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Rym and Scott life update?
I haven't been listening to the show in rather a long time and we haven't been doing FNPL. I've completely lost track of what the Rym & Scott are up to. The last I remember, Rym was buying a house. Can someone give me a brief summary of the last few months of what's been happening?
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BUTTSEX!
Thaed,
They ran many many panels at many various conventions which were all a success. Rym bought a house. Scott's moving into an apartment. They are up to bigger and better things. That's pretty much it. They said they're going to do a "State of the Podcast" episode soon.
I didn't want to say when I stopped listening, but I think it was April (and that has nothing to do with their show, my whole internet focus changed).
One more question though. Whatever happened to the Geekhaus or is that just like The Barge?
This world is awfully big, and boys this time, you're all alone.
My hopes is that we'll get fewer episodes, but maybe longer, higher quality episodes, since it'll probably be only convenient for them to meet once a week or so. Who knows. Maybe it'll still be two a week.
I remember that FNPL (oh, I'll miss FNPL) and generally take the middle ground. I have a group of friends who I chat with every day online, and have done for the past 9 years. I didn't go to college with them, but the internet does allow for a wide ranging group of close friends who are often more helpful and sympathetic than family members. It isn't often that the 15 of us ever meet as a whole group, but daily communication can sometimes mean more than annual get togethers.
However, Monday I am signing a lease on an apartment in the city. It's uber fancy. Rym is still dealing with beaurocracy in order to get his house. Lots of papers and moneys flying around. He tells me as soon as the closing date is set, then he's good. If it falls through, he gets a bunch of moneys back.
Also, I know Thaed sees this as an "I told you so" moment. It's not hard to see why. The truth is that the geekhaus is not dead. It has simply grown. It has a large space upstate and a city apartment, and space in Albany, and space in PA, and space in TX, and so on and so on. In New York, rich people have apartments in the city, to live in during the work week, and they have houses in the Hamptons to live in on weekends and vacation. Since we are not rich, we can achieve this luxury in this way instead.
Primarily, not living in the city was becoming an issue. I have a lot of geeky things I want to accomplish, and commuting was making that very difficult. The enormous cost of a city apartment is well worth the almost two hours I will save every single day. Also, there have been more and more occurrences lately where we have wanted to attend events in the city, often geeky ones, and have been unable to do so because we live so far away. The city apartment enables us to go to shows, concerts, conventions, meetups, clubs, classes, games, and what have you, without having to worry about what time the train home is.
If we were geeks with more rural jobs, the geek haus probably would have remained a single house, if not an entire plantation. The realities of being city-working people, not wives and kids and other suburban priorities, are the reasons for this moving.
Also, personally, I just get agitated by stability. I always have to be moving and shaking. Throughout my entire life, I have rarely had as much stability and consistency than I have had over the past years.
I lived in Queens from when I was 0 to 1.
I lived in Bridgeport, CT from when I was 1 to 2.
I lived in Trumbull, CT from when I was 2-18 BUT
I switch from pre-school to elementary school, to middle school to high school. Also, each year of school was a pretty significant change. The change was made more significant by changing grades each year, and different activities every single summer.
Then I went to Israel for a month.
Then I went to RIT. At RIT I moved once from dorms to apartments. I also had classes changing every 10 weeks, and also different summer activities every year, and also jobs and co-ops that mixed it up.
Then I lived at home while working for a handful of weeks.
Then I moved to where I am now, and worked for a year in the city.
Then I had that same job and worked in the middle of nowhere for about a year.
Then I switched to the other job for 2 years.
Only recently did I get the new job at broadway.com, and I'm still living in the same place.
The rate of change has significantly declined in my life. I've been living in the same place for 4-5 years, and recently held jobs for 2 years at a time. That's a long time without any mix-ups. Being so antsy, I had to make some kind of change.
If anything, this only makes the probability of a true Geek Haus greater. With more time in the day, there is an incredibly large amount of time we will be able to spend on doing all the things that have, up until now, stayed in the hopper or been classified as "shit-talking."
And as to FNPL, the fault is entirely mine. I've been wrapped up in other stuff.
Am I the only one who isn't "Whoa!" about this. Just because they aren't living together doesn't mean their bond is broken. Things change. No big deal.