Android Blues

You know your'e getting olde when...

I'm trying to relearn something new that I dropped a year ago (after my class was over).
It's amazingly hard to find your way in the technology without a rosetta stone and a native guide.

And I do this stuff for a living?

Crap.

I had to uninstall and refresh all the tools, sources, and relink all of the add-ons so that the environment would just compile Android applications. Oh wait... it still doesn't work completely.

And I'm trying to score a QA gig in San Diego based on this?
WHO are you kidding?

Maybe tomorrow.  Back to it...

(Links may follow, if...)

Desperation

Desperation is a self-fulfilling prophesy.  Fear of failure affects performance and that creates a feedback loop.

First I have too many roommates.
Then I have too few; and the remaining one wasn't paying full fare.

So, he's gone.

I replace him with a new guy... and he's apparently unreliable. He's moving out already after less than a month in search of the BBD (bigger-better-deal), closer to his work by a couple miles.  I can't fault him, but his timing...

And I just got a temp roommate downstairs (who shows all sorts of signs of being flakey), and she's only here until the end of the month.  (Can't afford it and it's too far from downtown, plus she has 5 cats!)

And I just sent off emails to 5 prospective tenants, saying that I'm all booked until the end of the month.

Fabulous.

One of the basic *laws* of the universe: “A politician will write a law that will create more harm than good”. With the best of intentions…

1. Because of the tremendous amount of male-female spousal abuse in this country; we have a law in California that says if the couple (defined as ANYONE M-F having Sex or having had Sex in the past), then the male MUST leave.  It doesn’t matter if it’s his house or not, if she’s a owner or not.  (Because the cops would come, see “nothing” happening, then leave… and the husband/boyfriend/fucktoy would beat/kill the woman…)
2. So the cops had their discretionary choice legislated away; and by POLICY the LAPD cannot leave me in my home if a gal says (a) we’ve had sex, and (b) I’ve harmed her or she fears that I’d harm her. 
3. (I think that’s taking away the role that a live police officer is supposed to play…)
4. Because tenant rights have gone so extreme in thefavor of the tenant, (because of rampant abuse by landlords)… evicting a non-paying tenant is extremely difficult and time consuming. Even in your own home.
5. IT almost makes it not worth it…
6. I’m a firm believer in love, romance and the American dream… white picket fence, etcetera.  However, I’m currently suffering from the Nightmare version; (Elm street complete with Freddy), because it turns out that I can’t get or keep a job.  Some of that HAS to be my fault; but the rest is definitely the economy. 
7. I can get work as a consultant, but only in “emergency” terms, and only on stuff that I’m subject matter expert.  Nothing current or new, because no company will pay for that.  So, over time I have to reinvest in myself… and it’s hard to have street credibility doing commercial work in a area without someone PAYING you for the work…
8. Which leads me back to 1,2,3…  I need renters to help pay the mortgage; but (with very FEW exceptions) they CANNOT be someone I’ve dated or am dating…

 And... I might add, that takes all the fun out of the desperation of the current economy.

Yay.