So I moved to San Francisco this week.
March 23, 2008Since I figured this past week has been a total blur to me, that all you out there must be wondering what in the world is going on. So here it is… I moved to San Francisco. The End.
Okay, here is the real story. About 3 weeks about I came to SF to interview with this really cool company called Dealmaker Media (dealmakermedia.com). After a bunch of interview I was offered the job and a chance of a lifetime. I accepted the offer and had a week to move out there and get started. So I naturally got started. I sold my car, packed up my things, had some nice going away parties and Dani and I drove out there. 11 hours later as we pulled into the city it finally hit me, holy cow we are in SF.
We got to our hotel, which was pretty sweet for $85 a night though the $35 to park was insane. We went and looked at one apartment location which was god awful. After some dinner we crashed as we had a long day ahead. The next day we went to see 3 different places and ultimately decided on Archstone Fox Plaza. While going from a 1400 square foot luxury town home to a 475 square foot apartment seemed like a bad choice, it was the best option. I am on the 23rd floor and have amazing views (see below).
After signing my lease at 4pm we drove the rental car over and unloaded then went to IKEA to do some shopping. We got some awesome stuff and I should have my place totally furnished by the end of next week.
Tuesday I had to say goodbye to Dani. While we are used to separation, I felt like I was going to college all over again. It was so nice to be 90minutes away for the past 18 months, but she’ll be up here soon enough. We took BART to the airport and she went home.
Wednesday we were off to Mountain View and Microsoft to setup for our conference. I got to meet a ton of cool startup companies that in a few short years will change how we do everything. I’m going to post them daily so you can start to get familiar with them. We had a nice cocktail party at a local restaurant in Palo Alto then went to dinner. We went to dinner with the original creator of QuickBooks and a guy from Microsoft, no big deal in this world. The next day was our conference and the most fun I’ve had in a long time. I met a ton of cool people from the press and technology world. At the end of the day we came home and I slept on my wood floors, awesome.
I finally got a bed on Friday, thank god. I know that was a lot of recapping from the past week, but it had to be done. I’ll be posting daily from now on so you can see what’s going on in my life and at work. Thanks for the support.
Miss you Dani and Ace!
