Martian Intuition

On December 9th, after over twelve-years living in Austin, ten of them working as a pro web developer, I accepted a web dev position in San Francisco with Scout Labs. January 7th I start the job: front-end Ruby on Rails web development.

The company's product, the Scout, already received a revealing write-up by TechCrunch. The possibilities of the Scout are just beginning, and I'm ecstatic to become part of the team building this phenomenally useful tool.

Over the past three days, I visited the city to hunt for an apartment, when ideally I would be wrapping up my life in Austin. With little time to ponder the possibilities, much less explore and find vacancies in the neighborhoods of SF, I homed-in on the SOMA/South Beach area. SOMA gives me walking proximity to the new office, the Embarcadero, Whole Foods, & many public transit possibilities (Caltrain & Muni blocks away; BART Powell Station a 15-minute walk away). My beloved bicycle, already my primary transit in Austin, now becomes my only personal vehicle.

Thanks to a reference from a friend, I found an ideal one-bedroom with a view & quickly decided to take it.

Now here I am, flying back to Texas for two short weeks of project-wrapping, car-selling, move-out-prepping, traveling to Dallas for family Christmas, & saying "see ya later" to many loved friends & beautiful connections.

California, here I come!