We moan and groan and hit the ground

So after a couple-week dry spell of nothing but waiting for employers to live up to their claim they'd get back to me with a yes-or-no, I got a couple interviews this week. One with a company from India; another, with a bank.. I admit being vague about both of them, as they were things arranged through recruiters who found me on LinkedIn and liked what they saw and knew people who needed a decision fast. So I didn't get much briefing about what to expect --- one of the recruiters sent me an e-mail with their best guess at questions one hour before my interview --- but, that at least didn't let me build expectations up too much.

Well, both got back to me by the end of the week, with rejections. At some point I had some interest from a company doing doing some kind of community solar development project and I think they rejected me before scheduling an interview. And I am once again declaring that everyone who claims this is in any way a 'hot' job market is a filthy liar. Nobody wants to hire anymore, and nobody is interested in hiring, and nobody is ever going to hire me, and my best strategy right now is to work out a scratch-off lottery scam with a Quality Dairy employee.

I have another interview, a dreaded first-round one, Monday with a different bank yet and I guess I'll go but it's hard to see why bother.

Here's a bunch of falling water for you.

Looking at the American Falls here. I love that tiny little stream to the far left of all this. Also that I got the seagull in pretty good focus because that makes the picture something. Anyway, please enjoy this album cover.

And here's a glimpse of the Horseshoe Falls, and the great misty cavern that's behind the falls. I was fascinated by this since I've seen 'behind the waterfall' as a setting for all sorts of mostly dumb cartoony adventures needing a hiding place and this was the first time I saw a falls that had a worthwhile place behind them.

Turned my head back to the American Falls. This time that little rivulet to the side gets the focus and I really like that little streak of reflected light where it hits the rocks below.

One of the many rainbows we'd see that afternoon, this time not competing with any boats.

And here's a double rainbow!

More with the double rainbow, which I always love seeing and photographing when I can.

Trivia: Julius Caesar Stein incorporated the Music Corporation of America in 1924. By the mid-1930s around nine-tenths of dance bands in the country were under exclusive MCA contracts. Source: With Amusement For All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby.

Currently Reading: Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age, Lori Garver.