Did you miss me?
Due to an ISP provider change, my web site has been down since mid-January. Now, the content had gone dormant anyway, but then I really didn’t have a reason to update it. Knowing that I didn’t want to live here forever, and knowing that my blog isn’t exactly the center of my online life, I left it be. I told the people on Twitter a few times that it was defunct, there was no real outcry for it. But, oh, how things can change in three months.
So, how is the site back online? Well, I’m moving. And the new home is on the old ISP (the one who lets me host this website from my home Internet connection). I’m in the process of getting all my stuff transposed, but my main equipment (my main computer and my server) and now up and running at their new home. So that’s cool. It’ll be fun learning to live somewhere else again. Six years is a long time to get familiar with a place. I wonder how many times I’ll take the wrong exit from the freeway.
Some routine has returned to my life. Every Saturday night, I’ve been going bowling with some friends. There’s usually about five of us, though this week there’s going to be 10. I wrote an article about this weekly bowling event this time last year. So, if you’re interested in joining me one week, let me know on the Twitter.
Oh, and I got a job. I’m working as a software developer for a web hosting company here in Bellevue. I was hired on the eight-month anniversary of my last day at my old job. Some advantages of the new digs: short commute, lower stress than my old job, and I’m not really working on anything that’s “customer-critical.” The environment is taking a little getting used to, so we’ll see how that goes.
Where does that leave this blog? Well, the “professional bum” bit is retired. I’ll go back to more of the long-form articles than the short-form daily posts, since the daily posts were growing old and stale anyway. How many times can you really say “Got up, made breakfast, bummed around, felt really angsty about things, yelled at some kids to get off my lawn, and went to bed”?
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