I know it's been a while, but I've been a little busy with an important activity: finding a new job. I found out I was getting laid off from my employer of 7 years before Christmas and my last day the the first week of the new year. This also just happens when Mrs. Kevster is 22 weeks pregnant with twins, putting a slightly higher amount of pressure on me to find something quickly. I did get a severance and paid medical for 2 months, but my employer's fracked-up processes can't start paying it out until the end of this month. I was one of ~1,800 other people getting pink slips at my employer in the last 3 months, I was just one of the last :/ . The new job search hasn't been so bad and I'll likely have a couple offers coming soon from companies that are very strong and will be there for a long time (much, much less than I can say for my former employer and if you are one of their customers you have my sympathies - I really tried hard to improve things there and only hit wall after wall).

Mrs Kevster has been handling it well so far and the job market for what I do is not bad, but my main concern is that I may have to go to be in the SF Bay Area for my future employment where the opportunities are more lucrative. I love where we're at and Mrs. Kevster and Annarchy love it too (If he's around, Paymaster lives in Folsom last I checked and would probably agree too). I and a LOT of my former colleagues had been talking around the campfire and the writing has been pretty clear in large bold letters, I was just hoping to stretch it out long enough until the little ones were born and I could leave on my own terms, they just accelerated the timetable unfortunately. I already had my resume ready and was looking around, but not actively submitting. Now I'm just dealing with the ever-slow hiring process...