{"id":78,"date":"2010-08-13T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/lisa\/post\/2010\/08\/13\/On-leaving-and-returning.aspx"},"modified":"2010-08-13T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:15:00","slug":"on-leaving-and-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2010\/08\/13\/on-leaving-and-returning\/","title":{"rendered":"On leaving and returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Colin's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C<\/a>, always my best influence, said something like this a couple of weeks ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;padding-right: 30px;background-color:whitesmoke;\">Developers code in two ways: at work and at home when they&#8217;re messing about with what interests them and makes them happy.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And, if you&#8217;re smart, you&#8217;ll try to align those two things.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Well.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to do my best to prove&nbsp;him right.&nbsp; Deep breath.<\/p>\n<p>Today I leave <a class=\"ecwLogoRef\" href=\"http:\/\/ecwise.com\"><span class=\"ecwLogoOrange\">EC<\/span><span class=\"ecwLogoGray\">|<\/span><span class=\"ecwLogoBlack\">Wise<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;and my post as MS Technologies team manager\/solutions architect.<\/p>\n<p>I will shortly begin work at the <a class=\"srcsLogoRef\" href=\"http:\/\/www.srcs.k12.ca.us\/\">Santa Rosa City Schools District<\/a>, as a DBA with some truly daunting data and reporting\/BI responsibilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With this move I hope to begin making several changes in my daily life and my family life-style, among them to work&nbsp;more constantly&nbsp;on tasks that are closely aligned with the interests you see displayed on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>I will also be giving back something to the public school district that prepared both my sons for Harvard and successful, enjoyable adult lives.<\/p>\n<h3>And speaking of milestones&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Today is also <a title=\"blog post on Jonah's birth!\" href=\"\/lisa\/2009\/08\/14\/And-then-there-were-three\/\">Jonah Day<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wish&nbsp;Jonah, and his wonderful parents, the first of many, many happy returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; C, always my best influence, said something like this a couple of weeks ago: Developers code in two ways: at work and at home when they&#8217;re messing about with what interests them and makes them happy.&nbsp; And, if you&#8217;re smart, you&#8217;ll try to align those two things.&nbsp; Well.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to do my best<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2010\/08\/13\/on-leaving-and-returning\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}