Today was marked by two meals out. Lunch was with MSJ (My friend from the imaging firm I once worked for) and Dinner was with Vicki #1. I'm lucky I had extra money to spend, as I have another lunch scheduled for tomorrow.
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MSJ and I scheduled today's lunch, so that I could review and comment on her resume. For the most part, it is a good representation of her career, and had few areas needed changing. The first was was to change her phrasing into
Action → Result
from
Result → Action
This was the easiest thing to do. But then, we had to figure what could safely be pruned from her resume without significant loss of demonstrated skill sets. And this forced us to leave in a job or two which she'd like to skip over, and forward fill some dates from self employment to allow her to omit an unwanted job. Additionally, we changed a reference of a subsidiary to that of a corporate parent, to make her employment appear as she worked for fewer organizations.
Hopefully, the edits I expect that she'll be making will help her get a new job. We've scheduled another lunch to review her edits.
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Vicki called just as I was going to spend a little time at Woodbury Commons (outlet mall) to do some browsing. Although the trip to the mall was a waste of time and car mileage, I was able to chat with Vicki for a while and schedule dinner for the evening.
While at the outlet mall, I found nothing interesting to buy. Everything was either overpriced status brands, or clothing which would not fit me. As I was walking back to my car, the front part of my right shoe separated from its base. Since these were cheap shoes, I decided to trash them when I got home instead of fixing the sole with glue. To kill a little more time, I decided to write up meeting minutes for last night's co-op board meeting, and rest a little before going to the diner to meet Vicki.
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We met at the local diner, and both of us had the chicken. She had grilled chicken breasts, while I had the roast. Both were good. And we grumbled about the short term mentality of the American public, and how America's greatest snake oil salesman will likely hurt people like us. It'll take a while for our anger to burn itself out. But then, can you blame us given the radical changes he promises. To make things worse, he will likely never be punished for the crimes he committed, as his party refuses to discipline him.
We left the diner around 8:45 pm. From there, I took a little drive (adding more needless mileage to my car), and saw how Route 9A was being diverted in both directions onto other roads. Needless to say, I took different side roads to get back home for the night.
PS: One thing Vicki noted: When I'm with her, I defer to an alpha as a cisgender female tends to do. When RQS is around, she defers to me in a similar way - regardless of my gender presentation.
