Bamboo garage....

[drscott]

...not some bit of word salad from a Beyesian-avoidance spam, but the 56 boxes of bamboo flooring now stacked in our garage awaiting installation next week. The fun of moving almost all the furniture and bookshelves in the house awaits us.

We were just visited by Mike's old friend Erik, who moved off to Australia two years ago with Torsten, his partner. Erik told us about how Torsten won't stay happy anywhere and now wants to move to South Africa. Which reminded us of someone... people who can never find the person or place they think they need to be happy and keep searching until (if they're lucky) they realize the search was their life. By which time it's too late to recover the people jettisoned to continue the search.

ECR club night last night was fun. Andy was throwing us some out-of-usual-position stuff, taking the training wheels off for the just-graduated students. Unfortunately some of us long-term dancers were not much better. I was especially confused by a "single-file, first go left, second go right" bit, which by the time I had figured it out had me standing confused in the wrong place. I will miss Andy.

Comments

Re: my brother is a nomad like that

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, I have a brother who's much the same, but more so -- the talk of the next job/place/whatever begins immediately after he changes. The idea of finding someplace/someone good enough to build a life with and then being loyal even if it's less than perfect doesn't sink in.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've seen pictures of bamboo flooring and I do imagine it'll look really nice when down.

As for moving, I tried moving to LA a couple of years ago to find work, but ended up back 6 months later, and 10 months latter, I found the best job I have ever had and it pays the best I've ever had too, like living on a real living wage for once. Go figure. :-)

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

In the cases I'm thinking of, it's about finding personal happiness with the new people at the new place, not anything employment-related. But moving to find work is a strategy that usually fails or takes a long time (unless you're in a specialty that's always in great demand.)

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

As the old wives tale goes, "the grass is always greener on the other side", as you pointed out, not necessarily when it comes to employment.