Lake Tahoe (offsite/scenes from a good trip part 3)

since a very large edit of these photos has already been on the "unofficial engineyard tumblr":http://engineyard.tumblr.com, I'm going to do a cliff notes version in an effort to get closer to the present. I'd really like to be posting yesterday's pictures, or at least last weeks, instead of two months ago (2.5 now; I'm behind on being behind). In short: it was good. I was leaving one team, support, who collectively are the most expert sysadmins and devops engineers I've ever known. Also not a few really excellent rubyists. Why would I leave that? A new adventure, of course. I mean, there are reason you tell people (promotion, pay, whatever), and then there's the real reason, and the real reason is I can't sit still for too long. New people, new environment, new problems.

Night 1: SF

Met up with some dudes at the airport, went to a fancy french restaurant, and had what I've come to realize is a fairly normal BART experience, conplete with a balloon animal lady. Yeah.

scenes from a good trip

The next morning, I got on a plane to SF, for a company offsite in Tahoe. I got to the hotel and crashed for a bit (as you do), and then went and found my compatriots. Wandered, took photos.

going away party

This was the last hurrah before we left town. After this, I was in tahoe for a week, and then we came home and packed everthing. It was great to see everyone one last time; many people came out and I didn't get photos of them all. I was busy, I suppose. We had the main event at Picasso's, which there for a while was basically my kitchen. A perfect spot for 40 of our closest friends to say goodbye. And then we moved on to the Other Room, which didn't last long, and then ended up at the Mule. A good night to round things out, and then get up in the morning and get on a plane.