Several people have asked me where the blog posting is about actually STARTING the new job. Sorry about that, it was kind of a busy week. I flew down to Florida for the work week last week and started the new job. It is going well so far.

So far I’m mainly just getting settled. Learning who people are. Learning what they do. Learning more about the product. Learning more about the plans. I imagine this phase will last a few weeks. Maybe a month. Hopefully after that it will be in full swing. I know these orientation phaes are needed and are normal, but it is frustrating. One wants to get up to speed and busy quickly.

The folks there are very nice and friendly and accomodating though. This looks like it will be a fun time.

I am back in PA this week. I have a few conference calls to attend, and a number of things I’ve been given to research. But I can tell this going back and forth will make it a little harder to get started up. But on the other hand, it will really help in the transition in terms of getting moved and everything.

We’ve probably had almost a dozen people come look at the house so far, and Brandy keeps getting more calls about it. That is good. Hopefully later this week there might actually be OFFERS. But maybe not. We’ll see how it goes.

Then next week it is back in FL again, this time taking Brandy and Amy with me. It is Amy’s spring break, which is why we picked that week. We’ll be looking at houses and such, but depending on what is going on with the house here, we may not actually be ready to put an offer on anything quite yet. I’ve heard people recommend we shouldn’t do that right away anyway, and spend more time getting to know the area.

But I just feel I want to get all these transition details settled, so I actually know what is happening the next few months. This back and forth thing is crazy. I want to hurry up and get things settled and get all of us down there. Of course, that won’t be happening until the end of the school year in June anyway, but I want to at least nail down the schedule, know where I am going, etc.

It will be an interesting and busy few months.