Flew up to Seattle on Sunday... the weather is spectacular. It's hard to believe a place can be so beautiful when the weather is like this... just perfect... and all the green trees and the big mountains... and then I remember that it will be freezing just a short month from now.

I had all day meetings on campus on Monday but I did manage to come "home" and do about a half hour of yoga. Yesterday I opted to go out on the boat for the evening instead... the weather was too perfect not to.

On Friday afternoon I came across another job opening at big software company. Upon investigation, I discovered that someone I knew was in the group with the opening so I pinged him... and within 15 minutes he had me on the phone with the hiring manager... and, unlike the last opportunity, the guy had be fast tracked into an interview within an hour... and the process has been a whirlwind ever since with 3 recruiters contacting me and a last minute pre-screening in person interview yesterday. The pre-screening went great and it seems like it could be a good fit. It's a bit different than what I was expecting to do with my career so I'm still debating the pros and cons and I am interested in hearing what the other team members tell me about their roles and this role tomorrow during the loop.... which is 7 hours long!!!! The 7 hour interview doesn't freak me out as much as the unknown hour long presentation which I'm required to give... and which subject matter I have decks for all sitting on my nice regular machine in San Diego. So today I scrounged up a deck I had from an engagement nearly two years ago, changed the background and have decided I will just talk to the deck as best I can and totally not stress out on this whole thing.

So that's my game plan... I'm not going to recite stuff a bazillion times and try to memorize lines. I'm just going to go in with confidence that I know the subject matter and can talk to it like an intelligent person... and, if I can't, well then I shouldn't take the job anyway.

Friday night my friend Trinity and I are having a birthday party... we share the same birthday (Sunday) and it should be a fun get together with much debauchery. I've invited SUSAN and I hope she comes up... anyone else in the Seattle area -- as long as you're down with a good old college party, ping me up :>