Bye Texas, Hello Alabama
It was a hard decision to make, leaving family, friends, and home for a promising new job in a city 600+ miles away. The job was exactly the type of work I want to be doing. It’s new, challenging, and cutting-edge. The town is certainly smaller, about twice the size/population of Lubbock. We miss visiting family on a regular basis, our favorite restaurants, and our comfortable home. We moved into an apartment close to where I work and once the house sells we will look into buying a house in Madison. A few of the restaurants we desperately miss are Pot Belly’s, Free Birds, Genghis Grill, and a number of Tex-Mex places. We’ve tried about five Mexican food places and only two of them were good. A few of the things I’ve learned so far are:
1. They don’t serve hot sauce and chips, they serve salsa and chips.
2. Use any available bottled hot sauce to mix into the salsa.
3. Mexican food and Tex-Mex isn’t the same thing (pay attention to what they say they serve).
4. A buffet of Mexican food is just gross.
Still Looking
I haven’t updated my blog in a while. I’ve been looking for a new job and about a month after being laid off, went to work as a contractor for the very same company that me go. It was a bit odd going back to work in a place I thought I would never see again. Pulling up in the parking lot the first day I had to laugh to myself, but I went back to work like I never left. My computer was still there and nothing had really changed.
During my time looking for a different job I created a new website with the domain name, www.paulhatfield.me, to keep my work separated from my blog. The website URL ends with “me”, because “com” was taken. My resume and screen-shots of the work I have done can be viewed on that website.
Also in my spare time I’ve been working to port the screen saver that I worked on several years ago to Linux and I have also been geocaching. A trip or two ago Alexis and I ran into more inhabitants, which will probably increase as things become greener. This will be our first summer geocaching and we expect the heat and humidity to rise. Our plan is to hit the trail early in the morning and hope things are much cooler.
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- Crazy Looking Lizard
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- Wise Long Horn
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- This is what Poison Ivy looks like.
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- A Travel Bug
My Thesis Images
I’m re-posting some images from my thesis. I did this mainly to get two galleries on one page. Once the images were added in this post I added the following text to the Volume Rendering page:
[gallery id="388"] which pulls the images from this post into the page.
I’ve also recently learned that Texas Tech has published theses on a webpage. Here is where mine can be found: My Thesis
