- Move out of LA We're in Seattle right now, but we'll have to come back. - Rebuild wife's business in another market Met with a realtor yesterday. Oops. Need to call him. hang on. Yes, possibly looking at more real estate today. She's also had four meetings so far with future colleagues and competitors. - Learn WWise & FMod Certified in WWise last time, negotiating with one of my contacts to steeply discount my FMod training. Will check back on Monday. - Add another industry to roster Kind of a big one. Building out a website for the first time in a gajillion years but it takes a while.
- Log into MyFitnessPal every goddamn day Missed yesterday, goddamn it. I fucking hate myfitnesspal. EDITED TO ADD: Need to check out "Recondite" when I have access to headphones. My inlaws' place is so amazingly messy that I've been incapable of finding my f'ing Sonicare for three days.
How's Seattle? Over the last few months I've been getting very interested in living there. Mostly for the music scene, mostly thanks to KEXP.
Talk to ghostoffuffle 'cuz he lives here. But I: - Paid for college mixing in clubs downtown - Designed the sound systems for a quarter of the clubs still standing - volunteered at KNHC for 7-8 years and I can tell ya: I actually feel like going to shows when I'm in Seattle. LA? Fuck everything about that.
Feel like it's tough to recommend any city not New York to a New Yorker. But my two cents: Music scene is great, especially now that it looks like Seattle is climbing out of a two-year "all sixties garage punk all the time" trench. I mean, I like basic, disaffected harmonies floating in a sea of reverb and jangly guitars as much as the next guy, but that shit was starting to grate. KEXP is moving to a new home- it'll mean dick to anybody not living in Seattle, but if you live (or move) here, they're planning on having live shows in the lobby, viewing areas for people who want to watch stuff get recorded (as opposed to tourists just cramming into the control room right now, which has a certain provincial charm, but I don't think anybody'll miss it), and like a cafe and hangout spot or some shit. Should be pretty incredible. Ground broke last week, projected finish is end of 2016 (good luck with that). Anyways, if you're already a fan, that should provide greater incentive. Downtown is beautiful. I've commuted into the city for the past four years, and the sight of the rising sun reflected off the sound never gets old (or more often it's the rising clouds reflected off the other clouds, but I'm a cloud person, so that don't bother me none). Real estate is expensive, but coming from NYC, that probably means bubkes. You'll miss the culture, but that'll be anywhere you move. I personally would appreciate more multiculturalism, less aquavit, but we're trudging in the right direction. Mainly, though, you just won't find the same oomf to the Seattle boroughs that you've come to expect. They're all kind of within cultural spitting distance of each other, with a few superficial differences. It's not bad, it's just... it's not vividly painted. Seattlites aren't the most colorful people. So you get a lot of shades of grey. Literally, figuratively, culturally, morally. That last paragraph should be taken with a grain or two, though. Keep in mind that since we can only afford to live in the burby margins of Seattle, I'm not reaping the benefits of living right in the thick of it. Single twentysomething (er... teensomething) with investment banking experience and a college stipend? Fugeddabaddit. You'd be right in the middle of things, and you'd have a blast.
That was an awesome pair of cents! Thanks! I heard about the new KEXP spot, seems like it'd be a nice place to hang out. As you said, "city issues" like real estate are pretty much void to me coming out of NYC, but I'll realistically be living in outskirts (whatever is relative to Brooklyn or the not-so-stabby parts of Harlem, etc.) so s'all good. The only concern I have is avoiding a state of vague, complacent depression congruent to your weather. To be or not to be Kurt Cobain, that is the Seattle question..
MFP I've been using just to log foods since this. It seems to have a little trouble syncing activities to MFP but calorie syncing works fine.
I totally don't know what kind of site you want to make, but Squarespace is what I would pick if I were creating a new one. I attempted to port my site there but I found out I need the $16/mo package to keep Discussion via Hubski, and I don't have that monies. Still, they have simple templates but also allow you to dig into HTML, CSS, node.js and whatevs.Kind of a big one. Building out a website for the first time in a gajillion years but it takes a while.
Hey, maybe you find this worth checking out: http://www.layerswp.com/ edit: okay so it doesn't support WP blogs - yet. Might still be good to keep an eye on, though.