New Year, New Challenges

I figured it out. Worked it out mathematically, and I have spent almost half of my life working for my current employer in various capacities. I've worked at two different locations across the country. For a time I worked in a home office for them, serving both locations with a 14.4 modem, a fax machine and a phone with two lines so I could do computer / fax with voice at the same time (needless to say, I was hot shit back then.)

Remember that 14.4 modem sound?



Those were the days.

Twenty Five years. Ronald Reagan was President when I started working for this company. There are maybe a half dozen people who are still working there from when I started. And, for the past sixteen years, I've lived in the same house. It's the longest I've ever lived in one location.

It's never easy, with so much invested, to say good bye.

But this week, I am saying good bye to the company I have worked with for half of my life.

Sometimes, an opportunity comes along, and you just have to take it. A young company navigating a bold new business proposition. In Silicon Valley, they are growing at break neck speed. Run by a man who I have a rare admiration for, and struggling to keep up with the demands on it, I could not resist the generous offer.

So, I will be moving across the USA for the third time in my life. In the coming months, I'll be blogging about this impending move.

For now, I'll be working from my current home, a little taste of those 14.4 days, but with DSL and a cell phone, email, internet and remote access and all.

I'll be busy. Busy as hell, methinks. Preparing a house for sale, learning new technology and new business principles, traveling to the location of my new job to meet the team, and scouting new houses.

So while I may not blog so often, I think I'll have a lot to blog about.

I hope you'll come along on the ride with me.

Oh, and if you'd like to buy a little memento of my impending journey, you can keep an eye on this new blog, created and managed by my lovely and talented wife, DeDe, where we are selling off stuff that has collected over the years.