hmmm

Well, Aaron had his phone conference/initial interview with the folks at the internet company in Minneapolis. He's not sure how the meeting went, and thinks it could have gone better. There were just some things that he didn't know, and isn't feeling super confident about that. After the meeting, the owner of the company said that he'd get back to Aaron after making a decision. We're not sure how long that's going to be, so both of us are just kind of waiting on pins and needles. It sucks.

On Tuesday, we had dinner with Aaron's folks for his belated birthday party, since he and I both had to work on his birthday. Then on Wednesday, Aaron and I hung out with our friends Bryce and Liz, who both work at the same casino as me, did some drinking and gambling, and that was a good time. I won $92 on a three card poker hand with a straight flush. Which was good, because I was down to my last $6 of the evening, and I won it all back, and then some. Whew! I was sweating bullets for a while!

Then yesterday, we drove to Gillette to have dinner with my folks because we hadn't been out there in about a month. And with the possibility of moving so soon, we wanted to go see them.

After all the frustrations that have been going on at work, I've been quite frustrated with the whole thing. I never did hear back from the casino where I dropped off an application to deal cards, and never contacted them back, either, because when I picked up the application, Aaron hadn't made contact with the company in Minneapolis yet. But by the time they were supposed to call me back came around, he'd sent in his resume to them, and I didn't want to pursue it, in case we ended up having to move in the next month.

My boss at work must have caught wind of me saying that even if we don't get to move to Minneapolis, I'm quitting anyway. After I went into work on Tuesday to talk to him about something, right before I left he said, "I really don't want you to quit, I want you to stay here." I wouldn't mind staying there, really, as long as I was much better compensated for my troubles. "I have big plans for you when we do the expansion (of the building)." Well, that's not going to be for another couple of years. They were supposed to break ground this summer, and that never happened. My year-evaluation is coming up this week or next week, and I want to get a GOOD raise. Not a $.20 raise like last year. That was BS. I want to be making over $11/hour, or I'm gone. Because I can make more money, and put up with less crap dealing cards at any other casino than I can at this place.