July 2009 will forever go down in the Coulter Encyclopedia of History as the month with the most extraordinary life changes in a single 30-day timespan. There is so much to tell that I’m forced to gloss over many of the details (many of which you can get if you ping me personally), but it all seemed pretty amazing considering I’ve kept my sanity intact. Or so I think.

In no particular order:

1. New job! Today was my first day as a Software Quality Engineer at Intent Media, Inc. in Times Square. I can’t tell you anything about the company yet except to hint at their awesomeness, but I can tell you I’m extremely excited to be a part of this team. They’re a great group of people and I feel very welcome.
2. New Apartment! I moved to the Upper West Side July 1st, the new job cutting my commute down to less than fifteen minutes! I also have a new roommate, and she’s female — that’s a first. Though my stuff made it to the apartment by the 27th of June, I didn’t officially unpack everything until the 18th of July because I was…
3. Flying off to faraway places! The first place I visited was my hometown, Portland, Oregon. Though it was great to be home, family details prompted my visit making the trip bittersweet. But moving right along –
4. The second place I visited was the much more earthy Colorado Springs, Colorado. Not only did I get to spend time with awesome people (you know who you are), but I’m now on the board of directors for the Association for Software Testing and I am officially a CAST keynote speaker! The speech went great, and thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions!
5. I’m now on Twitter! You can find me here: http://twitter.com/timothyjcoulter (timothyjcoulter is blogging about cool stuff.)
   
6. I’m now living in Apple-land with a work-provided Macbook Pro. Later I’ll sync my iCal schedule with my iPhone so I can be on time for meetings at my new iJob! (Jokes aside, this is all new and exciting territory.)
7. Annnnnnd lastly, WAMU has become Chase, grumble grumble. Though this isn’t particularly life changing, Chase’s website is drastically lower quality when compared to WAMU’s website (where, of course, “quality is value to me“), and because of the differences, it greatly lowers my perception of my banks’ goods and services. I loved WAMU’s website, and I used it often. I feel like I’m being forced to use Chase, which… well, is pretty much true.

And I’m sure there’s something I’m forgetting. Regardless, it’s been a crazy month with big changes and lots of excitment.