Plaidophile

I'm glad I'm finally starting the new job on Monday because god damn am I bored right now. I could use some friends. For all the people I know in the area, nobody seems to actually be around (or if they are, they're not answering their email). Maybe I should call some folks on the phone.

Meanwhile, I heard from a future coworker that things might be a little bit crazy this week at work due to an extremely atypical confluence of high-stress events, so I have a feeling I'm going to just kind of feel like a useless third-party observer for a while. (And in the meantime, said coworker is also going to be on vacation all week. So I'm going to be a total fish out of water! Hooray!)

Oh well. Pretty much every engineering job starts out along these lines. It's where things go from here that makes the difference.

I kind of wish I'd decided to move down to San Francisco sooner, to give myself a bit more time to adjust to the area and so on before having a hectic weekend before starting (especially considering how fruitless the real estate search turned out to be), but I think I needed the time back in Seattle to say my farewells to people.

Anyway. I know some of you are in the bay area. Who wants to get together for drinks sometime tomorrow, or whatever?