New Place! New Job!

On July 2nd, Kerstin and I will move into this lovely home! It's a 2 bedroom / 1 bath in a newly-designated Historic Neighborhood in Phoenix. The rent is reasonable and the location is perfect. It's about 2 miles from...My new job at the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ). May 30 was my first day as an Environmental Program Specialist, aka a Project Manager. I work in the Water Quality Division, in a unit called APP & Reuse. I process applications and write permits in the Aquifer Protection Program. The ADEQ website says:

These permits protect groundwater and surface water quality by controlling discharges from domestic wastewater treatment plants, mining operations, stormwater discharges to drywells, industrial facilities, on-site sewage disposal systems and direct reuse of reclaimed water.

The job is pretty cool, and our Unit has some great people.

This next week will be interesting, to say the least. Until today, I still had some stuff in a self-storage place near Arcosanti. Now Kerstin and I will be threading our way through boxes until next weekend when the movers take it all to the new house.

Pet Update:
Our cats Tigger and Mick are bewildered by the changes in their apartment, but otherwise fine. The leopard gecko finally has a name: Gizzard the lizard! Once we move in, we're planning to set up an aquarium. It will most likely be a fresh water tank, but it might be fun to try salt this time.