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Even though I have been maintaining my cardio routine on-and-off this summer I hadn't done any strength training since late April/early May. Thursday I decided to resume and even though I started out with very light weights (about what I started with originally, not what I ended with in May) and didn't do too many reps by about Friday at 1pm every major muscle group was in pain.

Despite the soreness Denis and I went hiking on Saturday. We climbed to the summit of Mt. Greylock--the highest point in MA. It was a beautiful day and the hike took a few hours. At the top there is a lovely lookout area and a huge tower that was originally a lighthouse, but was placed on top of the mountain as a war memorial in the thirties. (You can drive to the top as well, but that would take out the fun of hiking.) It seemed a fitting way to spend our last official weekend together as Berkshire residents.

Then we rented In America, which I found delightful and Denis found boring (he left about 15 minutes in to play computer games.) Friday night we went and saw the Terminal, which was sweet and entertaining. Tom Hanks was great and I got a kick out of the fact that Catherine Zeta Jones's character is named Amelia.

Now we are both stressed with the demands of finding a place to live (very stressful if you are not in the area, I can't imagine moving overseas). Should we take something now, sight-unseen that looks promising, or wait until Denis moves down there so he can look, but then where will Denis stay while he's looking? Who's going to have the car when he moves down? How/when is the house going to get packed up, when are we going to move, what stuff should we get rid of, how will we know what to bring until we have an apartment, etc. We are thinking of getting cell phones, and I'm feeling some sticker shock from that too.

All these stupid questions that are stressful to negotiate and decide. Blech, I hate moving.

Comments

[coffman.livejournal.com]

Denis is quite right - there are free services (Skype, for instance) that let you make "phone calls" from PC to PC - but if it has to terminate through the normal phone system (i.e. you're calling a real phone from your PC) then they've got to pay so you've got to pay.

The other thing is that if you're looking at that as a way to keep in touch with Denis while he's on the job, it's unlikely to work - the ports that such services use are typically blocked on corporate networks.

That being said, I think it's really likely Denis will have access to both a phone and personal email while at work. I've never been in a computer job where I didn't have this - the only exception would be if you were working by the hour and on a client's premises or something. But if you're a developer working at a desk, my experience at several companies is that it didn't matter that I never talked on the phone during the course of my business, I was still given a phone at my desk. And I've always been able to check personal email too.

Now, whether those things are technically allowed by the company is a different matter - some are stricter than others about using company resources for personal matters. Places I've worked for generally haven't cared, as long as you weren't making long distance calls or totally disturbing work. They expect that people will need to contact spouses to tell them when they're coming home and that kind of thing.

And as I answered in another post of Denis's - calling cards with cell phones is not such a good deal, since you still pay for the minutes when you call a 1-800 number.

[mrsjadephoenix.livejournal.com]

I could understand no personal phone, but a *coding* job where you weren't allowed to check *e-mail*? Forcing geeks to sit at a computer all day without being hooked up to the internet? What kind of sadistic place is this? ;-)