Flux, Flex, and Other

Well, it’s official.  We live in Charlottesville!  Well, actually, only this part of “we”.  Patty is coming up this weekend with Higgins (the cat) to join the dogs and I up here.

The house is good!  The neighborhood is quiet and is close to the Rivanna Trail, which is a cool network of trail that completely circumnavigates Charlottesville.  I’ve been walking the dogs on it most days, and today we spotted a small deer.  Raya nearly had a conniption she was so excited!

In personal defeat news, the couch we bought in Atlanta does NOT fit into the basement in any way whatsoever.  So it is in our living room right now, with an ad on CraigsList.  Hopefully we’ll get takers on it.

The house is at least partially unpacked.  I got everything out of boxes for the kitchen (I think) and at least put them in the cabinets.  We’ll have to perform some strategery once Patty gets here to organize things better.  I’m not too good at that, and she is!

Tomorrow is my last official day at Booz Allen.  I’m heading to the local office (the one I was SUPPOSED TO transfer to) to turn in the badges, laptop, etc.  Monday starts the new job at Cynergy Systems — I’ll be headed to DC for the week and ramping up there.  I’m really excited about it- the people there seem on top of their games, and I think it will be a good technical challenge for me to step up in a “real” development environment.  A little nervous, but mostly excited.

I think the biggest challenge will be working from the house.  I hear from people who do it that it takes a couple months to get in the groove — not taking a 3 hour nap at lunch, actually doing solid work… but once you get in that grove they say it’s awesome.  And it looks like the work will be really interesting, so that should help me find the groove better.

BTW, we changed our cell numbers from the Houston (832) numbers.  If you have any email address for us and still have the 832 numbers, send me a note and I’ll send you the new numbers.  If you’re going to use my Booz Allen address, better hurry — that dies tomorrow evening sometime I suspect?

Here’s a pic of my cat, Higgins, doing what he does normally - sleeping in odd positions in odd places around the house.

Very not-interesting I know, but I was testing posting the photo from my cell phone thru Flickr. Will he handy while hurtling down the highway during the move to let you guys know what’s going on.