Well, we made it. Two weeks later and I've got internet set up at home and a little bit of free time to write (by the way, if you ever need help debugging a broken linksys router, I now know nearly everything about said purple box). The drive in the Buick was pretty amazing (if not slight boring): Cleveland, OH -> Chicago, IL -> Rapid City, SD (if you're counting, that's 1,000 miles in one day) -> Bozeman, MT -> Spokane, WA -> Seattle, WA. When you do these cross-country trips, you're supposed to stop and see some "cool stuff" along the way. Well, fuck that! We passed a lot of places right the fuck up ("Do you want to drive an extra two hours to see Mt. Rushmore? No? Yeah, me neither"). For the record, South Dakota is officially the most boring place on Earth. Except a thirty mile stretch of 90W which we dubbed the "Bunny Killing Machine:" about thirty miles of rabbit carcasses often in groups of 10+. Wyoming, while sparse, was beautiful; as was Montana. Living in a close knit community for so long, you sometimes forget just how massive the States are.
We got in after about five days of driving and had a day before I had to start my new job at BKWLD. The first week was hectic: getting used to mass amounts of vehicles (good drivers here though), getting confused about how to get on I-5 (what the fuck?), making the mistake of going to IKEA on a Sunday (an abortion), cleaning something like 7,245,901 dead bugs, bunnies, and butterflies (monarch stuck in the grille; an awful site) off of the Buick, etc. I settled in at work and Robert, my new boss, introduced me to the fantastic Pioneer Square, a old city 'hood loaded with great places to eat and hang out. I was also introduced to an amazing Apple Cinema HD display which has been nothing but pleasurable to use after working on 15" laptops and 15" flatscreens for the past month or so. The work has already been challenging (tight deadlines are sort of a new thing for me) but it's thoroughly enjoyable to work on "big client" projects with little to no technical restrictions.
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Hopefully in the next week I'll get some info up here about the work I'm currently doing. Robert and I built recently a mini-site for Wet Paint ("Please Touch"), a shared painting application. Greg at BKWLD designed the canvas and Robert built some fucking amazing paint tools. I was responsible for building the interaction and the "save and share" system and figuring out a method for uploading and painting with local images in Flash (a thing I though not possible from previous attempts). After that, Mark at BKWLD created a sweet gallery tool for displaying the results of the shared painting, displaying each users contributions step-by-step.
In other news, I picked up my car today and was slightly perturbed by the removal of my amp from my trunk. The damn thing was bolted down; someone had simply cut the wires and removed the bolts and helped themselves to it. Fucking savages in this town. Anyway, never needed a good reason to buy new stereo equipment before.
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