It might be premature for a "yay!" but I'm going to give one now anyway. The carpet people called to say that their installers will be calling me tomorrow to tell me at what time tomorrow they will be over to do the carpet install.
It doesn't take very long to get bored with chipboard floors.
Let's hope they come tomorrow because we're going to take apart our bedroom and tear up the carpet tonight.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Change of scenery
Today I start my work day in a new location, my front "den". I think it's supposed to be the den, at least that's what Sara and I call it. It's the room right off of the front entry which I suppose is where you usually put dens.
I'm working here because we've signed up for (and put a deposit on) new carpets which hopefully will be installed later this week. This weekend Sara and I started pulling up the carpet and pad in the upstairs rooms (all of the upstairs, and the stairs, are getting new carpet). We have just the master bedroom and the stairs left to do, which we'll do tonight or tomorrow.
In order to do my office carpet, we had to relocate my desk somewhere, and the den was available (the living room, not so much, since that's where the craft room supplies went). So, now instead of staring out the window and across the street like I usually do, I'm staring into the corner and happy that there isn't too much glare from having the monitor pointed at the windows.
Right now I'm also very glad that I got my Mac Pro with the Airport option, even though I have gigabit Ethernet in most rooms in the house, because I didn't put it in the den. After pulling up all that carpet, I didn't want to have to deal with drilling holes in walls and running cable too.
Hopefully the carpet will be in on Thursday or Friday (or maybe Saturday), because I leave for LA next Monday and return on Friday. After that I start a new job and I won't be working from home anymore (making it hard to be at home for the install).
I'm working here because we've signed up for (and put a deposit on) new carpets which hopefully will be installed later this week. This weekend Sara and I started pulling up the carpet and pad in the upstairs rooms (all of the upstairs, and the stairs, are getting new carpet). We have just the master bedroom and the stairs left to do, which we'll do tonight or tomorrow.
In order to do my office carpet, we had to relocate my desk somewhere, and the den was available (the living room, not so much, since that's where the craft room supplies went). So, now instead of staring out the window and across the street like I usually do, I'm staring into the corner and happy that there isn't too much glare from having the monitor pointed at the windows.
Right now I'm also very glad that I got my Mac Pro with the Airport option, even though I have gigabit Ethernet in most rooms in the house, because I didn't put it in the den. After pulling up all that carpet, I didn't want to have to deal with drilling holes in walls and running cable too.
Hopefully the carpet will be in on Thursday or Friday (or maybe Saturday), because I leave for LA next Monday and return on Friday. After that I start a new job and I won't be working from home anymore (making it hard to be at home for the install).
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Why we're staying put
While not moving is always preferable (in my mind), I had been resigned to moving to LA for my new job as Software Engineering Manager. However, with the housing market the way it is, and apparently being located in a town that not many people want to move to, with a niche property (how many people really need a house with a 6 car garage?), made selling the house for a reasonable amount (read not losing too much money) impossible in a reasonable time frame (6 months).
Couple that with the fact that Sara has been working as a substitute teacher, but really wanting to be a full time teacher, and there was a lot of pressure to have a direction. We felt like we were stuck in limbo, not knowing if we were staying, or if we were going. After half a year, it just got to be too much.
I wanted some direction, but I wasn't finding any here in Minneapolis until a Sunday night drinking buddy said that he was going to be turning down a job offer, but he thought that I might be a good fit for them and wanted to send them my resume with his rejection letter. Sure, why not. A couple of weeks later I have a great offer and I'll be staying here in MN.
It wasn't an easy decision to make, however, since I really do love my job and the people that I'm working with. It's just that this seems like a cool job (learning 5 new OSs) and it means that we have a direction instead of being caught in limbo. I'm going to miss the people that I used to work with, and I hate leaving them in the lurch (feeling a little guilty about that), but sometimes you just have to do what is best for you. You know?
Unfortunately, I won't be getting that 1080p projector for the basement right away because Sara is insisting that we get new carpets for the second floor. It's hard to disagree with that, the carpets were cheap 10 years ago and definitely could be replaced, but I'm a bit bummed that my 180 hours of vacation payout is going straight into carpets.
Oh well, I'm sure I'll enjoy the carpets once they're in (it's just the getting them in that will be a hassle).
Couple that with the fact that Sara has been working as a substitute teacher, but really wanting to be a full time teacher, and there was a lot of pressure to have a direction. We felt like we were stuck in limbo, not knowing if we were staying, or if we were going. After half a year, it just got to be too much.
I wanted some direction, but I wasn't finding any here in Minneapolis until a Sunday night drinking buddy said that he was going to be turning down a job offer, but he thought that I might be a good fit for them and wanted to send them my resume with his rejection letter. Sure, why not. A couple of weeks later I have a great offer and I'll be staying here in MN.
It wasn't an easy decision to make, however, since I really do love my job and the people that I'm working with. It's just that this seems like a cool job (learning 5 new OSs) and it means that we have a direction instead of being caught in limbo. I'm going to miss the people that I used to work with, and I hate leaving them in the lurch (feeling a little guilty about that), but sometimes you just have to do what is best for you. You know?
Unfortunately, I won't be getting that 1080p projector for the basement right away because Sara is insisting that we get new carpets for the second floor. It's hard to disagree with that, the carpets were cheap 10 years ago and definitely could be replaced, but I'm a bit bummed that my 180 hours of vacation payout is going straight into carpets.
Oh well, I'm sure I'll enjoy the carpets once they're in (it's just the getting them in that will be a hassle).
Getting back to it
It's been forever, or just over a year (which is forever in web time), since I've worked on my blog. Part of that has been because I've been busy (or at least I thought I was too busy), but a big part of it has been because I use this as free therapy, and there are a lot of things that I don't want everyone to know. I had coworkers, parents, one spouse (yes, I only have one) and friends reading this.
While I write mostly for my friends, and I consider many of my coworkers friends, I still can't tell them everything. And a lot of that "everything" going on lately has been my unhappiness of trying to sell my house and move to LA.
Now that I have taken a job offer for an engineering position at a local company and have given notice, I feel that I can probably get back to blogging as a cathartic exercise.
I've started this bog, mark-thecookie-jar.blogspot.com, as a way of separating my more personal blogging from my everyday blogging at mcookie.blogspot.com.
So, watch this spot for more blogging, and don't let Sara know... ;-)
While I write mostly for my friends, and I consider many of my coworkers friends, I still can't tell them everything. And a lot of that "everything" going on lately has been my unhappiness of trying to sell my house and move to LA.
Now that I have taken a job offer for an engineering position at a local company and have given notice, I feel that I can probably get back to blogging as a cathartic exercise.
I've started this bog, mark-thecookie-jar.blogspot.com, as a way of separating my more personal blogging from my everyday blogging at mcookie.blogspot.com.
So, watch this spot for more blogging, and don't let Sara know... ;-)
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