Sam's Blog

Pending......

Well... It's exciting and, at the same time, a little sad... Our house went pending sale today!! The past couple of weeks have been a roller coaster as we're entertaining offers and other opportunities. That, coupled with my non-stop work schedule, made things just crazy around here. I don't know if Lisa and I finally came to a mutual understanding of each other's stresses and contributions lately or if we're just plain tired but we've been able to keep things at a pretty even keel thus enabling each of us to focus on our respective areas of influence (which, if you haven't been paying attention, is the house sale and moving for Lisa and the new job for me...). Anyway, this puts our move in motion. The next things are planning the move, finding a temporary place to live, and preparing our belongings (packing, DVD player for the kids, tearing down the gym, moving my stuff, etc....). The goosebumps are forming....

This all is a little anticlimactic though... There were some other opportunities that we were looking at that would have kept us a little closer to family and friends. Those were longshots that didn't pan out though so it's not like we weren't prepared.

WORK
I spent the last couple of days in Fremont at our NOC. Funny, but as busy as I think I am every day, I'm even more busy whenever I'm in Seattle or Fremont - non-stop takes on a whole new meaning. We had a lot of good meetings on processes and operational items and a couple of bombs on the hiring front. I'm too exhauste dto worry about it all now though....

HOTEL
I stayed in an Extended Stay ___ hotel overnight while in Fremont. Now, I remember this chain as a Residence Inn type place - clean, mini-suites that are little home-away-from-home type places. Nope. This place was a dump. The carpet was filthy, the couch and chair looked like something you picked up at a dump, there were visible fill spots on the wall (looks like they used wood putty on a painted white wall...), and there was the obligatory mildew in the shower and on the shower curtain.... Definitely off my list of places to stay (until we're on our two-day trip to Seattle that is....)....

Quote of the day
I'm too tired to look up a quote of the day.....

posted by Sam @ 8:01 PM