When it rains, it implodes – a week of news

Last night was a traumatic affair, but more of that later.

The real buzz in town this week (if you haven’t seen) is that I have put in my notice with ThinkGeek. After nearly five years, I’ve been offered an opportunity that after much crunching, wife and I agree is the right move. Next stop: Imgur! (NSFW possible warning if you aren’t familiar with the site and plan on peeking while at the office). Imgur is based out of San Francisco, which begs the obvious question – will we be moving?

Yes, eventually. In the short term, I will be working remotely (minus a trip to San Francisco the week of the 9th of June), with the goal of moving the family west as the next school year (2014-2015) comes to an end. Why wait? Because we are already locked into contracts for that year 🙂 Plus, time to try and at least spruce up the house a little bit. This has been brewing for almost a month now, which astute readers will realize matches up with when the blog started becoming a ghost town. I can only hope and work towards giving the blog – and you all – some attention again.

In other news, Kim spent many hours last night bailing water in the kitchen as the dishwasher became a non-stop waterfall. Everything was stopped eventually, but not before we took some water damage in the kitchen. The nice guy that came out today to do the initial drying then made a series of discoveries on the history of our kitchen. It was like watching Schliemann uncover Troy in there.

There are layers upon layers upon layers. I think we counted at least 4 layers before he discovered part of the kitchen actually still had hard tiles underneath it all, and the other part still had hardwood floors. The final toll is that there is some minimal damage and we have two giant industrial dehumidifiers that will be running as white noise machines for the next three or four days. Then we get to deal with whoever is next in the parade for fixing the damage caused by the guy that came through to dry it all out. On the upside, 13+ years of paying for homeowner’s insurance and we’ve never made a claim (probably should have at least once), so this should even that score.

Those are the big things. Further posts on writing and such to come 🙂