So I went in this morning to interview for an office manager position with a non-profit organization called the California Housing Partnership Corporation, which helps other non-profit organizations make affordable, low-income housing available.

While they appear not to be interested in me for full-time office manager skills (although that is apparently still being decided), they hired me immediately as sort of a contract worker for technical support. They want a dependable, dedicated technical support person and were very interested in my IT background. At the end of the interview, they asked if I could start immediately ... as in, would you like to see what IT problems we need to be fixed, and what can you do about it right now? So, instead of being back home at 3:30 PM PST, I'm still at CHPC's office in downtown San Francisco, updating an old iBook and an old eMac to Mac OS 10.4. Later today, I'm going to the Apple Store near Union Square to get a battery for a Titanium PowerBook. They've essentially told me that I just have to submit an invoice to them for the hours I work, and I'll get paid. They threw out $25 an hour as an hourly wage. Of course, I'm still looking for full-time work. But they'll certainly let me take time off around Christmas. My schedule is pretty flexible.

This, however, was the strangest interview I've ever been to; I walk in, and they put me to work immediately! And I got free lunch out of it.

More updates later. The Comcast guy is coming tomorrow to activate us for the Internet, so hopefully once I have an Internet connection I'll be able to put up more information, as well as pictures from Ed's Whirlwind Tour of the West.

Oh, and to Elizabeth and Brian: I'll get your accounts fixed.