Super Cracking

The removalists come on Friday the 4th of November, I leave Melbourne at 10am on Saturday the 5th, get to Japan at 18:30 the same day, leave Japan at 17:45 on Sunday, arrive in San Francisco at 9am the same day, then start at Google 24 hours later. Hectic.

I'm sure the excitement will outweigh the killer jetlag (work starts at the equivalent of 2am Melbourne time), and thankfully my temporary accomodation is only 5km (3mi) from work, which is a nice, comfortable, 'wake me up' walking distance.

In between the farewell social engagements and finishing off my masters, I haven't had the time I would like to update MeHere, sorry about that (let's forget that I've managed to start and finish both F.E.A.R. and Quake 4 in the past few days). MeHere will probably get updated a fair bit when I'm in the US, as location-based stuff is just *so* much more useful over there.

And since I get asked: I don't have a timeframe for returning to Australia, I'm not even thinking that far ahead - unlike the H1B, the visa category I'm on lets me renew every two years indefinitely but I'm not allowed to apply for a green card. So it's not like I'm leaving forever.

My extra-cute-yet-evil younger brother Dene has just hit 16 and each time I see him from now on it's going to be like "omfg!11!eleven1 u r tall" ... I'm going to miss him like crazy.