2007

I am no longer homeless. I found a place to move into. But not until the weekend before Christmas. It looks like I’ll be able to move in on the 23rd. That’s a Sunday. At least I no longer have to search for a place. By the time this is over, I’ll have spent 32 consecutive nights in four different motels/hotels. Figure that one out in your budget. I have a quickly prepared […]

The truck is gone. So is the trailer. In it’s place is a storage locker, filled with all my earthly belongings. I have a few things in my hotel room, but the bikes, the computers, the bed, etc, are all across the road in a lock-up. Jan Wieck helped me unload the truck. That took about 90 minutes. Then we returned the truck to Penske, and had lunch at Starbucks. I spent much

I left South Carolina at about 5:30 this morning. I arrived in Willow Grove, PA at about 3:30. I’m tired. Now if only I could sleep in my own bed.

I’m at the Howard Johnson in Battleboro, NC. The place has seen better days. The room is $40 a night for a king size bed. It’s just gone 11:31 PM. I plan to be up at 6am. There is about 7.5 hours of driving left to do. I’m not sure if I’ll do the Washington Beltway or go far above and beyond it. We’ll see. I did find a Starbucks via the GPS.

It is 6:48 am on Wednesday morning. John and Ruth had a golf game yesterday at 8:10 am. After they returned, we went to breakfast with at Tony’s Diner. I spent the afternoon at Busch Gardens, riding roller coasters. John loaned me his car to drive there. It was much better than either unloading my car from the trailer or driving the truck and trailer cross-town. :) That evening, we headed to Cici’s

There are 12 hours before I pick up the truck and start the move to Pennsylvania. Right now, Bacula is running the second set of full backups of the day. I’ll leave one copy here in Jupiter, and take the other copy with me. Left to do: pack up the tv and move it downstairs close down the utilities account (water/sewer) return the Comcast cable gear pack up the matress move the sofa

I started packing last week. You might think I’m getting good at packing, having done it just six months ago. I have to admit, many things were not yet unpacked. The office is pretty much packed up. I have left out the printer in case there are some last minute things needed (reservations, directions, etc). Today (yes, it’s US Thanksgiving) I took apart the bed. It is an IKEA bed, so it breaks

I’ve found work. Lots of it in fact. I had three job offers, and declined to proceed to with a few more interview processes. In the end, I took a job with Afilias. I’ll be working with PostgreSQL as a DBA (database administrator). It was just 6 weeks ago that I posted to a few mailing lists that I was looking for work. This was shortly a few seemingly hopeful leads died out.