I was driving through a big city, in a parking lot in a multilayer industrial area. It was hilly, and it felt unzoned. I parked my car, and recognized a place. I grabbed a handful of my stuff, and left the car, winding my way through buildings until I saw the entrance to the place that seemed familiar. It was a semi-fancy building, and I went upstairs, and down the hall past several entrances, until I hit the last one, which I remembered might be mine. I walked in, and quickly ran up the inner steps. But.. it was wrong. Too big.. far too big, and far too fancy. This was a mansion, entrance hidden as an apartment. There was a family already in there (but no mother?) touring. I looked down at my paper, and saw that I got the address wrong. I asked briefly for directions to 16th, and he said that he didn't know areas outside the city... but then I re-read my paper, and it said BelleFonte. I sighed, and looked at my stuff, which I had put down on a counter. It was all spread out and would be a pain to gather. I grabbed the stuff with my mind, causing it to hover behind me as I turned around and started to walk back to my car. I noticed, on a mid-step platform on the way down, a nice grand piano. Definitely not my place. I'll be there soon.

Yeah, I just woke up, and this was my last night with my home base in Columbus. Today, I leave for the trip in which I get the keys to my new place. I'm bringing more of my network there with me, and switching over my phone as soon as I get there.

I meant to write some of the stuff in this entry (below) the day before yesterday, but I've been busy.

On the job front, the job I really want had its second interview with me on my last trip. They say I'll probably be hearing back from them around the end of this week. I hope I get it -- it's such a good match for my interests, but I've been hedging my bet, applying for a job at a local ISP. I don't know if that job would be quite as cool, but they have technical tests of skill that are kind of fun. So far, the tests have been:

• Mail them a ssh DSA public key (which they installed onto a guest account)
• Install apache in that guest user's homedir
• Write a form+CGI that mails people

Nothing very challenging, but at least worth some mild amusement while I wait for the page to turn. Of course, I'll be without internet access soon. If they ask for something else, there'll be a delay.

Some thoughts I had in my last car ride back to Columbus..

A band that I was introduced to by someone at GoAntiques... Firewater.. they used to have a website, but it now redirects to an internet gambling site. Error? Purchase of dead rights? Or some kind of statement? In any case, it's worth some amusement.

Would it be possible to have a periodic table of reactions? Well, probably no.. I imagine the characteristics of a reaction are best expressed in terms of the parent elements. Sometimes sideways speculations can be interesting, but one gets a lot of duds, like this one :)

Amusement.. There is a common perception that people with different car colors tend to behave differently. Anecdotally, it seems true to me. Could there be meaning in this? Perhaps there is a self-selection -- people buy cars of 'fast colors' like red or black to show off? If so, this would be a self perpetuating association, that might concievably have had no base in anything at all. Except.. we might imagine there to be some basis for the association -- different colors do affect peoples moods differently. Hmm.

Imagery.. Driving down a highway imaged as people sitting at a rest stop, bored, still, on benches. They fade out, new people fade in, as you move along and grow more near or far from them.

Imagery.. He slowed his highway race, having spotted the hand of god in the sky. It was up there, curled fingers, thumb.. a bright beacon. Again, the inner arguments, the demons of religion within taunt him with various interpretations and spirituality. What's behind the curtain? Well, I saw a funny-shaped gap in a cloud, and it looked like a hand. Heh.

So, put the world on hold, I'm thinking!

Well, back to the present, I went to town addiction last night with Leon and Jeff, and we spoke of many philosophical things. Sadly, I grew sleepy, and remember very little of it.

That's it, and quite possibly my last journal entry for awhile. My family of systems is going to be seperated, and even when all together again, will be in a place without easy internet access.

Well, here we go. My NFS server torgo is shutting down. I'll be shutting down holly momentarily. I likely will leave forrester here, for now. Time to finish packing, and to go. $ shutdown -g0 -i0 -y