A month goes by and I barely even look at the blog. Madness. (If only; as is well-known by now, this kind of outage is nothing exceptional.)

At least this time I have an excuse (an excuse almost everyone realspace knows about by now, but for the benefit of those mystery readers, I shall explain).

Oh. I had a technical interview over the phone today for a job. I think it went fairly well.

— Me, a month ago

It turns out it did. On the 1st of June I had two in-person interviews at TDS Telecom in Madison, and on the 4th, I was given a job offer which I merrily accepted. So that’s it, all of a sudden, I’m working for the Man, and even worse, a telecom.

I kid, of course, it’s been a hell of a lot of fun so far, and it’s a really great environment with a bunch of bright people. TDS, in part an ISP (obviously, my gig is doing various software support and product development), is a very multi-headed beast, and it shows — in two weeks I’ve been bounced around to webmail, web portal, and DHCP server projects. It’s kind of amazing watching all the projects come together; even in my department, there are projects upon projects, a hydra with its heads going in all directions, yet it is obvious it is still one unit, with the body in control. Definitely a shift from the university work in the past. Every day there is another crisis, another problem that needs to be solved immediately, and the floor is almost always a miniature human beehive — people flying from cubicle to cubicle, engineer to engineer, angry buzzing made into phones while talking to uncooperative vendors, and always a sense of urgency.

So that’s been the working life. I’m two weeks in, and three weeks into the other big time consuming event: moving to Madison. As it turned out, both the Rutzes and the Schucks were moving into new homes and were welcoming roommates, and I went with the Schucks so as to stay out of the Rutzes’ married life hair. Maybe the Ultimate Gaming Table helped.

Yup. Here I am. New job, new city, new income, roommates, a couple new projects on the side. The blog had to suffer. Hopefully, it needn’t for much longer.

Other things on the calendar: I’m going to run a Star Wars: Saga Edition game soon, I’m going to see Tool on the 4th, and one of these weeks, we’ll finish that Ultimate Gaming Table.

And one last note, some crazy PHP accelerator module was loaded on my hosting and just activated by me, so you may see a more responsive incorporeal.org, and hopefully you will not see any problems.