Happy Thanksgiving!
Me Originally uploaded by tangentier Just a quick note wishing you and yours a happy Thanksgiving! I give thanks to my wonderful friends and family for their love and support, for my health and job, and for unknown blessings already on their way!

The Beginning of an End
It’s been some time since I’ve written. I’m in the middle of some pretty large life changes. I’m in the middle of divorce proceedings. On top of that, I’m changing jobs. My employer had been an independent software shop. It was bought by a big financial giant right before I was hired on. Recently, a lot of the old guard management left, leaving the big giant management to fill the void. There has been a large culture shift for our little agile company doing distributed systems work going into a mainframe, brick and mortar style world. My last project as an employee for them is to produce an internal presentation on PCI compliance and