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F Mexico.

And the winner is…..

Los Angeles.

We’ll be moving out there the last week of July/first week of August.  So please postpone any and all Vegas trips until after that date.  Also, I will likely need someone willing to drive across the country with me and then fly back to Atlanta who (very preferably) drives stick as Jen will be driving out there with her mom in a U-Haul.

Now I just need to get on that “job” thing.  There’s a chance I’ll be able to stick with Exel for at least a little while as the Fontana warehouse will be going up on the new RF system around that time, but we’ll see.  That would be a hella long commute so I can’t see myself sticking with it that long if I don’t get to do a substantial bit of work from home.

Anyway, that’s that.

Sorry it took me so long to write this up, but I got way too busy at work.

So this is the dilemma.  Jen just got in to UCLA Med School from off the waitlist.   She has until next Friday to decide where she is goin, which means we need to decide what we’re going to do very soon.

UCLA Pros:
- Exciting
- LA.  New experiences, great weather, food, etc
- Better school.  Could mean a more competitive residency somewhere like Seattle or Boston (which she was thinking about)
- If we’re going to do something different it’s easiest to do it now since neither of us have any real commitments.
- No “What if I had gone to the better school” regrets.
- Las Vegas is drivable.

UCLA Cons:
- LA.  Expensive and completely unknown.
- Logistics of getting out there, finding a place, and starting to look for a job all in a very short period of time.
- Friends and family (but it would only be for a few years and we still like Casey).
- No more condo

Emory Pros:
- Comfortable
- Still a very good school that could lead to good residencies.
- Dodgeball, softball, etc.
- Spending less than 1-br LA rent to live in a nice 2-br condo.

Emory Cons:
- “What if” factor
- Not the same national recognition as UCLA
- Would probably mean a residency away which would mean I would be much more established in a job, and she would have much less time to really experience the new city.

So, yeah.  It should be a fun next day or two trying to figure all of this out.  Because once she makes a call to the UCLA admissions office either way, it’s completely finished.

In an effort to do something interesting I’m going to be trying to learn some web programming stuff.  I know some php and a decent bit of MySQL thanks to those awesome school projects I had to do, but I’d like to learn more.  I’m especially interested in the stuff like being able to upload files to websites, and create “comments” sections for different things.  Expect to see some sample pages you can mess around on in the next few weeks.

I’m also reading up on CSS, which is apparently pretty easy if you have any other experience programming and using HTML.  From what I can gather, you basically create classes with certain attributes and then assign certain text to whatever class it should be.  The last thing I’m trying to learn is Ajax which seems to have some pretty cool aspects that I’ll talk about later if I can actually pull them off.  Stuff like dragging and dropping icons on a website like you can in Windows.

Completely unrelated (I’m trying to kill time before Sopranos), I played a Razz tournament yesterday and it sucked my soul.  I wish I could play just limit Razz without having to play a tournament or 4 other games on a HORSE table.

Also, I may be moving to LA soon.  Details to come on that tomorrow.  (See what I did there, suspense).

In case you didn’t know, I am playing in an adult dodgeball league with George, his roommates, Ben, Gouda, and a couple other people.  It’s pretty fun except for the fact that we are kinda awful.

Each match is kinda like tennis.  There are 5 sets in a match and 3 games per set.  The match goes all 5 sets regardless, but a set is stopped after one team wins 2 games.  I’m not positive, but I believe our overall record is something like 10-15 after our 3-2 victory in the game tonight.   We did seem to play a lot better though, we threw as a team, didn’t let people get out early, and drained the clock when we had an advantage in body count.  We probably should’ve won 4-1 but the team we were playing (a bunch of high school seniors who destroyed us 5-0 last week) won a tie-breaker that never should’ve happened.  I guess there are two weeks left until playoffs and we have a double-header next week so hopefully there is still time to get better.

More exciting though, the softball league starts up soon.   I haven’t played any sport with a bat since I was 10, so this could get bad.  However, I can keep score like a king, and hopefully someone else can as well so I can give you, the reader, the detailed stats you long for.