Today is my 10 year anniversary of being a Hubski member. Long time. A lot has happened in that time. I have easily spent more time on this website than any other over that stretch. Big ups to mk for making this place. I had the good fortune to help out in a rotating group of 4 or 5 of us who used to try to help keep the lights on here. Met a lot of good people that way, including some intense relationships that are and were very meaningful to me outside of the internet, some of which faded away and some of which were soured by my sometimes inept social abilities. Though I regret that the activity on the site isn't what it once was, it's a great community nonetheless.
I accepted a new job, with a new company. I’ve worked for my current employer in five different roles in the last 6.25 years, and it’s a bittersweet ending for me. It’s going to mean moving away from a city I love, and that’s stressful because the move needs to happen sooner rather than later, and the rental market is also insane in the area I’m moving to. Not having the most fun this week.
Congrats! I'd love to hear about your change and what made you decide to make the change. I've been at my company for seventeen years but have an interview Friday. I told a good friend that if I get the job offer she has to make me take it. I'm just on average pretty unhappy.
Congratulations on the new role, in any case. Whereabouts are you moving to?
My wife bought this tile from Greece: Hubski centaur. I cancelled some upcoming business travel and a annual friend get together in NYC due to Covid. I don't want to bring it home with me. It wasn't an easy decision, but it feels like the right one. I wish my wife wanted to move to the countryside as much as I do.
It's past midnight and I should be in bed, but I can't miss this opportunity to make the first post of this week's thread. Melbourne is back under lockdown and I am back to working from home. I appear to be better at getting some of my own writing done this time around, compared to the previous major lockdown last year. I have rediscovered Cinderella, specifically Long Cold Winter, and The Tea Party, specifically Fire in the Head. Our cat Claude is curled up on the armchair beside me. I am considering applying for a job that would entail moving to Sydney.
I am detecting a theme of moving house/moving work in this Hubski. I also am at week 2 of my new job/week 4 of the new apartment. So far things are so much better than before, but it’s still a new place and the wife and I need to make some local connections.
I think a lot of people overall took the opportunity of the pandemic to re-evaluate their life, where they are, and where they want to be and are taking advantage of the opportunity. It helps we're a mostly wealthy, educated, upper class website who has resources to do such shenanigans.
I'm mostly moved in at this point. Couch is coming in a week, new washer/dryer Saturday (big shout-out to dent/scratch stores for getting me about 40% off for a little dent in the front), but beyond that I got a great kitchen table set for $85, bed is here, and and the place looks really nice. Small, but very cozy. Balcony faces directly east which is great for morning sun and evening coolness and it makes the plants very happy. I started a sourdough starter and it failed try #1 so I'm on attempt #2 now. Got a PiHole set up as well and what a great thing that is. It's blocked about about 50% of queries so far. It's super hot and humid down here these days. Bigly not a fan of it. Orientation started Monday. Had yesterday off and have today off as well. Tomorrow, Friday, and Monday I have things and Tuesday is off again, then classes start next Wednesday. Already have a small assignment due the 29th. 500 word maximum essay on what you want to do, but it also requires 5 sources in that small of a paper. It's going to be a headache putting all that together. Let me explain what I want to do, why do I need sources to explain where my interests lie? But whatever. As my grandmother said, I can do anything for two years. Met a few people in my program who seem pretty cool. Wide array of interests. It'll be great to get all the different perspectives. Lots of peace corps/ameri-corps/teach for America people as well which they'll bring great global perspective. All in all I'm excited to be learning and meeting people and dreading the workload. Woke up and went on my first run in a long time this morning. Managed a mile and a half in about 20 minutes. Pleasantly surprised as I didn't think I'd last that long. I felt like I could have kept going, but didn't want to push myself too hard on the first run in probably a year or so, so I called it and stopped. I don't know if I'm just going to do running or if I'm actually going to hit the campus gym and work on other parts of my body. Still not sure I'll feel comfortable in a gym these days. And numbers around here are quite high. On the bright side the university is requiring vaccination and has 95+% of population vaccinated, including staff, faculty, and students. So that's pretty sweet. The dean of the school of public health during his introduction speech said campus is probably the safest place in the state.
Welp. My rugby event went off excellently this weekend. 43 teams, 120 games on three fields, 2 days, 600+ players, and about 2k fans. Everyone was pretty thrilled with the event as a whole, and new teams took the trophies. We had about 6 weeks to plan this. Over 100 volunteers. And the entire event was filmed and streamed online, with full professional commentary from Olympians and USA Eagles players, as well as MLR luminaries. It was quite an extraordinary thing to be a part of. Now I'm downloading the 50 gig video files (ten of them) so I can chop them up into individual matches and get them posted to The Rugby Network and YouTube. Gonna be a few minutes, I tell ya! Especially since I set the biggest part of the download to happen last night after I went to bed ... and we had a power outage from 2:AM to about 9:AM, that corrupted all of the files... so I need to do it all over again. Sheesh. Oh. And I have a day job, too.
I've been binging on PBS Eons on YouTube. This stuff is great. https://www.youtube.com/eons