I’ve been out here 4 days now, 2 of which I’ve been working. It has been a nice change of pace, although I have been delinquent in my blogging. The thought to blog just doesn’t come naturally yet I guess. Things at work have been a bit crazy, my boss is running around freaking out about everything. She wants all the higherups working longer hours, which applies to the engineers as well. She wants lots of new deliverables to give to the masses. Joy.

The VPN solution for connecting my computer to work’s network is somewhat frustrating. There are speed issues opening files, and Outlook doesn’t always tell me when I get a new message. The file speed thing does really affect my development though, it can take 2 minutes to push a new war file to the dev server. Bahhhh.

My boss’s house is REALLY nice, she really lucked out. It is not very big, for for one person it is perfect, but it is very cute. It is the first house I’ve seen with more bathrooms than bedrooms (3bd/3.5ba). The neighborhood is pretty nice too, its quiet, has lots of big trees, and is near lots of shops. It is a bit weird to be working out of someone’s living room though.

Corinne is my boss’s biggest lieutenant. She’s been out here for a few weeks now, and house sitting for my boss. It has been a lot of fun being here with Corinne. Just hanging out with anyone is nice I suppose, but she’s a kick regardless of my loneliness factor. It has been nice sitting outside on the porch, yacking it up.

I went out to dinner with Halle and Jake on Monday night. The plan was oringially for Sunday night, but they had just returned from a wedding and Ohio and were worn out. We went to Bogart’s, a sort of American style restaurant very near here. It was nice to see them again. They’re starting to look for a house out here, so I can relate to what they’re going through.

DalRae is now living at the CA house temporarily. She’s cat sitting in a way, and moving the last of the stuff out. It looks like I missed packing quite a few things, so she’s going to mail them out to me. She is also talking about giving the cat up for adoption, which initially really upset me. I immediately offered to take her, and DalRae pursued that avenue. But after I stopped and thought about it, it really doesn’t make all that much sense. It was mostly a selfish response, I just don’t want to lose the cat. Knowing the cat is with DalRae somehow makes her a little bit closer, as though I might still be able to go see her sometime. But shipping her out here would be quite traumatic for her, and I wouldn’t provide the best home for her anyway. She needs a quiet, stable family who is home a lot. That I’m not.

In other news, Tim, another employee, got in a major wreck while driving out here. Thankfully, all living things in the truck got through it with only bruises. But all of Tim’s stuff is completely ruined, so he’s got a lot of crap to deal with. And I found out that another employee might be joining us from Oakland, as soon as the new office happens.

And something I’m quite ashamed of, Corinne somehow got me to watch the Gilmore girls, One Tree Hill, and Judging Amy. Such fluff, it was fun, but droll in their overly melodramatic nature. This just reinforced why I don’t watch that crap, so I suppose there is a flip side. But poor Corinne is hopelessly addicted

My boss returns on Friday, so I will probably start staying at my place then. There is apparently an air mattress here that I can use. Oh well, it’ll be sort of good to start using my place. I’ll still be here most of my working life for the next month or so anyway. Hopefully work will slow down so that I can start settling and getting out, doing stuff, and meeting new people. On a somewhat related note, I found out last night that Corinne and Kevin are potential camping buddies. Score.