Life in low gear

I got an email from Sally today. First, I scratched my head ...wondering "who the hell is sally?!". Upon opening the mail, I realized who Sally is. She's just one more from an endless list of people to whom I applied for work, and basically the message said :
Thank you for your application for the position of *** with the RNA.

We have received an enormous response to our advertisement.

Unfortunately your application was unsuccessful at this time.

Aye ... life in low gear ... sending cv's and getting "thanks but no thanks".
Anyways, I was walking down the street today, towards the Internet cafe, and I guessed I could use a coffee too. While waiting for the light to turn green on the crossroad, the rain hit again. Being smart and careful, I took an umbrella with me, so I told to myself (with an ausy accent) "no worries mate", and opened it, enjoying the view of the rain falling on the cars, breathing in the smell, and thanking the weather for it was warmish, and not cold as it would be in the rain back home.
Once the light turned green, I started crossing, humming a song, and watched a short balding person with glasses, who must have been on a coffee break from work (since he was dressed in a rather formal attire, and was holding a coffee cup in his hands) run across the road in the other direction. Now, the funny part was his face. He was having the most amusing face, even though it would be hard to explain. His brows were contracted, and his lips were tight, while he dashed at what should be (for him) top speed across the road. Now, since he's traveling faster, he should keep his head dryer, since the total amount of time under the rain, is shorter. But, since he's moving on the horizontal plane faster, he gathers rain which wouldn't hit him otherwise. So, is it worth the effort of trying to outrun the rain?. At this point, I figured I'll leave the complex mathematical calculation for after the coffee, and went on my way without giving it much more thought.
The other day I was fooling around with some features of a program, and realized how much data you can obtain, and how much damage you can do, and I don't know why I tell you this, since it has nothing to do with the post. I was speaking about life in low gear. Yes. Basically, it's the same "the neighbor's grass is greener" syndrome. When you work full time and have no time, all you want is some time off, so you can do nothing but chill out. When you have nothing to do, but chill out, you would wish you had a job, so you can do something useful. Now, maybe being rich it won't be the same, since you won't have to worry about money, but being poor as your humble servant, it does come into consideration.
Which reminded me, work ... I'm not sure work as it is is what I wanna do. The clock punching might help in giving an income, but it's definitely not the thing that will make you rich. Having enough spare time, I ponder about this, but so far, with no ground shaking conclusions. Once I'll reach them, I might update, but then, you never know who will steal them, right? :) .
I think that's about enough for today. Tonight, some dancing. Before I go there were some things I wanted to find on the net, but I keep forgetting what they were, since I'm browsing and following links, and finding new things, and only when I'm out and not in front of the comp, I realize I forgot to check this and that.
So, with this wishful thinking, I'll leave you for today.