![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Progress? A lot of puttering, and two job applications. N. persuaded me to set a minimum goal of 2/week. And I re-pinged Google. Apparently I've let a couple of emails get stale on my stack, so I've gone back and replied to some of them.
Thursday's webinar on career objectives was useful -- that's one of my highest priorities, since just about anything in the IT field is going to be a career change from "software research". The other high priority is figuring out what my budget is going to be, since I'm highly unlikely to be making anywhere near the same amount after the move. I need to know what my bottom line is.
The house is looking much "better", thanks to the efforts of
minions good friends Devon, Liz, and Ogg. Huge
amounts of stuff have been recycled, friendcycled, donated, sold to used
bookstores, or put on the discard pile. What's left is probably still too
much for an apartment, but it'll go into storage until we get into a house
a year or so down the road.
Some of that stuff hasn't been touched in over two decades. Three, in a few cases. Gleep!
We're running across some fascinating old stuff, though. One of the most interesting was an old self-assessment I did toward the end of my previous job. Not all of it is relevant anymore, but it's interesting.
AT&T pushed an update to my phone, but it still wasn't Ice Cream Sandwich. :( I installed Eclipse, thinking that I probably ought to get familiar with it, and do some Android development. We'll see how far I get with that, but my Java is pretty rusty and could use some work.
Naomi and I had time yesterday to work a little bit on our upcoming Westercon concert set. We discovered that I can, in fact, come up with harmonies. Not in real-time, but once I have the chords down I can pretty easily improvise a harmony line that fits them, and Naomi has a good enough memory for melodies that together we can make it work. Cool!
I'm still not walking nearly enough, though I did do a 1.4mi loop around the neighborhood yesterday morning.
Several links. Is Sitting a Lethal Activity? Probably. And I and many of my friends in filking show up in Eye On The Bay: Those Other Conventions Pt. 2
( raw notes )
