{"id":250,"date":"2005-08-04T01:01:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T08:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/03\/goings-on-meeting-eating-and-grinding\/"},"modified":"2005-08-04T01:02:15","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T08:02:15","slug":"goings-on-meeting-eating-and-grinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/04\/goings-on-meeting-eating-and-grinding\/","title":{"rendered":"Goings on, meeting, eating and grinding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I had a great meal with an old<\/strike> new friend Barry and his wife. in February I had sent out an email request, asking for people to help me consider if I should move to San Francisco. He responded but I never ended up having time to meet him. Well now I did! The both of them are pretty great. And the meal was wonderful as well!<\/p>\n

When we were at dinner I asked, as I do most of the time if the bartender has any drinks that have umbrellas of them. In all the time that I had lived in New Jersey, not a single bar or restaurant had umbrellas. Well, the very first time that I asked for one in San Francisco, I got one! I’m in the right place.<\/p>\n

I told you that I wasn’t going to be welding because I didn’t have enough experience. Corbett just gave me a call and I’m going to be doing some only slightly less glamorous grinding of metal tonight and tomorrow at NIMBY<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The job is going well.<\/p>\n

Things are going well!<\/p>\n

update 1:33pm<\/strong> The company is springing for a snazzy laptop for me. They love me. They really love me.<\/p>\n

I’m sure the joy will wear off when I go somewhere on vacation and then get\/have to log in and do some work in the evening. But no matter, I’m giddy with happiness. I’ve never had a good laptop.<\/p>\n

update 11pm<\/strong> Grinding went very well. Great space. Great project. Great people. I’m learning too. I saw and met some good people… I’m just terrible with names… there’s the guy who happily bought me a beer from the soda<\/strike>beer machine, Daniel, a couple other guys, the 2 folks building a 20′ Ganesh, Zack and Corbett and some nice guy named Larry.. we talked for a while… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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