All best to Harvey and his humans.

What Beverly said.

Scritches to Harvey and hugs for his humans.

Kitty~ma, Andi.

Do you know where exactly the job is, Hil? If it's in Detroit proper I'd say hell no. A lot of the suburbs are okay, though. Royal Oak and Southfield for sure. I had relatives in both of those and they were very particular about where they lived having good schools. Westland is okay, but has some iffy neighborhoods (my cousins called it Wasteland.) Livonia is fine, too. shrift might have something to say about it, too.

It's in Detroit proper.

I'm pretty sure I'm saying no. I'm just waiting until tomorrow to actually send the email, to make sure that I'm sure of it.

I'm hoping I get the job in Cincinnati. I'm not supposed to get an answer from them until next week, probably.

If not, my newly revised Plan B is to go live with my parents for a little while, and get a part-time job around there (maybe adjuncting, maybe teaching at one of those Mathnasium places or something) and use the rest of my time to get my programming skills up to speed and build up a portfolio of programming projects, then start applying for programming jobs.

Hil, I'm holding out for Plan A to work out exactly as you're hoping, but if it comes down to it, I'd be honored to help any way I can on your programming path.

Thanks. My programming skills right now are kind of scattershot -- I've done enough math involving graph theory and things like that so that I'm totally comfortable with stuff like algorithm run time and search algorithms, and I tend to pick up programming languages pretty quickly, but there's no one language that I can say that I'm really good at -- I can get Python to do what I want it to do, but I know there are better ways to do a lot of it, and it's been years since I've really used C and C++. I'm working through the Free Code Camp tutorials now -- got through HTML and CSS pretty quickly, since those were fairly basic and I've seen them before, then learned some jQuery, and now I'm working through the JavaScript sections. Even if I do get an academic job, I'm going to try to finish this program, because I'm having fun with it, and, after you finish all the tutorials, they match you up with non-profits that are looking for people to put together websites or apps for them, and doing something useful would be good.

Very cool! I'd seen the name Free Code Camp before, but I haven't really looked at what they do until know. The nonprofit angle is sweet.

They try to encourage you to do some of the exercises with pair programming through Screen Hero, and they've got a chat room set up where you can look for people to pair with, but I tried that earlier today, and there were about ten of us there, none working on the same exercise, and most of the exercises just take a few minutes to do, so even if you ask "Someone want to work with me on 16?" and then someone responds five minutes later, you might be done with it already. It's a good idea, but they need to work on the logistics a bit more.

I'm hoping I get the job in Cincinnati.

Me too!