Well I do believe that my last post was on the order of almost five years ago. Many things have happened since that time, including blogger adopting a new login scheme which provided just enough disincentive to login to my account and update my blog.
Recently, as I reflected on all of the new changes that have happened in life, I began to lament the negligence with which I have kept this blog- after all, globalwobble.blogspot.com is a pretty badass URL, and one with powerful symbolism. The global wobble is a phenomenon which causes a cyclical weather pattern on earth, and leads to a repeating cycle of rebirth of the planet. What better concept to epitomize the way in which one’s life goes through changes and cycles, periods of warming and cooling, of life and death, of hope and despair.
In the past five years, I have gotten married to a lovely lady (while it seems like it was just yesterday when we were walking in the fan in historic Richmond, prompting me to write my previous post). We ended up choosing a small house in a rundown part of Richmond known as Church Hill, and with the recent birth of our first son Isaac only a few weeks ago, we will be forced to look towards the ‘burbs for a larger place.
I have finally taken the plunge into management, stepping down from an active programming position at my company, and taking a leadership role over about 10 or so engineers. Being a manager is different than I expected, and has an entirely new set of challenges than when I was an “army of one” programmer. Most days I miss being able to sit at my desk by myself and go into a technical guru mode, but I hope that as the team grows stronger, that I will have the time to immerse myself in a little pool of tech, perhaps pioneering some next gen work that I can feed back into the team.
Either way, blah blah blah, im back, and I hope to be posting regularly, casting my proverbial message in a bottle unto the abyss.
