vancouver ho!

so it's almost official. i'm moving to vancouver.

sorry to those of you who are reading this on the blog and are offended because i haven't told them in person yet. what can i say, i didn't see a ton of people today.

i'm taking a job at Mac donald Dett wiler & As sociates where i worked when i lived in Vancouver two years ago. it's an engineering firm that "provides advanced information solutions that capture and process vast amounts of data, produce essential information, and improve the decision making and operational performance of business and government organizations worldwide" -- whatever that means. (I seem to gravitate to organizations and programs whose purpose and activity are inarticulable. Guess I don't really like boxes.)

for me that means a job where i get paid salary and work on a team to help build software that will be used by the US Air Force and the FAA (if their contract goes through). my particular role will be to try and break the software. i like this job. working on the "test team", i'll get to make sure that what the program that the "developpers" write actually meets its requirements. this involves reading official USAF documents, some math, some ingenuity, Microsoft Word skills, and a lot of repetition in executing the tests.

but that's just the technical part. i'll also get to be working and sharing space with a group of very cool (though often socially awkward), and inevitably loveable people. maybe God will do some crazy-powerful and miraculous things in the 4 months that my contract extends for. or maybe i'll just make some better friends, and help people to see outside their box a little. like i said before, it is part of my job to break things, why not break open people's minds? i like that job too.

i know i skipped over a whole section of the program and my life between this entry and last. However i've learned that you certainly can't do everything in life, but you certainly can do some things.

a bientot