I lack ArcDesktop on my laptop. At development time months ago, I was in need of the web ADF for the DOTNET environment on my laptop so I went ahead and uninstalled the build of the Desktop environment that I was running so that I could get Server running and get access to that API. So now, three weeks after graduation I want to go back and work on updating a custom tool I built back in April, but to do that I need to drive back to Akron (I “relocated” back to Columbus over the holiday weekend). I’ll spare you the techno babble for now except to say that I am passing on rebuilding the tool in flex and I’m not really interested in developing a user interface blind, so I’m not building in Python or Eclipse, which brings us back to the DOTNET environment; cycles after all.
So the drive back here this morning did give me the opportunity to process the fact that Columbus isn’t home anymore. The landscape is still similar enough to when I left that I recognize it, but it just feels a bit foreign now. And so I’m in Akron, a city I was very recently all too eager to get out of, trying to figure out how I can eek out and find an interesting gig in this Shrinking waning region of the country.
And THERE it is folks, the official declaration, I will relocate for/to the highest bidder, and I have locations that are higher than others on my “big board” but Akron/Cleveland are higher on the list than my hometown of Columbus (neither are number 1)
