Life changes & found items

So, the big news is that I'm changing jobs. I'm leaving the firm where I started my career four years ago, and had the opportunity to take self-portraits of myself wearing aviators on the roofs of half-finished Target stores. I'll be starting in mid-May at a large architecture/engineering firm in downtown St. Paul, who shall go unnamed because I don't know what their feelings are about being associated with an individual's blog and I don't want to get pre-fired. I'm excited for the downtown environment, expensive parking notwithstanding, and the hustle & bustle of an urban firm with a large variety of projects going on. I'll have to listen to lots of SimCity music on my iPod while I engineer.

As a result of the change, I'm looking down the barrel of two moves: job and house, more or less simultaneously. I finish at Job #1 on May 7th, we close on our house May 9th, and I start at Job #2 May 14th. I'm a frothing madman, you see.

I started cleaning out my desk yesterday, and came across a stack of slips of paper, most of them Get Fuzzy Page-a-Day pages, with notes scrawled on them. Old to-do lists, many of them, but also some Fred-cultural artifacts scrawled on lunch breaks and end-of-the-day flights of fancy. I present to you here two that I found of interest.

Legend of Zelda Games
chronologically, and indicating (X) if I have ever completed them:

• The Legend of Zelda X
  
• Adventure of Link X
  
• Link to the Past X
  
• Link's Awakening X
  
• Ocarina of Time
• Majora's Mask
• Oracle of Ages
• Oracle of Seasons
• Wind Waker X
  
• Four Swords Adventures X
  
• Minish Cap X
  
• Twilight Princess (X, more recent than list)
  
• Phantom Hourglass

Hey, that was fun! Here's another:

Awesome Rolling Stones songs
(* indicates songs I was newly, especially fond of as of early 2005)

• Moonlight Mile
• Happy
• Let It Loose *
• Paint It Black
• She's a Rainbow
• You Can't Always Get What You Want
• 19th Nervous Breakdown
• Can't You Hear Me Knocking *
• Monkey Man
• Wild Horses
• Bitch *
• Beast of Burden
• Ruby Tuesday
• Rocks Off *
• Sympathy for the Devil
• Ventilator Blues
• Angie
• I Don't Know Why *
• Loving Cup
• Tumbling Dice
• Gimme Shelter

Wow! This is the sort of hard-hitting excitement you've come to expect from my blog, no doubt. Glad to serve.

Hey, reminder, Neutrino happens tonight. Please do come. I certainly didn't expect April to be the month where it actually snowed while we were filming but then, sometimes our expectations are dashed and covered with a half an inch of snow.