Seems like a rather large percentage of my blog posts are of the I’m still here type posts. I really did mean to keep up with it this time. I wanted to keep a nice travel log, but that sort of fell apart once we hit the road. AT&T’s mobile network really really sucks once you get out of a metro area. I wasn’t expecting 3G service, but I was at least expecting something.

As for the trip itself, it wasn’t horrible . We stayed in some pretty crappy places along the way. We spent a day stuck in Laramie Wyoming when our car broke down. Most of the drive across the country is really quite boring. Around Utah it starts to get a little more interesting. It isn’t a drive I look forward to ever making again.

We’ve started to settle in pretty well and find something of a routine. I’ve been trying to get out and get involved a bit in the local community. So far I’ve been to a BayLISA meeting and RecentChanges Camp. I’m going to try to get to a LUG meeting and a few other things this month too. I haven’t yet decided which communities I want to attend regularly yet.

I’m enjoying it a lot out here. I love being able to walk pretty much everywhere. Our office is in SOMA not far from the stadium where the Giants play. Lots of stuff nearby, including the Moscone center. So if you’re ever in town for a conference, drop me a message.

For those of you interested here is the route we will be taking:

From Dayton to San Mateo

We’re finishing up the packing and the last minute errands, we should be ready to leave here soon. The lsat big thing we have is the move out inspection with the apartment people. It has been an incredibly long week and I’ll be much happier when Dayton is a spec in our rear-view mirror.

I’m going to try to post from the road but I have no idea what AT&T’s data network is like along our path so I don’t know if I’ll be able to every day.

We’re not leaving this evening as originally planned. We decided to leave in the morning instead, we’re just too tired to do any driving safely.

We’re still planning on being in San Francisco Tuesday, can’t wait to be done with moving.

Due to the planned downtime of panacea over the next few days as Sara and I move to California I have moved this blog over to our temporary host. The change went ok given my no sleep triple espresso fueled state.

I’m hoping we have panacea back up early next week, life just won’t be the same without.

Starting over with the blog yet again. Much ugliness and little content to be had so far. I’ve got my old posts stored away in a database and I’ll pull them back out sometime soon.

I’m going to be very busy over the next few days, I just got tired of this thing being so utterly broken.

Oh, I’m giving mephisto a chance this time. Seems like a nice little engine so far. Only mild amounts of trauma getting ruby/gems/rails to be happy.