I haven’t been completely happy with myself lately.
I am happy with my life in general, and external things. In fact, let me preface this post by saying that I’m happy with my wife, my friends and my family. Even my job is pretty good despite the oncoming layoffs which I hopefully won’t be subjected to, but you never know.
I mainly see my intellectual and physical development hasn’t been where I’d like, despite an urge to advance in both areas (i.e. in more simplified terms I’m getting dumber and fatter).
This post isn’t meant to be a downer… my hope is I can improve on each of these aspects one by one. I think it’s completely natural to have peaks and troughs in terms of personal development. I think it’s when I identify a low that I make valiant efforts at trying to improve myself. Let’s see how things go.
I’ll attempt to post more details. One of the things I want to do is keep a better journal of my life, be it a blog or otherwise… it seems to be what all the cool kids are doing … or were doing 
Katie and I are “officially” moving to California. A lot of people have been asking questions about this, so I’ll try to create a FAQ:
- Why are you moving?
-
- Short answer:
- I got a job at Yahoo!/Delicious
- Long answer:
-
I work on the symfony project a framework that makes building quality web sites easier. I will be contributing to this project in a way that is beneficial to Yahoo!. Furthermore, Katie and I are looking for an adventure. Moving out of our home in Minneapolis and into a new part of the country will be a big adjustment for us.
- Where in California are you moving?
- We are moving to the San Francisco Bay area. We will find a place when we arrive. We will likely be in Mountain View or if we can find some place affordable, the City of San Francisco.
- When are you moving?
- We are moving in early November. I start my job in mid-November.
- That’s really soon?
- Yes! I know!
- What will you do with your house?
- We own a duplex, we’ll rent out the half we live in. We’re also finishing up our attic as I type. Initially our good friends Marc and Sadie will live here.
- What about your cats?
- We are not sure. They will eventually join us in California, but we are not sure if they will come with us right away in November, or later.
- You’re going to have a going away party?
- Of course, just email me
- What about your car/bikes?
-
Car is being shipped to CA. We bike a lot and intend to do so in California, so we’ll be moving our bikes as well.
- Are you excited?
- Yes.
- What is Katie going to do?
-
We will be getting an apartment that has a pool. I can only imagine she will spend her days making daiquiris sitting by the pool.
