me talking out loud

Well we have finally done it. We have moved into a house. Not our final house - but a rental one. It is so nice to have my bed to sleep in.

Anyway - we decided to wait before buying a house so that things (life and money mostly) can settle down and we can take our time finding the house to buy. You know - pay attention to the little things like school districts and home owner associations and zip codes (parts of Yulee are under the Fernandina zip code)… little things.

Now if I am lucky I will be able to get the house semi-organized within the next week so that at least I know where most things are (even if they aren’t in their final resting spot) and get rid of most of the boxes and wrapping paper surrounding everything. Oh joy.

Well #phpc on freenode is at it again. This time we have cooked up a scheme to have a road trip to this springs |tek. Davey Shafik and I live pretty close together (he in the Tampa, FL area and I in the Jacksonville, FL area). So being the cheap people we are (conferences get VERY expensive very fast) agreed to carpool it to Chicago so we can both get there for the plane fair of one (it is about a 19 hour drive).

Somehow the conference comes up on the #phpc channel - who is going, who is thinking of going and who is speaking at the conference. We comment that we are car pooling it up - and poof! We have more people wanting to get in on it. At it’s height we had potentially 8 people going with us - though most ended up backing out. As it stands now, we are down to 4 (Davey, Ben Ramsey, Elizabeth Naramore and I) last I heard. It is pretty cool since we will picking up fresh meat drivers people as we go north so no one person will have to do all the driving.

I figure by the end of the road trip up and back… we will have become closer friends then we are now or will be ready to kill each other. Not quite sure which is more likely One thing is definite - we will have gotten to know each other well and isn’t that the goal of the community.