The jury trial has been, well, tiring. Who knew listening to all that testimony, fingerprints and police officers, he said, she said, objection, sustained, overruled, yada yada.. could be so tiring. Fortunately, it appears the two week trial will get cut short and the jury will get the case to decide on Monday afternoon. In what is completely frustrating, I am an alternate juror so after spending 5 days of my life listening to this case, I don't even get to have my say in the outcome. Monday we hear closing arguments and then the first 12 jurors decide a young man's fate.

I can only tell you 90 days after what happened and what I think the outcome should have been.

Due to the trial, I have been unable to do any yoga... between getting kids to school, catching a train, getting the dog walked and dinner on the table, there simply isn't time... so I've been running. Not far but far enough to feel the hips tighten and to at least break a nice sweat (and give my toes some serious blisters because, it appears, my feet have changed over the the last year or so). The dog is enjoying the little jogs and passes out on the cold tile as soon as I get her home.

In much more exciting news, I have accepted a position with a Big Software Company. It was a great offer.... requiring me to be in Redmond 50% of the time at least initially and also requiring international travel!!! I'm sorta excited about that part -- one of the guys is heading to India next month followed by Dubai and I think he recently went to Japan and Italy or something. It will take me a number of months to be prepared for one of those trips but hopefully I'm a quick learner. I'm somewhat nervous because I think this job will challenge me. It will definitely require me to get out the study books and learn some things I know absolutely nothing about and become an "expert" in them asap. This role is completely void of "development" -- writing no code for the first time in my life is going to be a hurdle to get over I think.

Step 2 is to get an actual car in Seattle. I have investigated lease assumption websites and found two possibilities... I'm being very specific in that I only want a 6-9 month lease so the dollar amount per month is going to be more than I would ideally like. The only cars I can seem to find are Mercedes which I'm not fond of but will have to investigate anyway. The sooner I can get my own car, the sooner I can setup some type of schedule and get into a groove of yoga in Seattle too.

I start my new career on September 29th. A fast track interview and a fast track starting date as they are trying to get me in before a big group-wide meeting the first of the month.

So, wish me luck... this is the first step of getting stability back... a solid grounding from which to grow and change my life.