Mar 03 2005
Personal Update
This is mostly for people who know me but might be behind on what’s been going on.
To start with, my marriage (of 14 years) finally fell apart in summer 2003, in the midst of my sojourn working in Northern Virginia.
Fast forward to March 2004. I decide to leave Adaption Software (which I started with Pat Welsh) and join ThoughtWorks. I finished with Adaption in early July, and started at ThoughtWorks in late July.
July was an interesting month, I bought a house in semi-rural Nova Scotia (about 15 minutes down the highway from where I was before), bought a nice, new Nissan Pathfinder, and met & fell in love with a fabulous woman (Nancy Blenkhorn. Nancy is simply amazing. Anyone else have a girlfriend with her own server farm? Or who can set up their wifi for them? And of course, she’s beautiful, sexy, and fun too.
The house took a while to get furnished and “homey”, but it’s comfortable now, and very cozy.
Fast forward to the present. DiamlerChrysler made it worth my while to leave ThoughtWorks to stay when our involvement ended. So I’m contracting relatively drectly to DiamlerChrysler now, onsite in Detroit every other week. Part of the deal was being able to work from home part of the time.
So I’ve set up shop at home, and replaced my ThoughtWorks issued WinDoze laptop with a shiney white 14″ iBook G4, as per my last posting.