Absent lately

[bsmith]

Well guys just poking my head in to say Hi. In the last few months the wife and I have decided to relocate across country. Selling the house and quitting our jobs. I've been really busy with fixing up the house and getting all the details worked out. I still browse the forums but not much time to reply to posts. I will probably be without a connection for several months. Any way just checking in.
Bill :wow:

[Siul1313]

You will be missed....

damm no connection for months, I kinda feel bad for you

[drlouis]

Well guys just poking my head in to say Hi. In the last few months the wife and I have decided to relocate across country. Selling the house and quitting our jobs. I've been really busy with fixing up the house and getting all the details worked out. I still browse the forums but not much time to reply to posts. I will probably be without a connection for several months. Any way just checking in.
Bill :wow:
I'm getting a little light headed and nauseous just thinking about it. I couldn't be without the internet that long. Good luck on the move. Hope everything goes well for you, and you get back faster than you expect.

[seablade]

Have fun with that.. yea there is a bit of sarrcasm/pity in there for yas;)

Seablade

[mmarkin]

Hey Bill, good to see you around. All the best with the quest. :)

Mikhail

[beaviskob1]

Good Luck! I kinda wish I had the balls to do that. I'm getting sick of the bayarea. I saw some ads on anandtech "hot deals" for homes in Tenesse ( I know out in the middle of nowhere!) but a 4/2 for $40K . Hmm sell my 4/2 here for $1.2M and retire! I lived in Hawaii for a while but for the most part born and raised in Cali but traffic, smog, too many people, high cost of living, crime etc.etc.etc. getting to me.

[bigtrouble77]

My ultimate goal is to build my company so that all the business is through the web. Then I move out to a ranch in colorado or something. I actually saw a place in Wyoming a couple years ago that was so tempting. Sadly, I'm still stuck in NJ, the one place I least like to be in. :(

Good luck!
-BT

[seablade]

My ultimate goal is to build my company so that all the business is through the web. Then I move out to a ranch in colorado or something. I actually saw a place in Wyoming a couple years ago that was so tempting. Sadly, I'm still stuck in NJ, the one place I least like to be in. :(

Good luck!
-BT

And strangely that is where my wife and I are considering moving in a couple years;)

Course neither of us do IT for a living anymore, she teaches math and I work in theater, so not exactly the same situation;)

Seablade

[bsmith]

I'm actually looking to get out of IT my self. 14 years is long enough for me I think.

[bigtrouble77]

And strangely that is where my wife and I are considering moving in a couple years;)

Course neither of us do IT for a living anymore, she teaches math and I work in theater, so not exactly the same situation;)

Seablade
Where are you considering, Colorodo or Wyoming? Personally, I loved new mexico when I was there. No mosquitos. I got eaten alive a few years ago in yellowstone.

[seablade]

New Jersey actually;)

Colorado is a nice looking state though, always liked it when I went out, but to cold for me;)

Seablade

[abf]

all this talk of travel and moving makes me dizzy. lol, i am still pretty jet lagged from yesterday returning home (chicago) from paris (france). i am stuck in chicago for a little while, have been for the last 8 years (2 in city, 6 in burbs). in just over a year i'll be going away to college, so i have the opporunity to get out somewhere nicer, nicer weather perhaps would be nice. so where ever i go will be my residence for the next 4 years (2007-2011), at 2011 i'll probably be back to chicago for a few years, and then move somwhere more south (not FL or GA or AL or OK) but far enough south.

[bsmith]

Here's an update. We all survived the trip. Turns out the place I'm renting is less than a 1/4 mile from the CO that has a dslam. I got DSL hooked up and back online for a while. Just need to sell my old house and find a job out here. Any who I'll be around some more now.

[spincricket]

Cool, did you get qwest?

[abf]

*goes to sit in his shame closet thinking about why the hell he got comcast*

[spincricket]

Lol. I like qwest, in my old apartment I qualified for their 7mb/ 1.5 Mb down
Package. It was SWEETNESS!!!!

The pings were around 32ms higher than other providers due to the interleave that qwest adds, but it makes for such a stable connection, you dont get spiking pings. Plus i would ping 60-90 for c.s servers, so not too bad.

Right now i share mediacom with my neighbor, ill trade you my mediacom for your comcast. lol.

[seablade]

Personally I am enjoying Qwest out here for my gig at the moment, it isnt bad, but not exactly great either I suppose.

But Comcast I gotta say I left and wont go back to them because they screwed me over in billing repeatedly.

Seablade

[bsmith]

Na I'm with bellsouth now.