Snow on the Santa Catalina Mountians looking north from a park near my place 
January in Tucson
Garner Canyon Off-Highway Vehilce area
went for a 3-1/2 solo mountain bike ride in January
Gardner Canyon is south of Tucson about an hour
Remember, think BABEL….. The entry below is from an update emailed to a friend, January 15th, which was, at the time, about my recent move (Jan 5th) to Tucson from Gilbert (near Phoenix, where most of my family lives)….
Settled into my rental-a-room in a house in Tucson. It is working out quite well; the lady I am renting from is really accommodating and is making my stay here pleasant one. As pleasant as it can be moving from a nice sized 2-bedroom apartment, by myself, to a room with a small bathroom attached…. But, I am very centrally located near the corner of Campbell and Grant just a mile north of the U of A campus.
Not working yet, but had three interviews last week and have one third interview tomorrow, which will more than likely lead to an offer as a "coach"/supervisor with a telemarketing company that takes inbound customer support calls for Verizon and at the same time up sells other Verizon products. Thinking that this will be a temporary to get some money coming in until I can get a more substantial job with a title company as a sales rep. I have to make some calls tomorrow morning to two different title insurance companies about setting up second interviews, one of which looks like the second interview will include an offer to be a commercial title rep for them, but it is the other company, needing a residential title rep, that will probably take two more interviews before I see an offer, that I am most interested in at this point. More on that later!
Really cool thing happened with the whole job hunt thing, was making my first stop at a title company to start spreading my resumes around, and to find out who I should talk to at each company regarding employment, the first place I stopped was a company that was out of biz, but there was a title rep from another company there in the courtyard of the building, talking on his cell phone. I decided to wait till he was done to ask him what happened to that title company, forgot to say, he was the one that told me they were out of biz. So, told him my whole deal and he is like, here, lemmie give you all the names and numbers (some cell numbers) for all the people who do the hiring for title companies in town. Dude, talk about God setting me up! So, I leave that guy, after thanking him profusely, and head on to my next stop, with contact name in hand.... and I start having trouble with bronco, I had thought earlier that I needed a new battery, cause it was acting up the day before, so I head directly over to Checker to get a battery but don’t make it, it dies, so rather than get mad, I start calling all the people that title rep gave me, about jobs....... Let the truck cool down, get it started again, head to the checker to get the battery...... well, within in an hour and a half, two people have called me back and I have two interviews setup for the next two days, and within 3 hours I have a total of 3 interviews.... pretty cool huh, thanks God. This whole time, I was thinking that with the bronco acting up that I wouldn’t be able to get around to find a job, and didn’t need to after all, all I needed to do just came to me!
Have been to a few churches, thought I had found one and when I went the second time I felt like it was a bit cheesy, so I am not so sure now, still a few more to check out, more later.
Took a great 5 mile hike last night, started at about 4:45 pm, hiked for a hour, about 2.5 miles into Ventana Canyon Park, before turning around, at this point in the dark and hiking out of this totally, dark canyon for another hour and 10 mins, a bit slower going in the dark with my petzel headlamp. I must admit I thought a couple of times, gosh, I hope there are no cougars up here to eat me! But alas, there were none, good thing, cause it would have been totally pissed if one had eaten me, or even bit me!
Oh, and the bronco was having some probs again last week until I found I had a alternator prob and had a new one installed.... all’s good now.
Have no radio, other than the truck and no TV, have been renting movies and watching them on the computer for the last three night, pretty cool.....life is good
Glad I moved here, really enjoying it.
Settled into my rental-a-room in a house in Tucson. It is working out quite well; the lady I am renting from is really accommodating and is making my stay here pleasant one. As pleasant as it can be moving from a nice sized 2-bedroom apartment, by myself, to a room with a small bathroom attached…. But, I am very centrally located near the corner of Campbell and Grant just a mile north of the U of A campus.
Not working yet, but had three interviews last week and have one third interview tomorrow, which will more than likely lead to an offer as a "coach"/supervisor with a telemarketing company that takes inbound customer support calls for Verizon and at the same time up sells other Verizon products. Thinking that this will be a temporary to get some money coming in until I can get a more substantial job with a title company as a sales rep. I have to make some calls tomorrow morning to two different title insurance companies about setting up second interviews, one of which looks like the second interview will include an offer to be a commercial title rep for them, but it is the other company, needing a residential title rep, that will probably take two more interviews before I see an offer, that I am most interested in at this point. More on that later!
Really cool thing happened with the whole job hunt thing, was making my first stop at a title company to start spreading my resumes around, and to find out who I should talk to at each company regarding employment, the first place I stopped was a company that was out of biz, but there was a title rep from another company there in the courtyard of the building, talking on his cell phone. I decided to wait till he was done to ask him what happened to that title company, forgot to say, he was the one that told me they were out of biz. So, told him my whole deal and he is like, here, lemmie give you all the names and numbers (some cell numbers) for all the people who do the hiring for title companies in town. Dude, talk about God setting me up! So, I leave that guy, after thanking him profusely, and head on to my next stop, with contact name in hand.... and I start having trouble with bronco, I had thought earlier that I needed a new battery, cause it was acting up the day before, so I head directly over to Checker to get a battery but don’t make it, it dies, so rather than get mad, I start calling all the people that title rep gave me, about jobs....... Let the truck cool down, get it started again, head to the checker to get the battery...... well, within in an hour and a half, two people have called me back and I have two interviews setup for the next two days, and within 3 hours I have a total of 3 interviews.... pretty cool huh, thanks God. This whole time, I was thinking that with the bronco acting up that I wouldn’t be able to get around to find a job, and didn’t need to after all, all I needed to do just came to me!
Have been to a few churches, thought I had found one and when I went the second time I felt like it was a bit cheesy, so I am not so sure now, still a few more to check out, more later.
Took a great 5 mile hike last night, started at about 4:45 pm, hiked for a hour, about 2.5 miles into Ventana Canyon Park, before turning around, at this point in the dark and hiking out of this totally, dark canyon for another hour and 10 mins, a bit slower going in the dark with my petzel headlamp. I must admit I thought a couple of times, gosh, I hope there are no cougars up here to eat me! But alas, there were none, good thing, cause it would have been totally pissed if one had eaten me, or even bit me!
Oh, and the bronco was having some probs again last week until I found I had a alternator prob and had a new one installed.... all’s good now.
Have no radio, other than the truck and no TV, have been renting movies and watching them on the computer for the last three night, pretty cool.....life is good
Glad I moved here, really enjoying it.
