I haven’t mentioned this until now, but I have been hired as a contractor for Google. I can’t discuss the stuff I do, but I freaking love the job… even if I could discuss it, I don’t know that I could put it into words. I am looking forward to the possibility of converting to a permanent employee down the road. Really the only differences are that I don’t get all the perks, but the experience is good enough for me.

I just moved to Atlanta, and I have stuff everywhere. This is one of those moves where your parents give you everything of yours that is in their house so it was a beast of a move. I had a couple people able to help me, but I had to load and unload a good bit of the 26′ truck. I also had some trouble with the auto transport so I have to get some money back from Uhaul for being a lame company and giving me crap.

I just moved down to Atlanta, GA…. well I am actually living right outside the perimeter in Smyrna, but close enough. I rented a 17′ Uhaul, but I was lucky and was given a 26′ truck with only a few thousand miles on it, which actually worked out great because I didn’t have to spend a ton of time making things fit.

Five miles from my house the trailer shorted out every light except for the hazards and the headlights. So I had no tail lights, no dash lights, nothing behind the cab could be seen without the hazard lights on. So then I had to wait 2 hours for someone to show up and another 1.5 for it to be fixed. So I am working on getting a refund on either the gas or the trailer all together and an extra day on top of it. Oh and I had to drive 60 miles @ 6mpg @ $3/gal to get this busted ass trailer. Break downs happen, I am not trying to dispute that, but this was pure neglect. The wires were cut and mixed up with a bunch of other wires and shorting out on each other, I’m not a mechanic or an electrician and I could and would do a better job than that.

Anyway off to unpack

It is now December 26th and in one week I will be picking up my Uhaul for my move to Atlanta. I am not going into details until I get down there, but if you are in Atlanta and like BMWs, Linux, computers in general, Windows, the gym or interested in any of those hit me up I’m looking for people to know.

That is the main reason I haven’t been writing as much, I have had interviews and had to go find an apartment and just running around getting ready. It was nice though, my friend Roger Rustad was in Atlanta for over a month on a contract so I got to hang out with him. I haven’t mentioned Roger I don’t think, but he works a lot with Nagios and is a great person to talk to. I don’t meet a lot of techies like Rog and its a damn shame because he is one you can have a real tech conversation with. He is interested in what you have to say and what you know and if you are unfamiliar with what he is discussing he can explain it well and doesn’t look down on you for not knowing.

I should also have a new article on Linux.com coming out soon on the latest Zend Studio, which is very good in my opinion.