I've created a journal over there, same user name.

I had a pretty good Arisia, all told. Did a lot of hanging out in the lobby and reading, talking with people who wanted to talk when they came by, saw the masquerade, got to a friend's party for the last time (they are not returning to Arisia for their own reasons), saw friends I haven't seen in days, weeks, months and years and all was good ( Read more... )

May 2013 be a better year for us all.

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This is pretty much spot-on:
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I have received a job offer for the position of Technical Support Engineer from Pegasystems and have accepted it. My first day will be Monday, Nov. 26 at their Cambridge office (located between Lechmere and Kendall squares ( Read more... )

May the year to come be filled with new accomplishments, success and joy!

We're in Chicago, have hotel room and con badges. We've seen a few people and had dinner. I've started a pile with Larry Smith, Bookpusher.

I slept poorly last night and am still apparently not at 100%, so I'm probably going to crash Real Soon Now, ahf may go wander parties.

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We're in Ohio, barely.

Yay.

Sleep.

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Not by coming down with a "systemic viral infection" that caused extremely painful intestinal cramping.

I spent yesterday night in the hospital, being released in the wee hours (~2am).

However, I feel fine now and we will be leaving for Chicago soon, a few hours later than we had planned but we're still going.

On Friday, I was contact by a person working for Insight Global, a staffing agency. He wanted to set up a meeting between myself and one of their local people, a formal "meet and greet" today at 2:30 in the afternoon at their "downtown Boston" office. I was promised an email confirmation of the call and it was requested that I reply with a clean ( Read more... )