Done in San Jose (20120711 We - 13 Fr)

[mdlbear]

We got up reasonably early on Wednesday, were on the road by a little after 9am after a huge breakfast at Black Bear Diner, and arrived at the Starport in time to order pizza and chicken wings for dinner. Not staying again at the Grants Pass Travelodge -- the 2-bed rooms are tiny, and even the ground floor isn't really scooter accessible. There's just enough room between the bed and the wall to drop my CPAP into.

Og has done yeoman's work on the living room floor; it looks terrific (as long as you don't look at the edges, which are ragged). Liz and Devon did great work packing, though they apparently didn't realize that we wouldn't want to use paper plates and plastic forks for the rest of the time we're here. Normally, you save things like the kitchen and bathroom for the last minute.

I spent most of Thursday and yestday packing. Thursday mostly the office; Friday included taking down one set of the garage shelves. I'm pretty sure now, looking at them, that the end bays were assembled on their sides and tilted up. I think I'm going to leave one set here.

I still have a huge amount of triage and packing to do, even though most of it is almost certainly junk.

Links, as usual, below in the notes.

0711 We
  * up 7:20; d
  % The water looks ugly, tastes bad; no way I'm putting it in my nose.
  : Black Bear doesn't seem to have its own wifi here, but it's close enough to
    the Travelodge.  So, yay!
  * drive down not as bad -- a huge breakfast helps; we only got a few snacks on
    the way down.
  * Og has done yeoman's work on the floors, lights, fans, etc.  Impressive.
  @ Mobile 3.0 arrives: How Qualcomm just showed us the future of the cell
    phone (and why iPhone sucks for this new contextual age) — Scobleizer 
  * Talked with $RENTER.  Doesn't want the sewing room shelves; keep office shelves
  * decent-sized crowd on Wed, though most showed up late

0712 Th
  * up 8:15; W=196.0; d, n, t;
  @ Former Nokia employees start company to build new MeeGo devices 
  % (12:11:26) ***mdlbear is up to his chin -- literally -- in boxes of office
     junk that need to be triaged, and surrounded by shelves that are empty enough
     to look desolate, but with enough stuff still to be boxed as to look daunting.
  * 12:47 box remaining filk books; sort out con books and filkzines
  @ The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) 
  * (13:46:46) ***mdlbear finishes the box from the filk shelf.  I found *all*
     of my song transcriptions. 
  * 3pm Home Depot estimate cabinet refacing  * confirm: 866-646-0656 option 2 
    $10K, for a job that doesn't have to be done.  We'll just replace the
    damaged doors and the broken hinge.
  * take excess flooring back to Lowes.  Apparently they didn't give Og a
    receipt (because he wasn't me), and didn't send me one (because phone order)  
    -> kept one box, sent 8 back.  Ran the calculation again; not clear what was
       wrong, because I got the same result.  However, there were apparently two
       different batches in there, so they may have had different square footage.
  @ tagryn: Thoughts on Paterno/PSU/Sandusky (crossposted from Wingheads.com) 
    IMO the whole thing represents everything detestable about sports, but I'm
    an extreme outlier.
  * triage on boxes from my side of the garage
  * finished sorting one of the boxes from work (the "take me home" box)
  * Devon found a box with the songs I wrote in college.
    ! amazed.  Thought that stuff was lost forever.  Songs I'd forgotten I ever
      wrote, plus Ellen.  Some have sheet music!
  * Go through the "health 2009" box and toss useless stuff (group fliers,
    medicine fliers, etc.)  About 2/3
  & found the Sheevaplug.  Could have sworn I'd given that away.
    now I have to track down the CD, don't I? -> done
  @ The End of TV and the Death of the Cable Bundle - The Atlantic 
  @ U.S. declares drought-stricken states largest natural disaster area ever 
    roughly *half the US* f(Elizabeth Barrette)  Welcome to global warming.

0713 Fr
  * up 7:42; W=196.2; d, n, t; 
  @ Science fiction: Why it's a must read for IT pros | ZDNet 
  * start "small computers" box:  sheeva, chumby, neo, eee, pads
  * consolidate "case parts" box
  @ Lie-bor: Could the Biggest Scam in History Maybe Destroy Wall Street? 
    One can hope. "When a system has zero credibility, it’s only a matter of
    time before fudging numbers becomes the new norm..." 
  * front closet door:  unhinge, plane bottom, polish + lubricate pins.
  @ What Is the Future of Publishing? - Forbes (ysabetwordsmith)
    "Increasingly, books become brief online, downloadable ebooks, and this
     model proliferates wildly." - actually, long works get serialized or
     realized as complex websites.  That's different.
  @ Stuff makes us sad, especially in America - Boing Boing 
  * a couple of hours in the garage disassembling the West shelf system and
    doing some triage on old Zilog-era junk.
  @ osewalrus - A few random thoughts on Bain 
  * buy: cube boxes, mattress bags (not needed, as it turned out), wardrobe box

Comments

[carol-kitty.livejournal.com]

When is your last day in San Jose? Sounds like you are almost ready to go. I wish you luck on the move.

[mdlbear]

Wednesday, 7/25

Thanks!

[gmcdavid.livejournal.com]

Saw Valve Continues Recruiting Top Linux Talent and thought of you. Apparently they are located in Bellevue, WA.

[mdlbear]

Cool! Thanks!

Mainly kernel devs, apparently, so my skills may not be applicable. But still worth checking out in case they go farther up the stack.