Whirlwind

I haven't been posting much lately. Sure, the occasional "hey this link is cool", but not much in the way of thoughtful discourse. The reason is that I'm currently caught up in a whirlwind of activity because of some changes coming.

The biggest: I'm leaving Intel after seven and a half years. It's a great company and I wrestled with the decsion a lot, but I had a great opportunity come up at Microsoft that I felt I had to take. (More on the new job after I understand my new employer's stance on employee blogging and such - not that it will stop me, I just want to know how much hot water I'll be in :-)

The precipitate of that decision is that:

• I have to wrap up my current job's activities, including team mid-year reviews (time consuming management stuff)
• start ramping some knowledge in the domain of the new job
• put our house up on the market and sell it
• oh, and learn what's involved in selling a house as I've never done that before
• work logistics of the move and temp housing and such
• figure out what's involved in changing health insurance coverage (ah, how simple it was in canada)
• cash in stock options (CHA CHING! well, cha-ching! anyway)
• start looking for a new house

At some point, me, wife, kids, dogs, and fat-keister-feline all have to pack into a caravan and head north.

Anyhow, all to say I've been a little busy.

We now return you to regularly scheduled programming :-)