And what else is new?

So big news from our side.. life has gotten a little strange.

Here's what's happened in a timeline..

- end of May, I move up to Dallas, house in Austin goes empty.
- June 1, house goes on the market.
- June 5, we get a full-price offer on the house, no conditions.
- June 17, I make an offer on a townhome in Dallas, contingent upon my house in Austin selling
- June 20, we get a near-full price backup offer on the house.
- June 29, offer 1 expires - the buyer couldn't get financing.
- July 3, offer 2 gets withdrawn - the buyer's wife didn't like the location.

- middle of July, Chaz is *really* bored with his job, and starts sending out resumes
- July 29, my offer on my flat in Dallas expires since my house in Austin hasn't sold.

- August 2, Chaz gets an interview with a company in Austin.
- August 6 - morning, Chaz gets a call that IBM has canceled his contract in Dallas. He'll be unemployed as of August 10.
- August 6 - afternoon, Chaz interviews with the company in Austin. It goes well.
- August 8 - Company in Austin offers him a job.
- August 12 - David starts a gig in Dallas
- August 19 - Chaz moves to Austin and starts new job.

So. Now. I'm in Dallas working. Chaz is in Austin.

The mind boggles. I'll be moving BACK to Austin in September.

The gig in Dallas is with Pepsi. There's no free drinks, and I think Diet Pepsi tastes like cleaning fluid. I'm smuggling in Diet Coke and drinking tea instead.

The benefit of having the house in Austin empty was that it gave us an opportunity to do some work on the place. Chaz redid the floors, and he's putting an epoxy coating on the garage floor for us. Should be pretty. The movers come to Dallas on the 10th of Sept to pick up the stuff and move it to Austin. We know better than to try to move ourselves in September.

While there's work being done on the house, I'm doing some work on the realaustinman blog as well. Cursed CSS!