First by moving on.. I will be staying around here.. Though it is pretty likely that I will be doing it from a new address. I am as everyone knows a technology guy. I also am a rare technology guy that spent years making the backend systems at a big gaming company not just work, but also work better. There are a few things about the gaming industry.. Once you have discovered that its a world you can excel in it is fairly difficult to work in other industries as the pace of the real world is no longer going to be a match. The other thing to know about the gaming industry is that it is a world where everyone knows everyone. So, if you have a reputation for being good at what you do there is a pretty good chance that the industry will find a new home for you. It just might take a while. So, since Midway went under I spent some time hating life at Turbine and had a great experience at Wizards of the Coast, and made the bad mistake of turning down the OPS manager job at PopCap and also turned down the chance to be the guy that built an ops department from scratch at Addmired, they are now a couple hundred employees and PopCap got bought by EA. I just got an offer, a very good offer at Gazillion.. They are the game company that had the brass balls required to buy _all_ the gaming right to the Marvel Universe right around the time that the first IronMan movie came out. Since then the Marvel Universe has grown into a multi billion dollar a year pile of IP. With a load of moves, as of this fall a couple of TV shows and the list goes on and on... I flew down there a month ago and the last few weeks have been spent negotiating on well everything.. My wife pointed out a few weeks ago that my two favorite things in the word are working in gaming, and negotiating pay.. So, I singed scanned and emailed the offer back this morning, so looks like despite my best efforts we will be living in the Bay Area for a while... A few things make it worth my while. 1. the company will exit, 2. when they do they will make a bunch of new millionaires.. So, I figure why not do the things I really like to do and work towards a really amazing reward at the same time. In the meanwhile, I am still working on the schedualforge side project.. With the advantage that in SFO I will have a much easier time finding a board moble/html5 front end coder than I will up in SEA.. The only thing is, I really find the idea of moving to California kind of gross...