California

After breakfast with Aditi, a nice visit with Sherv, and a lot of putzing around this weekend, I'm starting to feel much more at home, both at J's place in SF and my place in SC. My friend Keevin is down in SC this week for Intel business, so we're probably going to go climbing, and my parents decided to make a last minute trip out for Chinese New Year this weekend, so my schedule is starting to make me feel like I have a life. I recently saw that Intel has pickup soccer games at noon every day except Monday, so I'm going to have to go check those out...slowly but surely the things on my happiness checklist are getting covered. My pantry is stocked well enough that it makes me happy just looking at it. I've got polenta. eee! I do need to track down some sumac though, and hit an Indian spice market at some point.

I also just found out that there's some pretty good bouldering in downtown Berkeley, which seems rather random, but will be a good excuse to visit Sherv more. There seems to be some decent outdoor stuff everywhere in CA, disregarding the traffic and crowds, which isn't that small of a thing, but when in Rome...

I'm thinking about running a Redwoods Marathon, or a halfie. Haven't decided on that yet. First things first...start running!

I still need to get a couch, or think about getting a couch. Haven't done that yet either. Luckily, I'll never get too out of shape to sit down...

Work has been really nice. School-like, almost. I'm still in training, and probably will be for a few months, so mainly I get in, run a few simulations, look at demos, and read up on high speed electronic design engineering. The guy who is mentoring me is really nice and smart, and I don't think I could have asked for a set-up more suited to what I want/need. Although setting my own "work hours" are tough. I find myself working more at home/J's place, and taking care of personal stuff when I'm at work. Weird.

I'm working on two plans: 1 is to get F-A people out to the West Coast, and 2 is to get the '03 crowd (and whoever else wants to go) to go to the Pi Reunion. I'm excited about it, and yes I know I'm a dork. I can't help it...the thought of going dancing/clubbing with Kristin in Las Vegas makes me start bumping in my cubicle.