We made it!  Driving a moving truck almost 2000 miles across America was no picnic (it gets HOT in Arizona) but ~4 days of travel were relatively uneventful (only one flat tire!). Pretty much everything made it intact, including a few hundred pounds of lab benches and equipment.  (Note to self, next time get twice as many moving pads as seems necessary!)

My wife and I have been getting acquainted with our new city.  One of the interesting/unique things about Austin is the local trailer food scene.  One example, shown below, is odd duck, where you can purchase local, sustainable, gourmet wood fired food out of a trailer in South Austin.  Yum.

The biggest downside to Austin I have found so far (aside from the lack of In-n-Out and Trader Joe’s) has been the pitiful upstream bandwidth that Time Warner provides with their Roadrunner internet service.   Check out these Speedtest results:

Holy asymmetric internet access, Batman!

Compare those results with this test I ran before I packed up my computer in San Francisco:

Over 4 megabits!  If only I knew how lucky I was on Comcast when I could upload entire Flickr albums and HD videos in minutes!

Time Warner – 512K?  Really?

Ok, that’s enough for now – time to unpack the power supplies and oscilloscope.

PS. I almost forgot.  There are a few pictures of the move on Flickr.

I apologize for the slow updates as of late, but I have some big news that I would like to share with you:

MightyOhm is moving to Austin, Texas!

While the move should be pretty much transparent to anyone reading the blog, there will be a lot going on behind the scenes in the next few weeks.  Most significantly, orders placed after July 9th will not be shipped before August 1st. The move will continue to take time away from the blog as I figure out how to move an electronics lab across three states.  Don’t expect too many posts in the next few weeks!

I am sad to be leaving San Francisco (and the many friends I have made in this wonderful city), but I’m eager to explore a new city, meet new friends, and make Austin my home.  Once I get settled, I would really like to meet some other electronics geeks in the area.  If anyone who reads the blog lives in or near Austin, please send me an e-mail or comment below to say hello!

That reminds me: Does anyone know where to find surplus electronic parts in Austin?  If you do, please post a comment here or add it to the wiki.  As soon as I unpack, I’ll be looking for local substitutes for Silicon Valley’s HSC and Weird Stuff.

That’s all for now.  Time to pack up my soldering iron and oscilloscope!