Not wanting to risk life becoming even remotely boring, we’ve decided to change jobs, move countries (temporarily) and move apartments over the next 2 months. Change comes all at once!
The trigger for all this change was one small decision that I made to move from the team that I currently work in, to a new team (still at Google) where I’ll be helping to maintain the front-end web serving infrastructure that powers Google. Part of that transition means that I need to go to Mountain View for 6 weeks to get to know new team-mates and come up to speed on various bits and pieces.
The need for me to be away from Dublin for 6 weeks was the catalyst to trigger the other two changes which we’d been vaguely discussing for a while but which hadn’t quite reaching decision point yet.
First up Kat decided that it was the right time for her to move on from iQuate, so she’ll be finishing up there on the 9th of April and then coming to Mountain View as well.
Secondly, we’d been thinking for a while about moving out of the city center to somewhere with a bit less noise, cleaner air and maybe a sea view if we’re lucky! Rather than paying rent for our apartment to sit empty for 6 weeks while we’re in Mountain View we’ve given our notice for our current place and we’ll be looking for somewhere new to live, most likely to the south of the city after we get back to Dublin at the start of June. We’ll be putting all our stuff in storage here while we’re away.
So that’s our news for March!