Job Fair

Well, I know its been a while since my last post.  It has been pretty hectic over here at the Anchorage Job fair.  We flew into Anchorage Tuesday evening.  Erin, Josh, and my self went out to the brewhouse for dinner after stopping by the mall to get my hair cut.  Erin took off the next morning for Valdez.  She was a little delayed leaving ANC because the weather in Valdez was a little iffy.  She made it in just a little late.

We spent the day getting things ready, and and doing the pre-conference sign in stuff with people that had already arrived.  It was a pretty long day.  After we closed up shop for the day, John, Josh, and myself went out to dinner at club paris.  Its a really nice restaurant here in town.  I got a tasty burger there, it was fun hanging out and talking.

Today the job fair really got underway.  I ran the registering booth for most of the morning with the occasional interruption to get a video conference going so a district could interview a possible hire.  We had a bit of a melt down in VTC land during the day.  The whole system started t crash.  It took a while to get it back up and functioning, but Tom over at GCI does a tremendous job.  He was as usual, able to rectify the situation.  So everything is happy in VTC land again.

We did have one interview when the video conferencing system was in use that I set up using iChat AV.  We were only able to do a one way video chat because the principal we were connecting to didn’t have an iSight camera, and the video camera he was trying to use in its place didn’t have a firewire cable that came with it.  So he was able to see her, but she wasn’t able to see him.  I was using my fancy shmancy MacBook Pro, which all of you know has a built in iSight camera.  So that was cool.

My dad flew into ANC this evening to attend a Telephone board meeting.  So we got to hang out today.  We had some drinks at fletchers, which is a restaurant bar in the captain cook hotel.  After visiting with people that were over for the job fair, we headed out the the brewhouse for dinner.  It was dad, Jim Hickerson, John Concilus, Chick Beckley, and myself.  We had a good dinner, and then headed back to the hotel. Dad and I hung out some more, and now its time to hit the sack.