new bike to new job.
Job news: After three great years, I left Laszlo in January to find a new thing. I love those guys and have nothing but good things to say about them; I just needed a change of scenery. Still, go Laszlo! There's a pre-release of the long-awaited calendar app over at gowebtop.com and it's definitely worth seeing.
I spent a couple of months consulting on the nifty Songbird project, then I took a full-time position at Adobe(!). Yep -- the first Big Company in my 15+ year career. I'm a dev/UI lead on the Flex Builder team (yes! editor geeking), and I'm stoked. I'm surrounded by people who have shipped tons of great software, and I'm already learning a lot while swimming around in the deep end. If you're into this kind of thing, I started blogging about some of the wheedly editor features we're working on for Flex Builder 4. Man, WordPress is a joy. More on that soon.
And now that I'm working in the city, I can finally bike commute, which KICKS ASS. I picked up a sweet 80's Miyata road bike and I am loving my ride to and from work. I get to work every morning and my brain is buzzing from the ride.
I'll close with this note I sent some friends a few weeks ago:
More or less the usual morning. Had oatmeal with the family, got everyone dressed and packed up for school. Kissed the kids goodbye, got on my bike and headed downtown for work. Typical San Francisco summer morning -- chilly, with a stiff wind blowing. Bombed down Mission Street, past the smell of Salvadorean bakeries, through traffic. Down 26th street, past the day laborers standing outside in the cold hoping to get work that day. Harrison, 14th, Division, work.
Before I left this morning, I told my wife "These are the days. We'll never be more alive than we are right now, and we'll never have a better day than this."