{"id":430,"date":"2011-03-29T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T01:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2011-03-29T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T01:20:09","slug":"update-since-last-post-far-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"update since last post, far too long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been far too long since my last update, but I did keep people posted when I got the results of the scan and they were clean.\u00a0 I think part of why I didn&#8217;t really post was I was afraid I&#8217;d start thinking and then puss out on moving, so I haven&#8217;t posted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in Seattle area for about a month now.\u00a0 Seems cool, I got here in Feb and the grass <!--more-->was green if that tells you anything about how much better the weather is here vs. IL in the winter!\u00a0 It snowed a little once over night and it melted the next day, otherwise just been rain.\u00a0 It&#8217;s rained at least some most days but it hasn&#8217;t been very hard.\u00a0 Only once was I kinda wet after walking to the car and a store and back in the rain, otherwise it&#8217;s hasn&#8217;t really mattered that it was raining and basically wait 10 to 30 mins and it will probably not be raining anymore.\u00a0 As for how cold it&#8217;s been, I&#8217;ve only worn a hooded sweatshirt around and only been outside and felt like I needed slightly more than that once.\u00a0 So ya, not missing Chicagoland weather at all!\u00a0 heh.<\/p>\n<p>I went through a southern route, which took 24 extra hours of driving because the locks on my car sometimes freeze and I can&#8217;t lock or unlock them.\u00a0 Also, I only had to stay in a hotel two nights because I knew people to stay with on that route, so it wasn&#8217;t too bad.\u00a0 Also, got to hang out with some people I hadn&#8217;t seen in a while and there daughter that I hadn&#8217;t seen in like 15 years or something!\u00a0 Was real cool to see them and ended up spending like a week and a half or two weeks with them instead of just a night, heh.\u00a0 the route was pretty madness though, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=libertyville,+il&amp;daddr=gardner,+KS+to:Liberal,+KS+to:Albuquerque,+New+Mexico+to:surprise,+az+to:bakersfield,+ca+to:palo+alto,+ca+to:sacramento,+ca+to:eugene,+or+to:Renton,+WA&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=FUcwhQIdFvHB-ilTbdWv2JYPiDHAJjexlLUKBw%3BFdk0UAIdrYZX-inDfpUebqPAhzGZfhMx7m6otA%3BFYk7NQIdWRH8-SkNHkoWgRMIhzGIHqRnMftEmA%3BFctYFwId_6Gk-Sl7gwnT3QoihzH99tm4zvjTwA%3BFbtKAQIdEvpM-Smjck-cRFArhzGyLeVMIAjRAw%3BFezAGwIdKOvn-CkNy5S5yGvqgDHIdP6YCQw2WQ%3BFVtROwId1D64-Ck5HLqde7CPgDHPdvU1UvUfDg%3BFUS1TAIdgCTC-Cn5l4OycsaagDHbfxl0qmofkg%3BFWUuoAIdXtip-CkZGVCssBnBVDFNiUNKiWHsVw%3BFf6H1AIdlh23-Ckjb7sDzAiQVDGfu7oWR7JCzQ&amp;mra=ls&amp;sll=37.857507,-107.753906&amp;sspn=17.4212,39.506836&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=41.738528,-111.357422&amp;spn=16.477889,39.506836&amp;z=5\">here it is<\/a> (oh, and didn&#8217;t spend the night in Palo Alto, just had dinner with a friend)  Ended up seeing some pretty cool stuff.  Will probably make a post about that later.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, like I said the area seems pretty cool, kinda have every store or food style real close.  Haven&#8217;t gone looking for a Chinese place but I did find a real good Mexican place, I was kinda worried they wouldn&#8217;t have enough of a Mexican population to have real Mexican food but my buddy goes to a sit down restaurant that good and I found a little hole in the wall place that&#8217;s real good too.  So at least the most important of food is covered locally. \ud83d\ude1b\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t found a job but haven&#8217;t been looking in earnest for very long, kinda settled in first so it wasn&#8217;t such a shock to my system.\u00a0 The recruiter I&#8217;ve talked to said tech is heating up and I should be able to find something decently quick, so here&#8217;s to hoping that&#8217;s the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been far too long since my last update, but I did keep people posted when I got the results of the scan and they were clean.\u00a0 I think part of why I didn&#8217;t really post was I was afraid I&#8217;d start thinking and then puss out on moving, so I haven&#8217;t posted. 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