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The recruiter advocating for me was able to push the envelope off my performance. They not only matched the max range of my offer, but because I would have to move for the company, they threw an extra 6% on top of it as well as additional benefits.
I start at the end of next month after my vacation. Woohoo!
- I love the metal models. Keep posting!
Brought into service in 1944. Provided crucial fire support in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Hit by a kamikaze zero causing superficial damage before shelling Japan. The dent is still there. Was the location where Gen. MacArthur accepted the surrender of the Japanese empire. Interesting story about that.. the American flag that 'flew' on the deck that day was a 31 star flag that Commodore Matthew Perry brought to land after the successful gunboat diplomacy tactic in the 1800's. After ww2 the Missouri was integral in the amphibious landing at Incheon. More recently, the Missouri was active in the gulf war, launching tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi forces and performing mine clearing operations in the gulf.
It's currently in a museum. Dent and all.
I finally regained cognizant thought two days later in the ICU. People told me they worried about my oxygen level at the time and that when I would come out of the seizures I was violent. They had to call the fire department to restrain me. I felt like my body had been wracked by a truck. The next few months I was not myself. My memory was about a 1/10th of what it used to be. I would forget things easily which is common for those that have had seizures originated from the temporal lobe. I would have drastic mood swings of anger, euphoria, etc. They put me on a new medication and since Mid December I've been seizure free.
Throughout it all though I came to realize some things. I was pretty damn lucky. My girlfriend was always there even when I would lash out at her for no good reason as she supported me back to health. My family was always there supporting me and telling me how much they cared while I felt so lost. Kind of ironic that when I went into seizures my old vehicle died completely. I found some small jobs in the meantime that worked me up back to my former health. I learned a lot about Uber drivers and their lives when I'd use them to go to work.
Recently, my girlfriends awesome parents gifted us with one of their older cars. A Red Civic Del Sol. I put the keys in my hand again after what had felt like ages. I started the vehicle and simply drove to the grocery store, to Wal Mart, etc. It was amazing the feeling simply driving a car gave me. I also decided on a complete career reset and got accepted into the Computer Science program. I say this all to say that life can throw curveballs. I don't take a simple breath for granted anymore. I'm so grateful to simply be able to walk, swim, or enjoy any of the sights life has to offer and to start a car and drive it a short distance.
I feel like life has in a circumspect way given me a second chance to live it to the fullest. I intend to.
Colleague: You still quitting smoking?
Me: Yea.
Colleague: When did you smoke last?
Me: I don't know. Three weeks maybe? Hold on, let me check. * gets phone out to check calendar. *
Randomly applied for a job at the coffee shop I always go to, and I got it! Done three shifts so far, and I'm really enjoying it.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
In slightly related news, it's that time of year - the Proms!
Been listening to Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics at work. Beethoven is a bit 'played' but the Brahms is nice. I always like a good piano and violin concerto(s).
Anyway, the most popular violin concertos besides the ones you mentioned are probably Tchaikovsky, Bruch 1, Mendelssohn. Other fun ones include Sibelius, Dvorak, Khachaturian, Bruch's Scottish Fantasy. Could probably think of some others, but I've only got a couple minutes.
As far as piano concertos, I'm partial to the Russians, so I'll put Rachmaninoff 2, 3, and Tchaikovsky out there. Beethoven 5 (Emperor) is the most famous, but it's Beethoven, so all of them are brilliant. Both Brahms piano concertos are heavy, but excellent. Ravel.
There, recommendations you didn't ask for.
Then to annoy my obnoxious office mate I play it without my headphones on, then switch to Slipknot, then 50 Cent. He was officially dead to me when a Sirius station played Nickelback before I could change it and he said 'finally some good music'. I almost beat him to death with my keyboard.
And maybe it was only because I was young at the time, but hearing the 1812 overture performed by a full orchestra changed my mind about what music could be like. Talk about sitting under a cascade of beautiful sound.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important