A Coder's Notebook:

Oakland, California – After 18 months of living at Rosarito Beach (really called Playas de Rosarito), Baja California Norte, Mexico, I’m now living in the San Francisco Bay area, and recovering from a 24/7 Springbreak lifestyle. Now it’s time to look for a job and lead a more normal life for awhile, at least until I get tired of leading a “normal” life.

I made my first trip to the Bay area when I was 19 years old. It was 1982 and I was consulting out of the Computerland of Glendale store when someone from the Doctor’s Hospital of Pinole called the store searching for a programmer to program a machine that punch prints on plastic cards. I drove from Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles, to Pinole which is about 10 miles north of Berkeley, California, and I spent a few hours there writing a simple program to print patient information on plastic cards.

I’ll miss the constant 70 degree weather, and the many friends I made, the $100/pound weed, cheap cigarettes,  the young, pretty putas, and the ultra laidback lifestyle at Playas de Rosarito, B.C., Mexico. Maybe I’ll return to Rosarito in a year or two.

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