Madison is one of the most beautiful cities I experienced in US. Though Omaha has its own charm, Madison is something different, guess you have to see it to believe it.
It was funny how I ended up in Madison...
After having a blast for almost 2 months in Omaha after graduation-no-job-yet experience, I finally moved to Milwaukee to stay with my brother and was applying for jobs. In the mean time I was exploring Milwaukee and the third season of HIMYM. Since I already knew that I was moving to Milwaukee I started applying for jobs even before I moved, from Omaha. When I got a call while busily packing for Colorado trip from one of the jobs I applied online, I thought that was the end of the conversation. I was asked if I had a few minutes to talk. I said that it wasnt a good time and asked if I could talk later and was told it'll be just 10 minutes. Their 10 minutes was my 45 minutes. Since I was already getting late I did not put my best foot forward in that call. But I got one more call before the face2face interview. I was applying for jobs on milwaukeejobs.com since I was planning to stay with my brother as my parents always wanted. I assumed that the site had jobs only from Milwaukee. When I was finally ready for the interview I realized the company was in Madison which was 90 minute drive from Milwaukee and thats when I knew the milwaukeejobs site had jobs from all over the state of WISCONSIN. Since it was my first interview I thought I might as well take a shot. So after 2 hours of interviewing I was in a dilemma about the job mostly thinking about what happens if I get it. After a week I got a verbal offer on phone. I took it after a brief negotiation and started preparing for my move. I made a few trips from Milwaukee to Madison in search of a place to live. So, when I was exploring Madison for the first time, it was a bag of big complex routes with one ways every where, especially in the downtown are. One time I came, made a few rounds and got confused and took a U-turn to Milwaukee. My phone's charge was over so I couldnt get anyone to help me out. I put up a classified ad on Madindians site and some one called me to share a studio apartment in downtown. After little over a month in downtown we moved closer to the company and thats where my Madison gang started!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Omaha Odyssey: First Encounter with Cops..
Actually there are two incidents that would serve the situation. Let me start with the first one...Kill Bill Vol I
It was the beginning of my first semester in the fall of 05. Soon after we settled in our new apartment back in Omaha, it dint take long for us to realize the drawbacks of not having music/movies/internet at home. Renting a laptop from university occasionally gave us some room to breathe, but still a standalone system that you could lay your hands on any time is a different thing. I saw a notice in our department building about some old IBM systems being sold for cheap. So I immediately talked to the sys admin guy who happened to be a good acquaintance already. So we managed to get a decent no-games-playable system for around $37. I brought the keyboard, mouse and monitor somehow but the CPU remained in the lab for a while as I did not get a chance to find some one for transportation as the CPU was heavy....its IBM afterall and our apartment was 10 minute walk from university.Finally I decided to carry it myself. When I was ready to pick it up, my roomie was ready to help me out but the only problem was it was around midnight. I couldnt let the CPU be in the lab any longer so we made a deal to carry it halfway till our room. My roomie lifted it till his shoulders and we started walking. As soon as we steeped outside of our building and took a few steps, I saw some flashing lights at a distance. With in no time, the Campus Security vehicle was in front of us and two cops were walking towards us. I explained them that I paid for the system and couldnt find any other time to take it home. He asked my friend to put the CPU down and looked at the university barcode and noted it down. Then he noted our names. I told him that I worked in the building as RA and had the access. Obviously he thought that we were taking away CPUs from the lab, obviously foolish...who would think of robbing a p3 with 256mb RAM, 30GB hard disk, god knows what the speed was...I mean the lab had much...much better systems. So after the discussion was over I kind of got pissed off for being blamed for such a cheap act of burglary. So I asked him if he could drop us at our apartment which I said would give him enough evidence for later...just in case!So, he dropped us both at our apartment and we had a good laugh about it later.
I finally got the transportation for getting my system home. However it took a while for us to install windows ("genuine") and start using it. By the way did I tell you that it just had a CD reader and no speakers....daaaarnnnn!!!
The second encounter happened almost a year later...with the actual cops(police), so I have to justify by taking a pause here.....Stay tuned.
It was the beginning of my first semester in the fall of 05. Soon after we settled in our new apartment back in Omaha, it dint take long for us to realize the drawbacks of not having music/movies/internet at home. Renting a laptop from university occasionally gave us some room to breathe, but still a standalone system that you could lay your hands on any time is a different thing. I saw a notice in our department building about some old IBM systems being sold for cheap. So I immediately talked to the sys admin guy who happened to be a good acquaintance already. So we managed to get a decent no-games-playable system for around $37. I brought the keyboard, mouse and monitor somehow but the CPU remained in the lab for a while as I did not get a chance to find some one for transportation as the CPU was heavy....its IBM afterall and our apartment was 10 minute walk from university.Finally I decided to carry it myself. When I was ready to pick it up, my roomie was ready to help me out but the only problem was it was around midnight. I couldnt let the CPU be in the lab any longer so we made a deal to carry it halfway till our room. My roomie lifted it till his shoulders and we started walking. As soon as we steeped outside of our building and took a few steps, I saw some flashing lights at a distance. With in no time, the Campus Security vehicle was in front of us and two cops were walking towards us. I explained them that I paid for the system and couldnt find any other time to take it home. He asked my friend to put the CPU down and looked at the university barcode and noted it down. Then he noted our names. I told him that I worked in the building as RA and had the access. Obviously he thought that we were taking away CPUs from the lab, obviously foolish...who would think of robbing a p3 with 256mb RAM, 30GB hard disk, god knows what the speed was...I mean the lab had much...much better systems. So after the discussion was over I kind of got pissed off for being blamed for such a cheap act of burglary. So I asked him if he could drop us at our apartment which I said would give him enough evidence for later...just in case!So, he dropped us both at our apartment and we had a good laugh about it later.
I finally got the transportation for getting my system home. However it took a while for us to install windows ("genuine") and start using it. By the way did I tell you that it just had a CD reader and no speakers....daaaarnnnn!!!
The second encounter happened almost a year later...with the actual cops(police), so I have to justify by taking a pause here.....Stay tuned.
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