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Well, my post grad-school time of working on ‘projects’ (that’s what I told people when they asked me what I was going to do now, “I’m working on projects” I would reply.) has come to an end. I had two months to work on my own ‘projects’. I start a new job tomorrow. It’ll be nice to have money again (almost forgot what that was like), but I’m going to miss having all this time to work on interesting open source projects like Inline::HDL and even RHDL. I hope I can still find some time to work on them, but realistically, I know they won’t progress at a very fast pace.

I haven’t managed to get another version of RHDL released yet as I had hoped to a few weeks back. Taxes, yard work (it’s Spring!), a trip to the coast and installing Gentoo on my newly bought PC (I still haven’t managed to get it to boot, but I think it’s getting closer…) have conspired against that goal.

The job I’m starting tomorrow is a contract job. Four months with the possibility of going permanent. While I’m looking forward to it, I’m also a bit aprehensive. Starting a new job is like that. You never really know what you’re getting into. You hope it’ll be a good situation and it often is, but you never know… and of course there’s all those things I didn’t get done that I wanted to get done like learning Io and reading through the SICP book and learning Scheme. Somehow it must be possible to do those things while working full-time too, but I know it’ll be a lot harder to get to them.