Friday, July 04, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Day 2 - Dinner with Edward
While Ethan and Mia went inside to the restroom, Edward and I talked about our day.
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Day 2 - Grandpa and Grandma McCurdy
We stopped in New Jersey for one last visit to Mia's grandpa.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Technical Prowess
This post is coming to you from my new laptop. We decided that we weren't going to take our desktop when we move. But, since I'll be a contractor I'm going to need my own computer pretty much every day. And Mia didn't want to be left without anything to help her find things in our new location, check the weather, pay the bills, and do things during the day.
The downside is that I got a computer with MS Vista. We flirted with the idea of getting a Mac but the price was just a little more than we wanted to spend at this moment.
The real technical accomplishment though was that I had to re-configure our wireless network so I could connect this computer. This may also solve the problems that Mom runs into when she tries to connect at our house during the summers. I thought it would be difficult but it turned out to be fairly simple.
I'm rather impressed with myself. Now I'll have to see if I can get the printer to work wirelessly as well. Yikes!
The downside is that I got a computer with MS Vista. We flirted with the idea of getting a Mac but the price was just a little more than we wanted to spend at this moment.
The real technical accomplishment though was that I had to re-configure our wireless network so I could connect this computer. This may also solve the problems that Mom runs into when she tries to connect at our house during the summers. I thought it would be difficult but it turned out to be fairly simple.
I'm rather impressed with myself. Now I'll have to see if I can get the printer to work wirelessly as well. Yikes!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Leaving Boston in our Dust
Mia has already made the post about it but I feel like I should say something too.
We are moving to Austin, TX at the end of next month (I'm sneaking this post in on the last day of May). It's going to be quite the change but we are ready for a change. Boston has been good for us, and we would like to stay, but purchasing a house is next on our "major life decisions" list and we can't check it off while here.
As many of you know, I was looking for jobs down in North Carolina. It looked like a good place, especially the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill triangle area we were focused on. Unfortunately, not that many of the places I applied got back to me. And once I'd done a deep search on the job boards, I kept finding the same positions over and over as I tried news ways of searching.
So, it just didn't seem like the right market for me to head into.
With Austin, I've actually got some professional contacts in the area, as well as some personal friends. And, of course, my Mom's family down in San Antonio. That will make the transition much easier for us and is another reason we are excited about going down that way.
Austin also has a number to tech start-ups and small companies which is the kind of environment that I think I want/need to take the next steps in my career. Marketing is undergoing some significant changes and I want the freedom to keep-up with them. Going to a large company with an entrenched bureaucracy would make that more difficult.
If we haven't mentioned before (though I'm sure we have) we are outgoing our current apartment. It's been 5 months since Edward was born and the place keeps feeling smaller every day. Soon, we will be crushed by the closing in walls, we will be like the skeletons at Pompeii, frozen in the midst of our daily lives.
Ok, that may be a little exaggerated. But we are excited. We'll keep you posted on developments.
We are moving to Austin, TX at the end of next month (I'm sneaking this post in on the last day of May). It's going to be quite the change but we are ready for a change. Boston has been good for us, and we would like to stay, but purchasing a house is next on our "major life decisions" list and we can't check it off while here.
As many of you know, I was looking for jobs down in North Carolina. It looked like a good place, especially the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill triangle area we were focused on. Unfortunately, not that many of the places I applied got back to me. And once I'd done a deep search on the job boards, I kept finding the same positions over and over as I tried news ways of searching.
So, it just didn't seem like the right market for me to head into.
With Austin, I've actually got some professional contacts in the area, as well as some personal friends. And, of course, my Mom's family down in San Antonio. That will make the transition much easier for us and is another reason we are excited about going down that way.
Austin also has a number to tech start-ups and small companies which is the kind of environment that I think I want/need to take the next steps in my career. Marketing is undergoing some significant changes and I want the freedom to keep-up with them. Going to a large company with an entrenched bureaucracy would make that more difficult.
If we haven't mentioned before (though I'm sure we have) we are outgoing our current apartment. It's been 5 months since Edward was born and the place keeps feeling smaller every day. Soon, we will be crushed by the closing in walls, we will be like the skeletons at Pompeii, frozen in the midst of our daily lives.
Ok, that may be a little exaggerated. But we are excited. We'll keep you posted on developments.
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