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Well, I have exaughsted Craigslist, Monster, and any other job finding tools I could get my hands on. I think I’m going to settle on interviewing for a Barista position at Starbucks. I was trying to avoid returning, but I feel that after reasoning it all out it will fit my schedule the best. I loved working there before, and the only reason I left was because my previous job was booming. Sadly they moved their base of operations to Colorado to cut costs. Hopefully having worked at Starbucks before will give me an edge over the other applicants. I remember almost all of the drinks, plus having my discount again would mean I could have hot chocolate more often :). They have hiring fairs once a week now it sounds like. I will have to wait for a week from Monday because the time coincides with my Math class. Normally I’d just skip the class, but this Monday is midterms so that doesn’t seem like a great idea. I’m hoping I’ll get this one. It would really cheer me up. The ticket last night was a big blow, and not being able to buy new toys and experiment with programs has slowly eaten away at me. I used to be a very happy person, and yet for the last year or so that happieness has been drying up. Perhaps going back to my roots of Barista-dum will re-ignite that happieness within me.

On another good note Israel helped me with my PHP script not turning on my lights last night. The culprit turned out to be permissions based as I had expected. It turned out I forgot to add rights for the www-data user to the /dev/ttyS0 serial port device. That is working perfectly now and today I hope to write a small iPhone interface to control both my fan and my lamp. I’ll post screen shots of my progress later today.