Take off! To the great white north!

[sauergeek]

OK, so it's not all the way to the Great White North. More like, about halfway there from where I am now.

I gave my notice at AOL on Tuesday. My last day there is 8/31. I took a job at KSR (website remarkably content-free at the moment). This will allow me to move back to the Boston area.

I will be shopping for places to live in September. With luck, I will be back in Massachusetts by November.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Ah, not Kendall Square Research, I did think they were very dead :)

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

No, but one of the guys responsible for starting KSR used to work for them -- and took the domain name in lieu of part of his salary when they were going under.

[andrewfeland.livejournal.com]

Hey, their CTO looks familiar---big guy, beard, maybe wears sandals?

Tell him I said hi. :-)

Congrats! If I'm still working in Cambridge come November, then there should be b33r. Where is KSR's Boston office located?

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Their CTO does look remarkably familiar. As does one of their now-tech guys -- significant Boston accent, scrawny, dark hair, Republican...

KSR does not have a Boston office. Like everyone else in New England, I'll be working from home.

[andrewfeland.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

But beer? I'm good for beer.

[murph-grrl.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Come watch Michigan games!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

I like this idea.

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

Wanna buy my condo? :)

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

And laereth says "YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!", but she's under an avalanche of kittens right now and can't reach a computer.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

...two kittens counts as an avalanche? Or did you somehow acquire an entire mountainside of kittens? (And how do they fit in your apartment, if so?)

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Only if it is in Lowell.

[jiapa.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[tcb.livejournal.com]

congrats!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[jtidwell.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool! It'll be great to see you again!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Likewise! Though it will be decidedly odd seeing you with a kid...

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

We'll miss you. ...and your little dog, too!

And "going-away party" is as good an excuse for lots of drinking and setting things on fire as I've heard lately, so I'll start getting that together.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Drinking and burning stuff. Excellent!

[snolan.livejournal.com]

We'll definitely miss you.

Fire and beer... hmmm
please include me!

Any chance we can come visit once you are safely ensconced amongst the landed gentry (or at least a tenant in good standing)?

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Once I'm settled in, sure, visitors welcome! I hope to have a housewarming party; I'll post it here if/when I do.

[xinie.livejournal.com]

Damn, you already took a job! I was hoping you'd come be my "manny."

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Er... do I want to know what this would have involved?

[geoffroi.livejournal.com]

welcome back to boston!

looking to buy a house? a friend of mine is selling his place in malden...

[geoffroi.livejournal.com]

Err, Melrose, not Malden.

I think I'm dizzy from driving the miata around NHIS all day today :-)

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Nice way to get dizzy.

I am looking for a house, but I'm looking further north. Right now I have sights set on Lowell.

[siderea]

Wow! Congrats! Welcome back!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[xeger.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo!!! Road trip!!!

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for HIM you'll road-trip.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

You do realize it's about as far from Toronto to Boston, as it is from Toronto to DC, right?

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

My. What a spookily familiar name.
It'll be good to have you back around…

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

I suspect, though, that it is just KSR, and stands for nothing at all. Or perhaps it remains Kendall Sysadmin Recovery.

Thanks!

[andrewfeland.livejournal.com]

Ah, they just wanted an excuse to use up all the old KSR stationery. :-)

[bouncingleaf.livejournal.com]

Congrats and good luck! And yay!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[bookly.livejournal.com]

Yay! Want to have coffee sometime when I'm in town?

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Sure, sounds good! I'll post again once I'm settled in.