My Big Move
February 16th, 2010 -- Posted in Uncategorized | 24 Comments »First off I’ll say this: Of course I’m not leaving Hak5, you’re being silly. Stop that nonsense.
So, I wanted to give everyone a thorough update on why I’m in Missouri all of a sudden. My dad has been diagnosed with a disease and was put in the hospital about half a year ago. Ever since that time, I’ve been trying to visit my family as much as possible over the holidays and everything so that I can see him and possibly help him recover. His disease isn’t life threatening, just very long term. As much as I didn’t want to be one of those ‘always comes back to Waynesville’ people, I thought it was the right thing to do given my dad’s condition. Who know? Perhaps my being able to visit him more often will help him! I’ll be in Missouri as long as I have to stay here. This move is temporary. I don’t plan on picking up a job here or anything, since I will be doing Hak5 and being paid for that. Also, so I don’t get bored, I’m thinking about selling Lia Sophia jewelry. Yeh, I’m a girl. Don’t judge me.
A few months ago I was looking around my town of Williamsburg, VA and thought “wow, there really aren’t any places for 20-somethings to hang out around here…” I had already seen everything and done everything in the city, and knew that Hak5 wasn’t going to go anywhere being stuck in that small town. This is where CES 2010 came in and Darren and I were seriously considering moving to a big city… like, San Francisco. Well, given the family situation I’ve been having, I’m staying in Missouri TEMPORARILY. Darren is going to be moving to San Francisco. Luckily, he already has a place lined up and friends to show him around town. Since moving to another city and trying to sell an owned house takes some time, it’ll probably be a few months til everything has been moved to the west coast. In the meantime, Darren is in the UK throwing a few big meetups (search: Hak5 Meetup on Facebook), and then he is taking his bike cross country to SF!
Hak5! What about Hak5 until he moves? Well, there will be a UK show and some shows somewhere in the states. As far as my segments- I have a camera, a light, and a stand for my netbook, so I can still do segments and transfer the files to Darren.
Whats up with the site? We’ve been in the process of moving the site to a new host and updating a lot of the information. Until the site is restored, which will probably be a week (since the host is in another country atm!) you can get your technolust at http://www.revision3.com/hak5. Also, Revision3 has forums if you’ve never checked those out.
And Kerby? Kerby is staying with me. With the host moving to SF and selling the house, the car is also going to be sold. Although Kerby would look adorable with a pair of goggles and a scarf and helmet for the motorcycle, we thought it less traumatic to just take her in my car to Missouri. Kerby has adopted me and luckily my family loves her already.
I think that pretty much covers it. I’m looking forward to new beginnings!
