...then life happens and throws you a curve you never saw coming.

Literally out of nowhere, I got an interview with Boeing in Everett, WA, just north of Seattle. I wasn't even trying, and somehow the biggest aircraft company in the world wanted to interview me. I never expected to get the job.

But I did, and for a lot more money than I ever dreamed. I have turned down so many jobs in the last year, all over the country, for reasons ranging from stupid to valid. I had my move to Denver all set. But this...I would be stupid to turn it down. I will be a flight line mechanic on the brand new 787 Dreamliner. It is, quite literally, my dream job.

I'll be in a union company, making more money than I ever have, with a list of benefits one can really only get with a huge company, working in the largest building by-volume in the entire world, on the most advanced airliner ever built. It doesn't GET any better.

And so, the fiesty little conservative is moving to one of the most liberal states in the country. Wish me luck. I have my new address, and should have my new phone number within a week or so. I'm also driving there instead of flying, so all of you who I know well in between Tulsa and Seattle, drop me a note. Maybe we can hook up on my way through town!

I'm also open to any suggestions about things to do in the Seattle/Everett area. You can leave out spoken word poetry night at Starbucks, or anything that screams hippie because it's really not my cup of tea. By the way...anyone know anything about the gun laws there? Concealed carry permits? Hunting?

I cannot stand it, I'm too excited.