I found a place to live, finally a decent house in a great neighborhood. It’s close to everything I need, and it is more convenient to my friends like Yoji who live on the Westside. It’s good having a garage again. And, it has a view.

I think I’m moving out just in time, since the Fire Department has been using the warehouses next to my apartment as practice rescue buildings, coming in at night and ripping out the roofs, etc. This means it’s just a matter of time before all those buildings- almost a whole city block- will be demolished. The dust and mess will be incredible.

Also, as mentioned here before, my building is going ghetto. Things aren’t being repaired, amenities are being closed (it is very frustrating to see the 50 inch plasma and the couches in the common room and know none of us can get in there to enjoy it). The new management company, from Arizona, is pretty horrible. One of my neighbors calls them Nazis. And finally, their rents are going up. It’s just not worth staying, anymore.

Still, it’ll take me a couple more weeks to get fully moved out. I’ve been so busy at work lately, finishing up a video project and currently working on 4 web projects, that I can’t spend all my time packing boxes and running back and forth. I don’t mind that it’s taking a while to get moved. It helps me enjoy the process.

Today was also the day we finally ended our association with a client. The client had been having problems for over a year- they’ve lost over half their staff, and many of the departures were very acrimonious. They also fired or lost all of their other vendors. We hung in there, but eventually things got to where working with them just wasn’t fun or profitable. It was time for us to go, too.

Change is a part of life. It isn’t easy, whether it’s saying goodbye to a place you’ve lived, closing the door on a bad client, or ending a relationship and moving on. There’s been a lot of changes in my life lately, and looking around I notice that there are many sea changes taking place in those around me. We live in uncertain times. But they’re still interesting times. I don’t see the world as bleak.

I am looking forward to life becoming more interesting, more vital, more alive. There’s a lot of potential out there right now. And I have to think that it’s definitely time to move onto bigger and better things.