Snozberry

It's past my bedtime, but I just cleaned up the blog and feel that it needs to be fed.

A few weeks ago, Jenny and I moved up to Cambridge, MA. The move itself went spectacularly well, thanks to the gracious help from our friends down in DC. The only real hitch was that I needed to rent a larger 26' truck the morning we moved because it was quite clear that everything of ours was not going to fit in a 16' truck I had reserved. This meant being nailed for an additional $600, but in the end I think that everyone who helped us move agreed that it was worth it. Being stuck with a fully packed truck and extra stuff would've been an utter nightmare for everyone involved.

A couple days after we moved up, beefstew.net was up and running and I started working at Arcadia Solutions. That was probably not the best choice from a logistical standpoint, because we're still surrounded by boxes and neither of us can find all of our clothes. On the other hand, from a purely professional perspective I think it worked out quite well. I was able to receive a basic introduction to the firm the first week (when I wasn't at the RMV), travelled to Long Island to be on a client site the first half of the second week, and then to the Cape for a company-wide strategy planning event for the remainder of the week. Jenny came down at the end of that trip for the weekend (that was this past weekend) and we returned home on Sunday evening. This week I'm lucky to be in Boston, working up in Burlington, MA where Arcadia is headquartered.

I can't say that I'm thrilled with my current work, but I met a lot of good people at the off-site and believe that I have successfully involved myself in some interesting development work that wil likely involve talking with people from RAND, of all places. No more details there, I'm afraid - trade secrets :).

To all who have been writing me email, I'm very sorry that I haven't written back, but I've literally been pulling 16 hour days attending work, getting registered with the commonwealth of Massachusetts, schmoozing with my new colleagues, and unpacking. I have barely had time to keep up with Jenny's new Harvard experiences and my strategy for working in a new firm, nevermind such simple things as eating, doing laundry, or co-captaining my fall ultimate team (which I've unfortunately all but completely neglected). My desk still isn't set up, although I plan to get that done this week (doing that requires re-routing the ethernet wires through the basement, which is moderately time-consuming) - and hopefully when that happens I will be able to sit in a more normal setting and bang out some messages. I also have some RAND work left to finish that has sat utterly neglected since the move... Ugh, the TODO list is huge.

Okay, it's really too late to continue (I get up at 0700 these days); until next time.