My life is mostly sunshine & rainbows.
So I finally moved down to Raleigh on the second of the month. I've got a car I love ('04 Accord with heated leather seats and all parts under warranty for the next 58K miles), a temporary job (15/hr sporadic but sufficient IT work) while I interview for real jobs (favorite proposition- .NET programmer for this place 2.5 miles from home, where the Front Desk Girl has known my sister for a dozen years and the head of IT used to program for Working Designs. I'd help people who already know how to dodge taxes do it faster. #2- Engineering Liason for Microsoft, where I'd work 12-16 hour days, with my primary responsibility being to help people with no social skills tell their boss what they need, and then get the customers to tell us why we're wrong and explain to the engineers why they don't really need what they... blah blah blah. Miserable work I'd be pretty decent at for twice what any other job offers.) I have stuff to do four nights a week already, largely thanks to Kitty's social connections and my Great Inner Peace allowing me to fit in at a rave without chemical assistance*. I found a $10/month gym that's open 24 hours during the weekdays and I have three pets who are fantastically adorable and usually sweet. Though the Ferret smells.
The * above- At first, for dancing, I'd stand at the side and try to find someone with about my build, watch them, and if they didn't look like a dork then I'd mimic. But when you watch a guy dance too closely, they all look like dorks. And watching someone to mimic them looks either awkward or just insulting. Then I realized, if I don't watch too closely, the ones who look like they're having fun fit in. So I'd just dance however seemed natural, and I blended in with a crowd. Someone wearing an XKCD shirt offered me E. I declined and talked to him about why Macintosh sucks for a while.
Now, for the one bad thing.
It's apparently a felony to move to North Carolina on a 31 day month, a weekend, or if 30 days from your move in date will be a weekend.
You have 30 days to change your driver's license (or non-driver state ID) over, which can only be done at the DMV and only on a weekday. This requires your old license, one more form of ID, your social security card, proof of financial liability (state-approved insurance), and Proof of Residence. Proof of residence theoretically means any document showing you live at the address you say you do. However, rental agreements don't count, and bills don't count. It has to be a bank statement, on their actual letterhead. But it takes a month to generate a statement. And, while the bank can print out your balance, etc, they cannot legally stamp or sign it, as that would make a statement.
So... you have to move in on a mon-tues-wed of a 30-day month, open a bank account that day, wait for the mail to come on your 30th day, and go to the DMV with your bank statement. And the four other pieces of identification. And you cannot buy a car without a registration, which requires a local license.
(But the first thing you said was you had a car you loved?) God Bless my natural Semitic talent for forgery. Yes, it's a felony. But I moved in on a Sunday. It was going to be a felony either way.
Also, as to my next Pitt Trip: I was planning on going this weekend. I have no work Friday, and thus could meet Tommy at his place when he gets off work and only have to drive half way. Then I discovered that The Offspring are having a free concert in Charlotte (about 100, 120 mi), with The Bravery as their opening act, and some other bands I don't know well. And I have a need to take my car on a roadtrip. But I'm not sure I won't be working next Friday, and I don't want to make the whole drive if I can avoid it. So... I'll know next week's schedule by the end of this week. If I am free next Fri, then I go to Offspring concert & Henry's Rave this weekend and go up next. If I'm not free next Friday, I go up this weekend.
Oh, yeah... Blah blah "temp boy leaving in two weeks" blah blah "mediocre anyway".
The * above- At first, for dancing, I'd stand at the side and try to find someone with about my build, watch them, and if they didn't look like a dork then I'd mimic. But when you watch a guy dance too closely, they all look like dorks. And watching someone to mimic them looks either awkward or just insulting. Then I realized, if I don't watch too closely, the ones who look like they're having fun fit in. So I'd just dance however seemed natural, and I blended in with a crowd. Someone wearing an XKCD shirt offered me E. I declined and talked to him about why Macintosh sucks for a while.
Now, for the one bad thing.
It's apparently a felony to move to North Carolina on a 31 day month, a weekend, or if 30 days from your move in date will be a weekend.
You have 30 days to change your driver's license (or non-driver state ID) over, which can only be done at the DMV and only on a weekday. This requires your old license, one more form of ID, your social security card, proof of financial liability (state-approved insurance), and Proof of Residence. Proof of residence theoretically means any document showing you live at the address you say you do. However, rental agreements don't count, and bills don't count. It has to be a bank statement, on their actual letterhead. But it takes a month to generate a statement. And, while the bank can print out your balance, etc, they cannot legally stamp or sign it, as that would make a statement.
So... you have to move in on a mon-tues-wed of a 30-day month, open a bank account that day, wait for the mail to come on your 30th day, and go to the DMV with your bank statement. And the four other pieces of identification. And you cannot buy a car without a registration, which requires a local license.
(But the first thing you said was you had a car you loved?) God Bless my natural Semitic talent for forgery. Yes, it's a felony. But I moved in on a Sunday. It was going to be a felony either way.
Also, as to my next Pitt Trip: I was planning on going this weekend. I have no work Friday, and thus could meet Tommy at his place when he gets off work and only have to drive half way. Then I discovered that The Offspring are having a free concert in Charlotte (about 100, 120 mi), with The Bravery as their opening act, and some other bands I don't know well. And I have a need to take my car on a roadtrip. But I'm not sure I won't be working next Friday, and I don't want to make the whole drive if I can avoid it. So... I'll know next week's schedule by the end of this week. If I am free next Fri, then I go to Offspring concert & Henry's Rave this weekend and go up next. If I'm not free next Friday, I go up this weekend.
Oh, yeah... Blah blah "temp boy leaving in two weeks" blah blah "mediocre anyway".