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Tue, 07 Feb 2012

Anchorage Days 3 and 4

Everybody Back to Work!

Sunday and Monday were kind of all mooshed together. Breakfast was the usual waffle/oatmeal/juice at the hotel. Dinner was at the Slippery Salmon again, with the Arctic Cuban Panini during the Superbowl and Chicken and Ranch Pizza on Monday night, late. Dr. Brown's Cream Soda (diet!) to wash it down.

Aside from the Superbowl and eating, I looked at two condos on Sunday. Nothing fantabulous, but they were both passable. One was just a little too expensive and one was just a little too far away from the office. 

On Monday, though, I actually met my new colleagues at GCI, including my manager there, Mark Hall. No kidding. Also, I got my desktop system set up and accounts on some development servers, got a quick walk through the datacenter (that makes my basement server closet look well organized), and then dove right into some Perl code. The day flew past at a frightening pace.

We're on a tight schedule to meet our go-live date; so everybody on the team is under some stress — but they seem like a good group. 

Then tonight I looked at one last condo. I think this is the one I've decided on. It's at the low-end of expense, but has a reasonably good vibe and is only 1.4 miles from the office. 

Time to make a decision!