Watching from afar

I am in Kentucky visiting my wife's mother and working at home here. Watching Ike from afar is kind of surreal. It is just amazing the kind of information that is online now, but often, you want just a little more.

Evacuation is a hard thing to stomach, I guess. When everybody evacuated for Rita, people were stranded for dozens of hours on freeways in the heat with no food or gas, and nobody wanted to go through that again. The officials this time tried to keep people out of life-threatening danger off the road, but it looks like a lot of other people stayed. I can understand why, but I would have gone. You just can't take the chance.

It's a melancholy night watching this unfold. I think that this is going to turn out very badly for Galveston and the communities surround Galveston Bay.

Been a while...

...and I still don't have too much time.

In April, I was laid off from Lombardi in Austin. Went through a little bit of soul searching, but I think I recovered pretty well.

I set about to be professional about my job search. First of all, I had some friends help me with my resume, and they were vicious, er, very helpful. Actually, they were. Thanks very much to Jade, Andy, Richard and Danil.

I work now for a company in San Francisco doing QA on developer tools. One of my dearest friends works there now, and got me the interview. Thanks, Brian!

Working out of the house is cool, but it is not exactly what we had pictured. Since I am time shifted, all of my meeting happen in the afternoon, so Jade's plan of going swimming after putting the kids down for naps tends not to work very well, as I am usually tied to the phone.

Other than that it is great. Other than being distracted by being in front of my home computer all of time, with the temptations to putter rather than work...