Recently in personal Category

I don't normally talk about personal things on this blog, but it's been a landmark couple of days around here, so I thought I'd set them down. On Friday, I gave my notice at Pix, where I've worked for more than two and a half years. This coming Friday night will be my last shift. If you're free and in Portland, I encourage you to come down for a visit -- especially those of you who've been in before during my shifts or even made it a habit. I'll miss the place and the people, but it's definitely past time for me to be doing something else.

Speaking of which, a couple of my Less Distracted cohorts and I have put up our Ruby on Rails contract development and consultancy shingle (that's a bit of a misnomer for what we did, since the enterprise has neither a name nor a home, but anyway, we're open for business) and over the weekend we landed our first client. I guess that (combined with the quitting) officially makes me a professional Rails developer which somehow manages to sound even stranger when I say it aloud than it feels -- which is saying something.

Plus, by the time you read this, we'll probably have locked final mixes on the new At Dusk album, a moment about eighteen months in the making. Now, there's still some stuff left before the record's finished (we have to give it a name, settle on art, and send the mixes off to mastering), but this is a giant step.

Anyway, all of this good stuff snuck up on me and then all struck at once. And I'm 26. I feel like I need to have a second Bar Mitzvah or something. . .