Journal Xerithane's Journal: Seattle, here I (may) come! 28
I have an interview up in Seattle for a company I would love to work for. Cars + Code = Heaven. Good stuff, and I'm really excited about it. Interview is on Wednesday, and I'm already pretty amped about it. I think it will be a really fun position, and the guy I spoke with on the phone sounded pretty cool, and he likes Toyota/Lexus, too.
Moving to Seattle will be a transition that will take a while to get used to. Luckily it's only 2 hours north, so I can still come down and visit my friends. Being unemployed is just way too boring for me.
2 hours north? (Score:1)
If she had her druthers, we'd live as close to the Woodburn Outlets as possible.
Re:2 hours north? (Score:2)
Down to Woodburn it's a good 3 hours. That's where I'm going today, woo.
Re:2 hours north? (Score:1)
Almost.
I could do without wandering around the damn Calvin Klein bra shop for an hour with the wife, though.
Re:2 hours north? (Score:2)
Perfumania is the place that pisses me off. So are you going to make it back to Seattle or are you staying in Japan?
Re:2 hours north? (Score:1)
But that's just a pipe dream for now. I'm going to ride this job out until the end of January when the company dissolves this division and then reassess what I really want to be doing.
I'm not sure it is going to be computers, though.
Re:2 hours north? (Score:2)
What's the process for immigration there? Your wife is Japanese, right?
Not been there, but I've been to Victoria and it was quite nice...
I'm not sure it is going to be computers, though.
I don't blame you one bit. I was thinking about getting out of the IT world, but I don't have a college degree and that is
Re:2 hours north? (Score:1)
Try taking some trips up to Vancouver while you're living in Seattle, there's some fun stuff to do up there.
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Definitely will do once the GF gets her greencard. I20s are ridiculously annoying.
Re:2 hours north? (Score:2)
I am jealous of anyone living in the pacific northwest - that was our original target, we ended up in Denver instead.
What about Traffic? (Score:2)
Was that a fluke or do you just know when to travel and not hit traffic?
Re:What about Traffic? (Score:2)
I'm tired now, gonna just chill for the rest of the night.
Let me be the first to say ... (Score:1)
And what's to say in the positive column about Toyotas or Lexuses (Lexi?) ? I ask as I am in the market for a vehicle of some form. I personally am pretty much ignorant in such matters. All of my friends have strident opinions however, all of a sudden
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J/k I'm guessing the position involves a company car.
Re:Let me be the first to say ... (Score:1)
See? This is the kind of strong opinion I was talking about.
And I thought Perl vs Python debates got heated
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I got in a bad accident, and was driving a Toyota Camry. It survived the crash very well. I was rear-ended by a truck going around 50-55mph.
Toyota/Lexus are just great cars, they run great, don't have hardly any maintenance issues. I will only buy Toyota or Nissan cars, and I've had GM, Mercedes, and Mazda.
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How very lucky you are. I'd hate to be caught dead in one of those.
Congratulations! [!comment] (Score:2)
Ahem, (Score:2)
Btw, I just brought my laptop in from the car, I left it in the car overnight so its very cold, the screen seems really faded, I assume from the cold... Interesting, and yet a level of paranoia that my screen will crack like a windshield as it heats up... But man is it distracting right now...
Re:Ahem, (Score:2)
Project is going good. It's in a biz dev stage, for the most part. I'm writing a WYSIWYG editor in HTML/JS which is a pain in the ass, because it's a better solution. I'm still going to work on it, but I decided that I really will need a job to get this off the ground. I'm playing around with a lot of new ideas with nerdfarm, and will be pushing a new nerdfarm site out probably in December (depends how things go)
Btw, I just brought my laptop i
Cobalt Group? (Score:2)
Re:Cobalt Group? (Score:2)
Thanks for the offers on the drink. We're thinking of moving downtown so we don't have to drive as much. The company is located in downtown, and the GF hates driving (and I worry something fierce about her driving) so I think that's going to be the plan.
Re:Cobalt Group? (Score:2)
Downtown's not a bad place to live if you want to be close to work, (I lived in Belltown for 18 months) but I thought it somewhat sucked for finding grocery stores you can walk to (the ones I did find were very expensive for me at the time while I was a student). And of course, I'm cheap, and I don't like sharing a wall/ceiling/floor with others, so blah. I prefer house living in-city where possible
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here's hoping you get it (Score:2)
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