Gee whizzikers, where the heck have I been?

Hi folks.

I realize I've neglected this blog of late, and that it has been a rather significant period of time since I last posted here. Sorry about that. I've been kind of distracted. Lots of things have been going on, and I only wish that they were all good.

Back in September, I finally got a job in Las Vegas, writing and editing for a website called Unicahome.com. I was hired pretty much sight unseen by the owner, who recognized pretty quickly that I had some talent when it came to writing. When I asked them what my job title was, I was told to "make something up," as nobody had any clearly defined job titles. I chose "web content editor," which pretty much summed it up. I checked the prices of items for sale, wrote product descriptions, and wrote book reviews for the weekly newsletter when needed. I was finally starting to feel like I was being appreciated for my talents, which were being used in a professional setting for the first time in a very long time.

I was laid off from that job a little over a week ago.

Why? The economic downturn that has bitch-slapped America and the rest of the world, really. The website I worked for sells high-end designer furniture and household goods, lamps, and objets d'arte. We're talking really expensive stuff, like couches that sell for well over $4,000 that you can't figure out how to sit in. Or my personal favorite, the fall of the damned' lampshade, which depicts the souls of the damned falling into Hell. That sucker goes for over $51,000. So, the only people that can afford stuff like that are people that are loaded, and between the economic meltdown, the financial companies collapsing, and the pyramid scheme with that Maddoff guy (however you spell the name - it's late and I don't feel like looking it up), a lot of their customer base dried up.

So, my being effectively fired severed any ties my family and I might have had keeping us in Vegas. We're moving back to Santa Clarita, California to be closer to family and so that my wife can resume working in the main office of her employer.

If anyone knows of anyone hiring in the northern LA area, please let me know. I can use all the help I can get, frankly.

Take care,
~Rob