off: going to california

[John H. McCartney]

>
> I'm packing up my apartment, life, and fiancee, and moving to the
> Sunnyvale, CA, area.

Hey, just up the road...

>I'd like to pick your brains about the
> greater SanFran area, including:
>
> - good music stores to sate my HW/PTree/BSYBE fix

Compact Disc Warehouse (Sunnyvale), Rasputins (San Jose/Berkeley/San
Leandro/etc.) Streetlight (San Jose/SF), Amoeba (Berkeley/SF). And of
course there's always Tower.

> - good places to look to live (I'll be in temp housing for 2 months)
>   that are not insanely expensive (I'm already planning on $2000/month
>   for rent, but I don't like it!)

Uh, let me know where your job will be, and what kind of a place you're
looking for and I can make some specific reccomendations. Commute issues
are important, complex, and ugly!

> - what do first time movers to SF, CA need to know/do (car emissions?
>   registrations? licenses? etc.)?

Register within 10 days (law), though you should be able to slide until
you have moved into a place and have a "permanent" address.

> - I'll probably move out in part, then moving my fiancee out next
>   year; what are the types of clothes I need there for winter (vs.
>   in Kansas City, which gets fairly cold)

No where near as cold as that! In this area it's rare for it to get below
freezing for the nighttime low, day lows at the coldest are usually in the
low 50's. Snow at this level is a once a decade or 2 experience, and it's
just a dusting. Snow in the local ridges happens a few times each winter.
Mostly just rain, occasional hail.

>     I am gray.  I stand between the candle, and the star.
>         We are gray.  We stand between the darkness, and the light.
>
>               --- "And The Sky Full of Stars," _Babylon 5_


We can always use more B 5 fans!



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