I did a very difficult thing today. I gave away books. Lots of books. Lots and lots of books. I wish I’d thought to take pictures of the stacks and later bags upon bags of books that we culled out, bagged up and donated to the Arlington public library this afternoon. Standing at the loading […]
Perhaps the worst thing about the move so far is the effect that packing is having on my dust allergies. This weekend we’ve cleared out most of the bookcases and video/DVD racks, and have made a good start on the hall closet, and apparently we’re putting a lot of dust into the air in the […]
As Jeff has noted, when we relocate to the Bay Area next month we’ll be moving into the house in Daly City in which he lived until third grade. He hasn’t said much about it, so I knew nothing of it except its address. Before I met Jeff, all I knew of Daly City more […]
Thursday we slept in, and then headed over to the Victoria Palace Theatre for a matinee performance of Billy Elliot the Musical. On the way, we grabbed a pasty outside Victoria Station and ate lunch on the sidewalk outside the theatre. I hadn’t seen the film, but knew the basic storyline; I found the musical […]
I have an electronic copy of the offer letter, and a paper copy has been snail mailed; in the end the process didn’t take the extra time they thought it might. As of June 26, then, I’ll be the new web products manager for the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Here, from the job […]
As Jeff pointed out, this past weekend we indulged in an orgy of shredding, taking a first step into the daunting task before us–to move cross-country in the next six weeks, and all the affiliated activities that entails*, while working full-time the next four. Before we start packing in earnest, we first are culling and […]
Well, actually he was on the back seat, and the car’s a hatchback so it doesn’t really have a boot, and besides we don’t live in England, but you get the point. Today we did a brief–about twenty minutes–test run with Alex in the car. I drove while Jeff sat in the back seat with […]
I had thought I might report regularly from London, but that turned out to be overly ambitious and impractical. I hadn’t taken my laptop, but just my PocketPC, and while I was able to connect to the hotel’s wifi with the latter, it’s just not a practical device for writing and posting to the blog. […]
My references were contacted on Tuesday, and on Wednesday we tentatively set a start date of June 26th for the new job, on the assumption that the formal offer would come by the end of this week. My plan, then, was to work through June 9, have a moving company pick up our stuff the […]
The details are still to be worked out, and the offer is contingent on my references checking out–the calls have been scheduled for today–but I was offered the job. Assuming the formal offer letter comes by the end of the week, and I accept, we’ll likely be heading to San Francisco around mid-June. My new […]