Night-time, Day One. About Midnight on my car clock, I was getting so tired I had no idea where I was going to be able to stop and stay. And, since the gas mileage on a heavily loaded Civic Hybrid driving into the wind is rather less than usual, I was filling the tank more often than usual. Yes, the gas prices were $.50 to $.75 cents less than in ( Read more... )

It's sleeting. Did the recruiter order this for me?

(from my blackberry

Thursday turned out to be Day Zero. Finished Madly Packing, but the weather report for I=8 in the Barry Goldwater Range was for ice and high winds. No Thank you. I finished arranging boxes in Glee's garage so they were not quite so much a mess and got a good night's sleep. Moved my arrival date in Austin back to Sunday (called the hotel; no issues ( Read more... )

Final cuts on what goes in the car and what doesn't, and putting the critical stuff in the car NOW. As Glee reminded me, and both both cnewsonsmith and ingridthefair said on the phone yesterday, remember what I haven't used in a year and what I won't need in the next 3 months unless I get a permanent gig ( Read more... )

I accepted a job today in Austin, Texas. It's a short-term contract, 3 months, and I'm continuing to look for something permanent beyond that, but I think it will be a good position. I'll be working with the IT Audit group for the Texas Dept of Health and Human Services ( Read more... )

I babysat for Jen and Bryan tonight, as Thursday was Bryan's birthday and they were going to a party tonight. I didn't quite realize that they would be out until 4. Jack usually wakes up about 2:30 and wanders in to their bed. He did it tonight, and had a fit that they weren't there. I finally convinced him that he could come sit on their bed, even ( Read more... )

I am going to Boston next week for my 30th college reunion. Boy, am I getting old. I see it as mostly a networking event, since a lot of the companies with jobs listed are in the area and a lot of my fellow alumni work there. Bless Southwest for a flight voucher I had to use before July 31, and ( Read more... )

The job hunt is ... elusive. I post resumes, apply for jobs, and so far, no nibbles since I got here. Several of the ones in February have written that they are waiting until 3rd quarter to hire, or have unfunded all positions, or whatever. I've done a flood of work this week on sending out resumes -- there are lots of postings out there, but there ( Read more... )

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... )

I'm departing this afternoon from cvirtue & metageek and their children's home in Chelmsford, Ma, and flying back to the West Coast. With the time change as well as Jet lag I will no doubt be fuzzier than usual when I arrive back in SFO. Thank goodness ingridthefair is picking me up from the airport, as I suspect I'd prefer to just lay down on a bench and sleep when I arrive ( Read more... )