it to say, those calls increased to the point of harassment. Not good. The staff ended up putting me on their payroll after awhile, but those calls had little if anything to do with their decision. Hint hint: I was grandfathered into the organization.
After thinking things over a bit, I've arrived at the decision to help a neighbor out with launching his cooking business. I'm going to try my hand at creating a website for him, and I think I have at most 3 options there. But the website will probably not be launched for awhile yet.
So that's a sneak preview of the year ahead for yours truly. Finally, I'd like to leave y'all with something by one of my favorite singer/parodists of all time. I'm speaking of course about the one and only Weird-Al Yankovic. I thought this would be the perfect ending, after I went across the hall to watch a special on TV about one of the incidents that Mr. Yankovic sings about in this parody. Enjoy.
http://povidi.com/YourTube/index.py?playVid=1;id=dU95v23MQ4c .
