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more exam comedy Weekends almost always seem to be hard on the journal and this last one was no exception. Most of this one was spent wavering between studying and doing things instead of studying. Yes, I decided to take the exam again and I have come to the conclusion that the gods are laughing at me. My score was definitely higher than it was last Monday. In fact I should have passed with my new and improved score, but I didn't. A shout of why is heard from the crowd. For some unknown reason they raised the passing grade from what it was a week ago. Here are the exact numbers: Last Monday a score of 822 was a passing grade - my grade was 784. This Monday a score of 849 was a passing grade - my grade was 827. Sadly if I would have gotten the higher score last week, I would have passed the exam and been done with it. Now, however, I have to take it yet again since the grading scale changed. No one told me that this was going to happen and I hope that it doesn't change on me next time. At this rate I might need a perfect score to pass when other people passed with only knowing eighty percent of the information. The questions were different since it is a computer based exam, but it was still for the same certification. I don't understand and once again I can't tell anyone at work what happened. When I walked out of the building after the exam, I was muttering and laughing to myself like the village idiot. I couldn't believe what had just happened to me. It was so unreal. Maybe I was being punished for making fun of computer geeks at some point in my life. I repent. I, too, want to be a geek. Please, please let me be a computer geek. I drove away listening to Travis sing "why does it always rain on me" and I understood what they meant. Being Charlie Brown isn't that much fun. ... Now if anyone looks at those numbers that I listed above, they can see that I didn't "fail" the exam by a wide margin. Actually I was so close both times that it isn't funny. Oh, I think that I should also mention that the uppermost score is 1000 and according to the documentation the lowest score possible is a 300. Without a doubt, the exam has become my quest, my holy grail. I must succeed. I won't be happy until I do. ... My sudden interest in advancing my career really isn't that unexpected. Somewhere in the past few months I've finally figured out that I can do better than I have in life and it's certainly time for me to move on to somewhere else. My talking with Ann has also helped. Before she came into the picture most of the people in the department were fairly content to be there. I think that I've said it before, but I'll say it again. To me people in the information technology field seem to fall into two categories. Either they are young hip twenty-somethings who live and breathe computers or they're forty-something men with guts who have been in the industry for twenty some years. Okay, that was a gross generalization, but I almost always seem to be in the minority when it comes to age at my job. There has to be thirty-something people at other companies. ... About two weeks ago I discovered that I get MTV2 on my television. Since I don't have cable, this was a pleasant surprise. The repetition might still be there, but it also introduced me to some new music that I desperately needed. Milwaukee is not known for its radio stations and I can only take so much classic rock. Now through the magic of MTV2 I've come to appreciate Coldplay, Nelly Fortado, David Gray and the Josh Joplin Group. That Moby and Gwen Stefani song Southside, isn't too bad either. Then there is the ever adorable Jancee Dunn, who as far as I can tell is the new version of Kennedy minus the overly dry wit. Jancee seems more human to me than Kennedy ever did. ... The space shuttle crew performed the ninety-ninth space walk today. Amazing. While I complain about the minor troubles in my life, there are people walking in space hundreds of miles above the earth. I wonder if it's too late for me to become an astronaut. ... On Sunday I told Ann that I loved her. I did. I really did. Okay, there was some prompting on her part, but I said it in front of her and another person. She had brought me some breakfast and said that that was the only way that she could bribe me to stay and talk with her. Then she went on to say that the only way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Little does she know that she doesn't need to bring me food to make me stay.
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