The blog of Luther M. Siler, teacher, author and local curmudgeon
…I’m given to understand that I broke the rules on this little game at least once by including a picture of my son, so it’s possible that the Meme Police will be filing charges of some sort. I think I’ll survive. At any rate, I’ve been posting these on Instagram and Twitter and I figured I’d archive them here:
I really did have a crazy productive day– look at the progress bar for Tales over there!– but the internet has been an unreconstructed horrorshow since I got home from dinner so it’s probably time to go to bed and read. 
This particular blog hasn’t been active for that long, but WordPress just notified me that I registered with the site ten years ago today.
The following results were returned– in fact, were the first seven results– by a search on Indeed.com that specifically excluded the words “nanny” and “babysitter” and specified within 25 miles of my house:
Two jobs in New York and only one job that doesn’t use one of the words the search was supposed to eliminate. Nice job, Indeed.com! Perhaps you could use someone skilled with coding to rework how your search functionality does its job?
(I will never not be mystified about how I can do a search for a thing on a site, and get results that don’t use the words I searched for before I get results that do.)
In other news, fiction is actually being produced right now. It has been a long time since that was true. But yes! I am working on a Benevolence Archives story in between pointless job searches.
…I am starting to think that listing my resume on CareerBuilder.com was perhaps not the brightest decision I ever made. This showed up in my mailbox today; the only alterations I have made are the italics and to change my real name to Luther’s:
Respected Luther M. Siler,
Our Company New-W. would like to congratulate you on your selection for the position of Logistics Supervisor. New-W. is a reputed company dealing in logistics of delivery of goods purchased from USA & Canada online retailers to customers all over the Globe. Our company gives you the perfect opportunity to get experience in the field of logistics with field work and provides the best of career growth to hardworking candidates
To confirm your acceptance, please send the following to us:
• Your Name & Surname
• Your Cell NumberAs a logistics supervisor you duties will include the following
• Receipt and dispatch of packages to clients Worldwide
• Coordinate the logistics of delivery process with other members of the team
• Control to admin panel on daily basisSALARY & PERKS
For the 1st month which probationary, you salary will be in the range of 2400-3500$. After successful completion of this period, you will be eligible to receive bonuses depending on your performance.
We look forward for a fruitful association with you.Sincerely,
Alfreda Hall
New-W. Company
I note also that the return email does not appear to be affiliated with “New-W. Company,” which somehow fails to surprise me.
Jobhunting!
Okay.
The boy’s at school, for the first time in two weeks. My wife is in Boston. I actually have the day to myself to accomplish my own aims for the first time in a while. I have, so far today, managed to get to the pharmacy and pick up some medication. That’s actually bragging! That counts as a thing!
I have at least 10,000 other things to do, though, especially when we consider that I potentially have jury duty tomorrow, and who knows how long that could last. Trials sometimes take a long time, right? This means that there are a number of things that I really ought to do my damnedest to get done today since who knows if I’ll be able to get them done during the day at any other point this week.
Then there’s that whole “write fiction” thing I used to do.
And I haven’t been to the pool in two weeks, because of the aforementioned boy’s Spring Break. I maybe ought to start doing that again soon.
So naturally I’ve spent the morning glassily staring off into space, idly websurfing, and trying to talk myself out of a barnburning politics post that probably is better put off until after New York votes on the 19th.
I thought about trying to see if anyone had streamed a playthrough of Dark Souls III, which might prevent me from having to buy it and then not playing it. That’s what has counted as ambition so far today.
Good morning, Internet.
I am in a technology rabbit hole involving cloud syncing, overcomplicated, computer-generated passwords, and Google nonsense. Also my email address may be changing. Also I may be in a foul mood for the remainder of the day. Also technology is stupid, especially technology that doesn’t cooperate by, say, syncing across computers like it’s supposed to.
Also I have an eye appointment this afternoon and am expecting to spend a chunk of the afternoon blind.
I’ll let y’all know when I come up for air, but hang a “HERE BE MONSTERS” sign on the blog for a bit.
Today has featured an auto repair shop declining work on a car because it would be too expensive and complicated, damn near falling asleep while driving my kid to school (unrelated to the car work! I swear!) because apparently none of last night’s sleep took, lost toddler shoes, verbose teacherly apologies, an entire pot of coffee, a couple of hours of resultant heart palpitations, beta reading, utter ridiculousness on Twitter, preparations for a toddler (not mine) birthday party, taquitos, and somehow dragging the beaten and lifeless carcass of the Sunlight manuscript across the 40,000 word mark.
Guess which part was my favorite.
I am exhausted. I’d be happy that it’s the weekend, but 1) this weekend is going to be busy as hell, and 2) I’m unemployed at the moment so it’s not like weekends are any different from any other day.
In other words, have a couple of music videos, because I am done for the day.
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