life, work, and nothing else

[<http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Michael Kramer <http://www.pacbell.net/~kramerly> wrote:
> Gone since Feb., but ready to collect my big windfall with the Google
> purchase.

Ah.  The reason I wanted to contact you was to congratulate you, but it seems
the congratulations are very different now!

> I've been loose since then, but about to start a job in SF, it
> seems.

That's good.  Where're you ending up?

> Funny enough, but I feel like I should get a job before I move to
> Marin

You'll be commuting to S.F. from Marin.  Ugh.

> and get married.  

Congratulations!

> What else is new?

OK, so the company I was working at, Tell_me, was acquired by Macrosoft
in April.  (Yes, yet another acquisition.)  So, they gave us lots of incentive
to stay there for at least 2 years.  Not much has changed so far, other than
really annoying security measures.  I still very much enjoy working with speech
recognition stuff.  For a while, I was falling into a pattern (working on
grammar compilers written in Perl), but I'll be working on a very different
project now (massive C++ program).  So, that keeps life interesting.

Life in where-I-live is pretty mellow, especially in the summer.