I have lived in California for 

• 1,153,612,800 seconds
• 19,226,880 minutes
• 320,448 hours
• 13,352 days
• 1907 weeks and 3 days
• 36 years, 6 months, 22 days including today.

I moved to California (arrived) on October 31, 1980. That date is significant to me because my family and I moved into the house I grew up in on October 31, 1960 (I was 4 going on 5).

I was moving from Denver, Colorado to Santa Barbara to start a new job. 

Tomorrow morning, I will be leaving California and making the move to Canyon Lake, Texas and I start a new job there on Tuesday, May 30th. 

U-Haul has taken away just enough of our house so I can live in the new one until we sell this house and can move the rest of our belongings to Texas. We are aiming for late July.  

My next post will from the new house, see you all then, y'all. 

I am actually making progress on my coding project.  This past week, almost no code was written because I was furiously packing for my move to Texas but two weeks ago I got quite a bit done.

I have each of the basic lookup list pages and the major major pages are built.  I also hooked up the drop down using the lookup lists for the foreign key data.  Along the way I made a few database changes by adding some indexes and constraints and then added in some pop-up messages for when a user tries to create a duplicate record. 

I have also moved my private Git repositories out of BitBucket and into GitLab and now I use GitKraken as my UI for Git. 

Next up is coding up the secondary pages for each section. I already have pondered some enhancements for these pages that would make the application better but they are on the to do list as I have to get the basic functionality done first; things like emailing directly from the application, printing, and a calendar view to name a few.

Time to do some more packing and this evening a bit more coding

The house in Texas is "DONE". The last few things to be taken care of are on the punch list and our contractor is working on them and should have them done by the end of the month.  Which is when I will move in.

YES! It has happened. After several interviews with various companies - some where I did not get passed the first phase and others where I was flown in and given really, really, really hard coding exercises, and others where I did the interviews via Skype; I was finally presented with a job offer which I accepted and will start, again, at the end of the month.

Now I am frantically packing up part of the house so I can move, now, and the rest of the house will be packed up and moved, along with my dear husband later in the summer. 

In other news, the California state legislature has been at it again. Governor Moonbeam signed a bill to raise gas taxes and car fees to fund repairs for our transportation infrastructure  We already pay some of the highest fuel taxes in the nation and that money is supposed to go for transportation infrastructure .  
So why are we being taxed twice?  Well but our legislators have a habit of "borrowing" that money and never put it back - I call it stealing.  

The other reason for this bill is that the tax revenues from the current tax have fallen off.  WHY? well there are several factors: 
1) cars are more fuel efficient thus less gas is bought and less tax collected.
2) they (the state government) encouraged every one to get hybrids or electric vehicles which also resulted in less gas being bought and less tax collected. 

So not only will this bill raise the gas taxes and vehicle registration fees, it will also tax those who have electric vehicles to make up for the gas they are not buying. 

Personally I think some of this money will be diverted to the "Browndoggle" also known as the not-so-high-speed train to NO where - that is transportation after all, right? 

With all of this happening, I am once again, very glad to leave this state. But I will miss my friends. 

For the fun of it. Here is a picture of my mother at a Texas road-side sign, back in the early 1950's when she and my father did a road trip across the country and back to New York.