So looks like there has been a change of plans.

Yep, looks like a change of scenery for me. I resigned my position at Rumsey Engineers today. I was only there a month or so but that is long enough to know that it's not a good fit for me. My boss was beyond quirky (he stole food off my plate when we went to lunch on my second interview!), the office was dead quiet most of the time with engineers staring at their computers all day, and I could have done my job 4 times over in one day. It was located in Oakland and I got burn out quickly commuting across the bay only to work at a job that wasn't challenging or very dynamic. Soooo... I didn't want to waste their time and my time if it wasn't going to be a good fit.

I feel like I have really been in some different situations so far in my career and it's interesting how much of an impact your career decisions have on the rest of your life. Of course it has an impact because you spend so much time there but the choices you make and the challenges that you take also set the stage for how you chose to live your life in the long run also. The hard road is kind of a pain but it also offers the greatest rewards.

Scott is in New Jersey this week for training, he'll be back Friday and then we're going to a Blues Festival in the park near our house - which should be pretty cool. I start guitar lessons on Monday so hopefully I'll be able to serenade people when they come visit : )

Awww shucks... they are growing up!

(we bought 4 of the 6 pieces - the ones with the red X we didn't buy)

Well Scott and I have reached a milestone in our life. We bought our first piece of "adult" furniture yesterday. "Adult furniture" is categorized by several things
a) It is not made of particle board and does not require the purchaeser to assemble it.
b) It does not "conveniently" fold up and go in a closet only to reappear when your having a party.
c) It was not previosuly owned by your brother, mother, grandma, a friend of a friend, etc.
d) You like it for reasons other than the fact that it was free.

Soooo... we bought a sofa at Macys. It's a dark brown leather sofa. It's a sectional that is divided into individual pieces so we thought that's perfect because we can change it and move it around depending on the space we live in. So this isn't a news flash and I don't know if anyone other than Scott or myself will be all that interested in the fact that we bought a new sofa but I thought I would post this more for the occasion than the subject.

Insomnia... so pics - as promised!

This is a picture of the street we live on. Note there are no crazy people wandering around in this picture or cars being broken into so this is on a good day. : )

Doesn't Scott just look like a married man these days? Maybe it's the polo shirt or the big grin on his face. In either case, I thought this was a good pic of him up in the swallowed clouds of Marin.

Up in the Marin headlands a little bit past the Golden Gate Bridge.

The triumphs and pitfalls of the city life

Pop quiz: What is missing from this picture???

Ding ding ding - if you said a cd player you are correct. The jalapi was broken into either Wednesday or Thursday night and a few things were stolen. They broke out a window and stole the radio and our emergency kit bag which actually had a lot of stuff in it.

In hindsight, we should have removed the face plate from the radio but I don't think that would have done much since it seems they tried to steal the car too - since the ignition was broke. So that's a bummer and I was not too pleased when I went to the car in the a.m. and found broken out glass everywhere. It's like a violation of your privacy. I also found it kind of ironic that they stole the cd player and the emergency kit but left the cds that we had in there. I guess they didn't like our taste in music.

The past week was pretty brutal - highlights included getting off on the wrong subway station and wandering around downtown SF lost looking for the bus stop for the "dirty 30 bus". This is bus number 30 that we've coined the "dirty 30" because it's a pretty hairy bus ride to get to downtown since the bus goes through Chinatown. So the Chinese folks are pretty accustomed to smashing their faces against each other and breathing on each other and there are lots of them and they are all old with canes. SOOOOO.... you are supposed to give up your seat on the bus for the old folks - which leaves you standing in the aisle of the bus doing your best to remain upright while people all around you are speaking foreign languages and cramming in.

This left me with the goal to find an alternate bus - which there are a few. So now we are learning what buses to take when - and the price you'll pay. I also found it funny that they don't announce the stops on the BART (Bay area subway). They just stop and everyone shuffles in and shuffles out and I am left thinking "is this Powell or Montgomery?" so I get off and then say to myself "damn - wrong stop". This is all of importance because it's actually easier and a bit nicer to just hop on transit to get to work instead of driving. We're still working the kinks out of that whole scene.

We've been enjoying the awesome September weather here. It's been sunny and nice most days and we have been to the beach every weekend we can. We both have wetsuits now and I bought a boogie board and we have fins that we bought on our honeymoon so we've been boogie boarding and bodysurfing and having a blast. As you can see by the picture on the left... I found a new use for my ASRC "rain backpack" : )

love you all! We're up and running with internet at home so I promise we'll post more pics and tales of the craziness in SF.