Today is likely to be my last day in Somerville for a long time. We flew up to clean out my space before it sells ( Read more... )

For those who don't know or have been out of the loop, I've moved to Atlanta, I'm engaged, and I'm selling my house (well, Condo) in Somerville. I have a signed Purchase and Sale agreement and closing is scheduled for August 17. My fiancée and I will be flying up to Boston for a 24-hour whirlwind trip Aug 11-12 to clean up and finish emptying out ( Read more... )

Tomorrow M and I fly back to Logan to work on cleaning up my house and putting it on the market.  It's going to be a very long four days of trash hauling, cleaning, repairing, painting, ....     I have no idea how much free time we'll have, but we DO need to eat!  I just don't have scheduled plans at this point.   Lots to do... lots to do..

For those who don't already know, I'm moving to Atlanta.  I'm in town this week to work on packing up all my things into boxes and then I'll be back NEXT week to pack all those boxes into a UHaul and drive it down.  After I move I don't know how often I'll back to the Northeast, although I'm sure I'll make it at some point ( Read more... )

Tomorrow (Thursday) M and I are flying up to Boston to start packing up my house.  The plan is to leave Atlanta as soon as we get up and fly up to Boston to spend the next five days putting all my stuff into boxes.   We have five full days of work ahead of us before we fly back down ( Read more... )

In late August of 1989 as a wide-eyed teenager I moved to Boston to attend one of the top-rated Engineering schools in the world.  I spent six wonderful years there, made many friends, got two degrees, and fell in love with New England.  I moved around a bit during school, and after I graduated I moved to California for a year before coming back to ( Read more... )

Here's my travel itinerary for the rest of the year (at least what I know so far). Obviously this is subject to change as things pop up and dates become more firm. But it's completely accurate through mid-August ( Read more... )

My company recently announced new training courses, and all employees are required to take three specific classes. The first of the classes is titled "Onboarding" (the other two are "Meeting Management" and "Managing Conflict"). At first read, I was thinking to myself "why are they teaching us how to get on a boat?" My second thought was "why ( Read more... )

Who's interested in a Day Trip to Marin or Sonoma on Sunday, May 17th?
Leave Palo Alto around 9am?
Let me know.

For those of my friends in NorCal, I'll be out there next week. I'm free all day Sunday, May 17, and Friday, May 22, and I've got evenings free during the week. Anything interesting going on?