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After a little over four years of use (and six years after it went on the market), my original mobile phone had started giving crackling feedback and the battery was dying and no longer available, so I finally gave in and bought a new one. I had planned on buying the most basic $20 model again, but it had almost unusable buttons and was reported to have poor sound, so I shelled out an extra $10 for a Motorola "Renew." They call it Renew because the body and the box it came in were made from recycled materials (the box was still almost impossible to open), and apparently the extra $10 went into the shadow economy of carbon credits. I guess I did my part for the week to fuel a former vice-president's private jet. The phone works more or less like a phone should, so I'm happy with it.

I never heard back from Portland General Electric after the interview, which they told me meant I wasn't chosen for the second round of interviews. I got a call back last week on an application to a staffing agency for a temporary manufacturing engineer. It would have been work related to the test stand designing I did. He called the day after I sent a resume and cover letter and said they might be ready to interview as early as the next day. Unfortunately, that didn't pan out and he let me know this week that they'd filled the position internally. I have to say that he was far better to deal with than the staffing agencies I've dealt with for applications to Intel positions. Of course, all he had to do to achieve that distinction was speak English and remember what company he was hiring for.

Sarah's gingerbread party was on Saturday, which was a blast, as always. Don't forget to vote if you haven't. If we're lucky, Nick will even vote this year so the results can be declared official. He still hasn't voted on last year's houses.