When I moved to Pennsylvania 8 years ago I didn’t really have any kind of attachment to the area, but 8 years is a long time and over these past few weeks I came to realize how deep I had sunk my roots in here. It’s been painful to pull them up for the move, I am really going to miss it here. MJ has family here so he comes back to visit, so at least I’ll have those trips back here with him.
Saturday was spent home packing, as the snowstorm blanketed the area in about 20 inches of snow. I packed up just about everything I could and still live here for another week. The snow also managed to do a number on the flat roof of the building I live in, leaving my neighbors with a considerable amount of water damage (wet vacs and emergency repairs all day on Monday!) and my own apartment with minor leaks in the kitchen. The roof was fixed today, just in time for another 18-24″ of snow to hit the area tonight and tomorrow, they should be back to replace the drywall in the ceiling on Thursday or Friday. All this snow has been fun, it’s quite a nice send-off before I move out to snowless San Francisco.
This afternoon I went to the vet to get health certificates for the cats so they could fly, and I’ve worked out an arrangement with a friend in San Francisco to pick up my cats in case there are unexpected complications with our flights on Tuesday.
I went to my last PLUG meeting before the move on Wednesday at USP, Tor project leader Roger Dingledine came and presented a talk he titled Tor: Anonymous Communications for the Dept of Defense…and you. It was a really great talk, and we let him run almost an hour over his time to answer questions and get through all his slides. The technology of Tor is interesting unto itself, but I found myself even more taken with the effort being put in to diversifying the pool of anonymous users, from working with the Department of Defense to get military using Tor, to human rights activists, to FBI agents. Tonight we ended up cancelling PLUG North due to the snow, a decision I’m whole-heartedly standing behind given the quarter inch of snow which was already on the ground here in Pottstown by 7PM, but it’s sad that I won’t have “one last PLUG North meeting” before I go.
MJ is flying in Saturday, so this weekend starts the move and Tuesday we’re flying out. I have about a million things to do before then…
Wednesday, Feb 10th, 2010 at 4:13
Good luck Pleia… what an adventure!
I don’t know why, but I’m excited for you and MJ.
Snow-less winter? An un-white Christmas?
Nooooo…. oh wait, considering the conditions suffered here over the winter, traffic delays, Artic conditions and having a cold, versus a mild, free flowing and relatively -easy-on-the-immune system winter… I guess it doesn’t sound to bad.
I’d want to live there purely to visit the filming locations of the Dirty Harry films…
Bon Voyage!