Exodus

No updates for a while, must mean I've been busy. And I have. Most drastically, Summer employer agreed to send me on a three-week impromptu split at the Redwood City office. I had been composing to myself a long and reflective post about my ambivalent feelings about San Diego and what that send about me and law school and how I've changed over the years, and I voiced some of those thoughts at my mid-summer review. Then - BAM! - faster than a speeding blogger I got a call asking if I could start in Silicon Valley on Monday. I drove up all day yesterday and had my first day at work today back in the Bay Area.

Free advice: if you're planning a day-long road trip, do not nap on the beach the morning before you leave. A sunburned back is very uncomfortable during an eight-hour drive.

I didn't leave San Diego until 4:30 because Mike the Once and Future Management Consultant was in town for the Fourth and I had to take him down to the airport. I finally got in to Palo Alto at 12:40.

More free advice: after a long holiday weekend, get some freaking sleep before starting your new job. Man cannot live on caffeine alone.

Also, Live Free or Die Hard is better than Transformers. Transformers does have giant robots fighting, which is awesome. But it sometimes has robots talking, which is a bit less awesome. Die Hard has Bruce Willis fighting, which is awesome. But then it has Bruce Willis talking which is also awesome.

I think I could write a lot about both of those movies, but for now let me just point out one thing. You know how at the end of Transformers when Protagonist and Hot Girl are making out on the hood of his car? That car is a robot and his friend. He's hooking up on top of his friend. And then while they've having some kinky cyborg threesome, the camera pans back and you see all the other robot cars watching them, headlights shining? That's some freaky shit.