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Sooooooo. For those following along on Facebook, you know I got sick in Antwerp. It was bad. I had the shits, I was afraid the tapwater might be contributing to the problem, and everything is closed on Sunday so I couldn't buy more bottled once I drank through what was in my room. I have never been so sick that Imodium didn't slow things down before. My pants fell off of me when I was getting dressed the last morning in Paris. (It's all back now.) I've been feeling up and down since then. I was home for 48 hours, which was long enough to do my laundry, repack my suitcase, and get caught up on the bills and random errands I needed to do before we left for Thanksgiving in LA. It's hard to separate the way I feel from being ill and being jetlagged. But now I've been back in my time zone for a week, and as of yesterday I'm back to my usual food, so I'm hoping that will help get me back together soon.
Thanksgiving was better than I expected. I love my extended family, but they do drive me insane sometimes. They really laid off some of the third rail topics this year and we had a good time. I think it's also easier now that there are four kids under 10 (cousin Brian has 3 and Kristin has 1) so the attention gets more focused on them, and they are well-behaved, smart, funny kids across the board. Stopped in for poker night at El Rancho Destructo on Friday night and got to see a bunch of folks and meet a couple of new ones. I didn't play any poker, I was too exhausted and brain dead to even pretend, but hanging out on the couch was just fine with me.
On the way home we stopped to see my sister's new house in Santa Barbara. She skipped the Morocco trip to close on it, and I can see why. It needs paint and a few other touchups, but it's a really nice place in the hills with fantastic views. We left there at about 11am, hit some bad traffic around Prunedale, but still got home by 7pm Saturday night. Yesterday we refilled the fridge and hung out at home.
I'm back to work today and starting a huge new project. I'm feeling weirdly ambivalent about the whole thing. I like what I do now, but I've basically been operating on autopilot for the last couple of years, so it's good to have something new to chew on. I'm still not quite sure what the scope of this is going to be. I suspect it's going to require a public title change, but I'm not sure to what. I'll be in charge of the infrastructure that supports all of O's English language developer communities worldwide - basically it's a HUGE super fancy Jive forum with a lot of bells and whistles, plus two or three other message boards/social entities that will be migrated and folded into the larger Jive presence over the next year. 3-4 million users, I think. Still trying to process that one. I had my first meeting (by phone) with the new boss and the technical guy to discuss the handoff last Tuesday, and I'm going to actually drive into the office (I know, I'm spoiled) every Thursday for the foreseeable future to get a handle on it.
Thanksgiving was better than I expected. I love my extended family, but they do drive me insane sometimes. They really laid off some of the third rail topics this year and we had a good time. I think it's also easier now that there are four kids under 10 (cousin Brian has 3 and Kristin has 1) so the attention gets more focused on them, and they are well-behaved, smart, funny kids across the board. Stopped in for poker night at El Rancho Destructo on Friday night and got to see a bunch of folks and meet a couple of new ones. I didn't play any poker, I was too exhausted and brain dead to even pretend, but hanging out on the couch was just fine with me.
On the way home we stopped to see my sister's new house in Santa Barbara. She skipped the Morocco trip to close on it, and I can see why. It needs paint and a few other touchups, but it's a really nice place in the hills with fantastic views. We left there at about 11am, hit some bad traffic around Prunedale, but still got home by 7pm Saturday night. Yesterday we refilled the fridge and hung out at home.
I'm back to work today and starting a huge new project. I'm feeling weirdly ambivalent about the whole thing. I like what I do now, but I've basically been operating on autopilot for the last couple of years, so it's good to have something new to chew on. I'm still not quite sure what the scope of this is going to be. I suspect it's going to require a public title change, but I'm not sure to what. I'll be in charge of the infrastructure that supports all of O's English language developer communities worldwide - basically it's a HUGE super fancy Jive forum with a lot of bells and whistles, plus two or three other message boards/social entities that will be migrated and folded into the larger Jive presence over the next year. 3-4 million users, I think. Still trying to process that one. I had my first meeting (by phone) with the new boss and the technical guy to discuss the handoff last Tuesday, and I'm going to actually drive into the office (I know, I'm spoiled) every Thursday for the foreseeable future to get a handle on it.