survived WWDC

Sorry for the relative quiet. The good news is, I survived the product launch of the Mac Pro that happened at WWDC. The bad news is, it took a bunch of really long days because we were crunching to be ready right down to the hairy nubs. It’s that perfect spot, where you can’t quite decide if you love the adrenalin more than you hate the stress. (hint: I’ve finally voted on hating the stress).

I was pretty much a zombie by thursday, but I took most of the weekend off and life looks a lot better. Even better, my new mini arrived, so I spent part of the weekend rewiring the office to replace the G5 tower with the new box (Intel, of course).

(what, you think I’d suddenly run off and start buying Dell?)

The Job search continues. Four more weeks at Mama Apple (although I hope to ake one of them as vacation); Laurie and I are now planning on heading out of town once that’s over for a couple of weeks or so; it’ll be nice to not have to heavily structure a trip around “be back by” dates, or even whether here’s wi-fi in the hotel. We’re going to do something we’ve wanted to do for a while, which is head off onto the islands (probably salt spring) for a few days to explore. the current plan is to spend time in Victoria and Seattle, and skip Vancouver (sigh. by extending my time to mid-september, I’m going to miss out on Raven Travelling; I did get the book, however, and it’s quite good — if you’re going to be in vancouver, see the exhibition!), and head home via the coast spending some time in cannon beach; I might put a night in in Astoria, since it’s a town I want to explore a bit. we’ll see.

Depending on how work (or non-work) goes, I’m going to try to get a week in at Yellowstone before it snows to get some serious photography in. and I’d love to get back to yosemite for the fall colors. we’ll see.

A couple of company’s I’ve talked to have really intrigued me; my intent wasn’t to take something unless it seemed perfect until January, but I’m finding I”m tempted by a couple of options that are in the mix.

this search has had me thinking — I took my first job at age 12, delivering newspapers. Since that time, the longest I’ve been unemployed is six weeks. Even in high school, I did something; many times, I had a couple of gigs, plus school, plus athletics, plus other school stuff (school newspaper, speech, theater, whatever). Great training for my current life…

Best line in any of the interviews in the last week: “you’ve been at Apple for 18 years? That’s like 4 lifetimes in silicon valley time”.

And I don’t regret any of it — but some days, I sure feel like I’m that old..

oh, boy, 1AM. off to sleep… hopefully, this week is a week to catch up on blogging, since I sure didn’t last week… Lots to talk about, and maybe even stuff worth the electrons to publish with…

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