The big news, a week late

Finally, finally, I got myself a full-time gig out here in San Francisco. Last week, a German e-commerce company called asknet offered me a job. I gladly accepted and start in a week. The company specializes in setting up online "shopping carts" for clients, both front-end and back-end. I'll be working as a point of contact between clients and developers, bringing to bear my intimidating copy editing skills, my well-honed QA abilities, and my journalism-crafted knack for talking on the phone.

By far the best perk is that the development team works in Germany, so in January I'll be heading overseas to the town of Karlsruhe to meet everyone and brush up on the tech stuff. Then, when I get back, the SF office is conveniently located two miles (and three subway stops) from my new apartment.

The apartment would be the little news of late, I guess. For the second time in less than three months, Amanda and I had to uproot everything and find/move in to a new place. We were subletting from this crazy woman, and how that ended is a long, kinda boring, story for some other time. But it's over, and now we live in a pricey studio literally across the street from Amanda's work. Seriously, you can see the side of her store from our kitchen window. Can't beat that commute.

All this stuff, plus what I've been doing for the last three months, deserves more details and more photos. But my camera's been in the shop for over a month and counting right now. My desktop (with photo archive) is still boxed up from the move. And, as Seemay once perfectly put it, the last six weeks of hustling for a job have made me completely sick of talking about myself. Hopefully with things settled down and the future finally secure, I can get back to the hobbies I've neglected.