Most of the globe has already time-zoned into the new year, per the Gregorian calendar, not the only one going. PST brings up the penultimate-rear, with zones closer to Guam ending that calendar day, Guam being "where America's day begins" per "sun never setting" meme, big in Britannia.
Being service sector, I work for a living, which these days means lining up something new given the end of a first experiment / pilot by the parent company. I was privileged to be a part of this bold beginning of something new, and understand the need for an interlude. In high technology, we don't always expect a position to last. It's not that they fire us; the whole movie comes to an end, and we were cast. California is good at Silicon Valley stuff for a reason: Hollywood is close by.
But then Portland has its Hollywood neighborhood. We're a micro-tronic version of LA + Bay Area, one might claim, using nanotechnology to fit it all in a pinhead (i.e. me). Grin. So yeah, today was a job interview, and things clicked pretty well. I'll be entering a boot camp like experience, learning some new ropes. However it's back to gigging it together, as from 1990 on, until I experienced my first "corporate job" with benefits in the person of our parent company. Soon to be orphaned once more, I'm back into digging gigging.
I've got other paperwork going, plus the ongoing "radio show" serving the State of California. Despite a competitive mentality, healthy, we're a single Left Coast nation, per this Tuft University analysis. The Northwest is exploding economically, as is Python (that's what they say: "exploding" -- can't find enough teachers). I'm happy OSCON is moving to Austin, for Austin's sake: the Silicon Hills need to help us continue Revolution OS, still ongoing. That other paperwork is what took me to Fred Meyer just now, to buy replacement ink cartridges for the HP Envy, Carol's rig.
Deke (the Geek) is experiencing turnover at his place, meaning new cast, perhaps some new characters for this blog. Time will tell. In the mean time, we customarily look back, in these posts as well, especially to the Bucky Ball aspects of the New Years Eve ritual. These blogs come choc-o-block with references to carbon allotropes and geodesic structures. Waving hello to Bill Lightfoot, assorted cousins, K. Snelson, Valsquiers, Denny & family, Koskis, Boltons, various consulting firms and medical practices. We're thinking of refugees on the move around the globe, student-teachers in our Global University (alternatively our Global Psych Ward -- some say "Hotel").
Onwards then, escaping Idiocracy, and towards a Promised Land.
Being service sector, I work for a living, which these days means lining up something new given the end of a first experiment / pilot by the parent company. I was privileged to be a part of this bold beginning of something new, and understand the need for an interlude. In high technology, we don't always expect a position to last. It's not that they fire us; the whole movie comes to an end, and we were cast. California is good at Silicon Valley stuff for a reason: Hollywood is close by.
But then Portland has its Hollywood neighborhood. We're a micro-tronic version of LA + Bay Area, one might claim, using nanotechnology to fit it all in a pinhead (i.e. me). Grin. So yeah, today was a job interview, and things clicked pretty well. I'll be entering a boot camp like experience, learning some new ropes. However it's back to gigging it together, as from 1990 on, until I experienced my first "corporate job" with benefits in the person of our parent company. Soon to be orphaned once more, I'm back into digging gigging.
I've got other paperwork going, plus the ongoing "radio show" serving the State of California. Despite a competitive mentality, healthy, we're a single Left Coast nation, per this Tuft University analysis. The Northwest is exploding economically, as is Python (that's what they say: "exploding" -- can't find enough teachers). I'm happy OSCON is moving to Austin, for Austin's sake: the Silicon Hills need to help us continue Revolution OS, still ongoing. That other paperwork is what took me to Fred Meyer just now, to buy replacement ink cartridges for the HP Envy, Carol's rig.
Deke (the Geek) is experiencing turnover at his place, meaning new cast, perhaps some new characters for this blog. Time will tell. In the mean time, we customarily look back, in these posts as well, especially to the Bucky Ball aspects of the New Years Eve ritual. These blogs come choc-o-block with references to carbon allotropes and geodesic structures. Waving hello to Bill Lightfoot, assorted cousins, K. Snelson, Valsquiers, Denny & family, Koskis, Boltons, various consulting firms and medical practices. We're thinking of refugees on the move around the globe, student-teachers in our Global University (alternatively our Global Psych Ward -- some say "Hotel").
Onwards then, escaping Idiocracy, and towards a Promised Land.
