After moving out of school on Wednesday, May 11, moving to Charlotte on Saturday, May 14, and starting at IBM on Monday, May 16, I’m finally ready to breathe.

It’s just fun walking around, finding where things are, driving there, getting lost, and, of course, working.

I’m in Charlotte working at IBM on business-class content analytics, which basically means that the software is designed to extract data from documents and crunch it to see if there’s something that can help you. It’s been really great so far, as everybody’s willing to help the new guy: new to the city, the company, and the product.

Walking downtown to the bus

The division of IBM that works on this has an office in downtown Charlotte, where maybe only ten people out of the floor are working on the product with me, and that means hitting up the bus every day and riding in, which is really easy, if not that inexpensive.

Bank of America Stadium from my office

I’m staying at an apartment-style dorm at Queens University in the beautiful Myers Park neighborhood, also where many of my coworkers live. It’s not too shabby, and not too expensive. All I really care about is the fact that there is Ethernet and power sockets .

There’ll be more stuff here as things liven up a little more.