End of an Era

ERA? Oh wait... that was the LAST company...

So it's done, I'm gone, the badge is off, the door is closed. It's a very odd feeling. Mostly it's still surreal (especially considering I'm stopping by on Friday for yet another party!), but I imagine when I show up at the new place on Monday, it will certainly gain some reality. Hard to believe that after 12 years, I won't be going in to work in the morning.

12 years... it's simultaneously a short and long time. For me it's longest I've ever been in any one place. I've moved around most of my life (no, not a military brat), to include 3 different high schools, and around 2000 I had lived in 15 different addresses over the previous 10 years. Like I said... I got around. For the most part it's been a good ride. It had its ups, its downs, and all kinds of bumps, twists, turns, and surprise loop-de-loops all along. And considering there were only about 12 people that started at the current company before I did most of the 500 or so in the building now have only ever known the place with me as a part of it, seems odd to think that I'm not there.

Hopefully they will find people to take over my meager duties there, like: Form16 approving and filing, 2nd floor net accounts, COMSEC duties, Crypto loading, VTC admin, ASAC, phone switch programmer, backup badge admin, badge system programmer/configuration guy, ADT contact and line troubleshooter, voicemail technician, the "voice of Argon", sysadmin on various nets, CD transfer king, trusted download monkey, general security answer bunny, inspector, auditor, voice of reason, counselor, friend, comic relief, bad example, comic relief, bad cop, good cop, comic relief, virus tracker, investigator, editor, writer, script haX0r, comic relief, web manaintenance engineer and visitor db script monkey, comic relief, and lastly "I dunno, let's ask KennyG to do it! He'll do anything!". Yep... I always wanted to be Mikey. He got to eat the good cereal first, because everyone else was chicken! (Of course... he also ate the really crappy stuff first too, but they never aired those episodes! Like "What do bugs taste like?" and the classic "But the dog sure seemed to like it.")

In the end, I'm sad, excited, relieved, concerned, and... temporarily between worlds.