got it
man, have i been having some internet issues. i now have two laptops (at the moment, i have them both open side by side) and while each one could do a variety of different things, it seemed that i could get neither one of them to blog. until now. not really sure what is different now, but it works. khalid claimed he fixed it. if fixing it means doing nothing, that sounds about right. thanks khalid!
so we've officially been here 2 weeks now. i had written a "officially been here 1 week entry", but it got hopelessly lost in cyberspace. so now i'll have to share an update of the last 2 weeks in california (pronounced as i like to say califor-ny-ae). we've finally got our house in order. with the exception of a few random items here and there that we don't know what to do with, it looks pretty great. as soon as we figure out what to do with those things, i'll post some pics. so taking care of that took about all the time we both had off for vacation, and then we started work last week. interesting and all the people are really friendly, but i feel like i am in waaaaaay over my head.
favorite thing about california so far: the massive amounts of wonderful cheap fresh fruit. let's just say that my digestive system is learning to accomodate the obscene numbers of plums i've been eating.
worst thing about california so far: the hour long commute across the bay bridge everyday. traffic sucks.