It Ain't Over Till...

Well, it's official. We've been sitting on a bubble for the past few weeks and this week it finally got popped.

The funding for the startup that brought us here has been cut.

What we found out weeks ago was that the work would be canceled, but whether that happened with the then-current milestone or the next milestone was TBD. Now it has been determined to be the present milestone, which means the team's work stops at the end of this month.

Obviously, with the axe hovering, Larry had already started the hunt for the next interesting thing. Given the instability of the video game industry, he's also looking at engineering and testing roles in other areas.

And speaking of "other areas," we moved to Maui knowing there was a severe shortage of appropriate roles for either of us here.

In fact, for Larry this was it. And outside of a couple of contract jobs working at home, I've had no luck finding a job locally in content/copywriting that didn't involve a resort.  (No, thank you.)

So, moving on to another position for Larry will also mean MOVING ON.

I'm a tiny pot of big emotions about the whole thing. This will certainly be my shortest tenure in a place since college--I don't even know if I'll hit the year mark on Maui. (As I write this, 54 days and counting to get there.)

We've also agreed that most, if not all of our stuff will go away (depending on where we move next). Logically/financially, that makes sense. Emotionally, that's 20+ years of nesting to get rid of. (And get over. Given that I wrote about it in this blog and my Hamburg blog, no simple task.)

While I refine lists and we process options and get ready for the stress and the last-minute rush that always comes with these transitions, this is my roundabout heads-up that this blog will be coming to an end sooner rather than later.

Like everything else, the timing is uncertain. We'll see what the next few weeks hold in store...