In recent weeks which have come to pass, unbeknownst and unexpected, currents of turmoil and change appear aligned to quarterly quells of extirpated expectations.

Heart-felt apologies are due for the sustained impact to availability: last-minute flights that changed planned presence at the OpenZFS conference, schedule overlaps on my favorite CFT meetings, and reduced activity on chat/social network presences. Ideally, a successful outcome of the past two week’s “all or nothing” focus, and its associated changes will facilitate settling into a pattern which resolves Q2-Q3’s high-priority disaster-prevention supply-chain table-flipping reaction-based event processing.

So then, the present data-driven life-revision necessitates a relocation of geographic presence for the second time this year. While I was hopeful that the PNW would be more than a near-term solution, the two corner-stones of that expectation have not turned out as originally planned. So, lest one avails to stagnate and risk an early health-expiration, there will soon unfold a new stage of career focus along with a re-introduction to one of the best medical groups in the country (Mayo Clinic). Those two requirements happen to be in Chicago and its adjacent geo-zones of insurance coverage.

Feeling very fortunate at present, and am often reminded that substantial positive change is rarely a singular achievement; so a big thank you to everyone who’s been supportive and caring along the way. Please know that you’re appreciated and I hope to continue the aforementioned endeavors which had made this period in the PNW feel so very welcomed and at peace.