Packing For San Jose, Rest Of The World?

I’m currently in the middle of packing for a trip to San Jose for a wedding. An uncle on my mom’s side (my mom’s cousin) is getting married.

After this trip, I’ll be stopping by Cincinnati, to spend some time with family and have a trip up into Cleveland. While the Texas trip was cancelled, I still hope to have a change of venue; as in, not spending 90% of the day in front of a computer.

But what made me write this down is… due to my somewhat excessive nature to be efficient, I’ve started thinking about how to pack for a new life away from Urbana, IL. My room has never been more box-able.

I have just two months before the lease runs out. Two months and one day, to be precise. I never thought this far through in the process, because I wasn’t 100% sure where I was going. Would I be a solo developer/businessman? Or will I really go all the way and start a company with co-founders and employees?

And still, I’m not too sure. At least, I know I can stay flexible for at least the next two months. But where to go to stay just as flexible after that period?

Generating revenue would widen my options quite a bit, and I am hoping to focus more and more of my efforts into making HanMeta a reality. I know it’s a small win, but I’ll be having health insurance, starting on the 15th. I’m about 90% happy with the directory structure I have, with all of my unfinished projects and documents and such; Going for that extra 10% is not worth it. The important thing is that I know that’s not effort well spent.

Portland seems exciting. Seattle was amazing. San Francisco/San Jose seems just out of reach, but maybe this trip might change the outlook on that. And yes, all three of these options are on the West Coast. I miss it quite a bit, the Pacific.

Who knows? Maybe I’ll give up in a month, and start looking for a job. In any case, I won’t feel right without having shipped something before I do anything else.

Tired…

I feel like it’s all been a dream in the past three days. Visiting the Yahoo! campus… Just driving past Apple campus… Having a trip to San Jose completely paid for…

I’ve been told I look a little tanned. I’m uncertain how this could be, since I spent most of the day… in the tiniest room on the 2nd floor of building G, “.eu”. For some reason, all the conference rooms on that floor is named after TLDs (1st floor rooms looked like they were named after “I Love Lucy” characters).

Between you and me, dear reader, I don’t think most people who know me personally read this blog. My my, what a world they’re missing…

I hope to post the “post-interview with Yahoo!” tonight… but it might be tomorrow. Hence, this little stub of an entry will have to do for tonight.