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Everybody, meet Ben. Ben, meet everybody!

Ben is BitPusher’s newest Sr. Systems Engineer. I just stole him from ClearWire and he starts this coming Monday. We’re all very excited to have him!

Activities have been high, and growth has been steady. Things are looking up here in Seattle.

After four months here in the northern reaches of our Pacific coast, I have to say that coming up this way has been a good idea. The weather’s been good, even when it’s been bad. See, I like the rain.

We’re settled into our house, we have made a friend or two, and there are other good things goin’ on with and around us. Between a party or two, enjoying fresh Veggies from Pati’s garden and going out shooting things with a camera with Pati, Linda and Michael, it’s been good so far.

Speaking of shooting, Michael and Pati are both into photography, but of different natures. I’ll end this with a shot taken on Friday by Michael at Kerry Park in Queen Ann.

Well, back to building out that next cabinet.

I’m very happy to introduce myself as the newest member of the BitPusher crew. Michael and Daniel have asked me to be the Office Manager for the new offices that are to be opening soon at data center here in Seattle.

Having also recently moved here from San Francisco Bay Area, I am very excited to be able to explore a whole new place. The Puget Sound and Canada are both places that have been on my long list of places to visit.

I can’t wait for our new offices to open, as well as grow with the company!

–Pati

Pati became a BitPusher on June 4th, 2007. Here she is sporting the latest in BitPusher’s line of blue fedoras. Pati is BitPusher’s first Executive Assistant, and will be wearing more hats than they have at The Hat Guys in Oakland, CA.

I appear to have moved to Seattle. Suddenly, my surroundings are different, and my bed 99% closer to the datacenter.

The house is old, but still standing (actually, it’s quite nice) at it’s centenial year. It’s big, red, and has a commanding view, not to mention $4 cheaper than my 20% smaller apartment in San Jose. Big apartment versus bigger house for a frapaccino less in cash. You do the math.

The story is this: Michael flew me up here to Seattle to do some work for him. Then he moved up here, moved the datacenter up here, and flew me up here to do work for him a few more times. It went on like this for months, when suddenly, I’m unloading a truck into the new house.

It’s nice up here, and it’s good to be able to get to the datacenter in under 4 hours. The food in SJ is better, but the people up here seem nicer, in general. Nice people are often unsuspecting.

In the meantime, I’ll post again in a week, after I get all those machines I lugged with me installed and ready for new or expanding customers.

TTFN-

Dirk R

Kaylee Jayne Halligan became BitPusher’s latest staff member at  4:03 AM on February 1st, 2007. She’s 20″ tall, and weighs 7 lbs, 9 oz. Kaylee will be heading up our  new Logistics & World Domination division.

Dirk is one of BitPusher’s newest employees. He’s been with us on a part-time basis for about 6 weeks, and becomes full-time January 1st. To celebrate this, I jumped the gun a bit, and took him to The Hat Guys in Oakland, for his blue fedora.

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