And so begins my last week at Linuxcare, as I hand over the reigns to my successor, Rodney.
It’s a bittersweet time in my career, because I usually leave a job only when I feel I have outgrown it. This time, my employer has outshrunk me.
Such is life, though. I take with me some very valuable lessons, many of them non-technical.
Sunday was spent looking for a new apartment in Palo Alto, which Sarah and I will move into some time in August or September. We saw a couple of decent ones in complexes, but the rents are pretty steep because of all the extra facilities they include that we’ll never use.
I would like to live on the corner of Homer and Emerson, since there’s a Whole Foods, a Mexican restaurant, and a good breakfast place, all at that intersection. Getting a place around there will be a pretty tall order, though.
We spent time with a couple of Sarah’s friends this weekend, so didn’t get an awful lot done. I downloaded Mozilla 0.9.1, which took two hours over a modem and then another three to compile on my laptop.
I’m kind of looking forward to my time off work next week, although not as much as I would be if I still lived in Amsterdam. I don’t have many friends in the Bay Area, don’t have a computer at home, don’t have DSL, etc. It could be a lonely time and I definitely don’t want to end up watching daytime TV, since American TV is the worst in the civilized world as far as I’m concerned.
Maybe I’ll go travelling, although international travel will be out of the question because of visa considerations. Santa Fe would be nice, but Sarah wants us to go there together. Maybe I’ll head up to Washington and visit Mount St. Helens. I don’t really feel like travelling alone, though.
Whatever happens, Linuxcare and I will have parted company by the end of this coming Friday. So ends another chapter in my illustrious career.