This is all a little sudden. I picked up a small contract in upstate New York last week and we are moving there on monday night lock, stock and barrel. Everything is a bit of a mess right now. Packing boxes all over the floor, the phone ringing off the hook, trying to find a car shipping company that'll get my truck there on time .... I 'll have to start at work on 14th. That didn't really leave us with much time to wrap up, pack and say good byes.

I would later on vent here on the whole job search thing (the short description: it sucks), but right now I must get back to packing. I loved living in Northern California . I had a great time here, made wonderful friends and grew a great deal both professionally and emotionally. I landed here in the middle of '99 and caught the last phase of the go go 90s - extravagant dotcom parties, sponsored cruises in the Bay, snowboarding trips et al. It was nice while it lasted :-). But even now when the party is over and the tax refunds to the out of work tech workers is creating this massive deficit in California , Bay area is still a great place to work. It still has the largest concentration of brilliant technical minds on the planet. It has one of the most accessible and beautiful outdoors available in the country, the most adorably snooty people on the face of earth (all of whom think that this is the center of the earth) and is an oasis of tolerance in these uncertain times. Nevertheless, I am very glad that I am moving. Things got quite bad. The web is not a good place to talk about work. But what I feel right now is an incredible sense of relief. I have lived in mid-atlantic earlier and liked New York. Hopefully, we'll like it again.