I agreed to be submitted for a position in North Carolina, near Charlotte, at a rate that will keep me afloat if the housing is what it looks like from Craigslist and the various rental sites.

3 times the recruiters have called to make sure I understand that this is North Carolina, not Northern California. I've explained that I have to pack the ( Read more... )

I just had a first screening call from a finance company in Western Mass, about an hour out from Framingham and West of Worcester, who are looking for an Senior IT Security Architect. It went really well, and we discussed what our mutual definitions of architecture, technical, and what level they really want. They also want someone who is able to ( Read more... )

Thought you might like to see where I'm living these days. Amusingly, it's about 6 blocks from Montgomery Air Field and about 4 blocks from where my friend Alan used to live (while Jen was in  college down here).  But you can see why I feel I'm in the Tropics!

http://pics.livejournal.com/patsmor/gallery/0008xxbs

Sorry that some of you will get this twice; I can't avoid some duplication on the lists... (It will probably also go pretty much as it is in LiveJournal, hence Facebook ( Read more... )

A friend of mine arrived and did a lot of loading of the Pod, and wow. He's gotten almost all my boxes and stuff in it. Of course, I've shipped 18 boxes of stuff to Glee's, and we have made many carload runs to Goodwill, but ...

I am at Blas and JoAnn's, being cosseted. I will go back tomorrow to finish packing and POD-ing. I need to get Bookcases, ( Read more... )

A glorious and thankful thing: They had snow in Cameron Park, and here's Bryan and Jack in the snow!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/video/video.php?v=1103672593835&ref=nfHe is so grown up ( Read more... )

I need to be out of the apartment by the evening of the 16th to avoid a visit from the Sheriff. After that, I'm heading up to see the kids in Cameron Park for a few days, then drive down to San Diego. Since I can't tow anything with the hybrid, I'm packing up a bunch of stuff to ship UPS ground to Glee ( Read more... )

This is the worst non-death-related note I've ever had to write, I think ( Read more... )

My current resume hasn't been getting terrific results, so today I virtually shredded it and rewrote it. I wrote a more detailed sheet on my project & security experience for the folks at MIT, and as they liked it a lot (and said that it was nice to have more detail than my "summary" resume gave them, I based the new version on that. Then I went ( Read more... )

(Not Michael One-Glove...)

Those of you who have been privy to my various humiliating wanderings getting lost everywhere will probably not want to be drinking liquids while you read this....

( and on to the travels... )