Long time no post. Why? I’ve been busy as heck!

Work at Apple continues to occupy most my time as we continue working on the best version yet of Mac OS X, “Snow Leopard.” My program management job has exposed me to a variety of new responsibilities, priorities, and skill sets over the year that I’ve been doing it. Back when I was an engineer, my work was very measurable: if I had no bugs in my queue and I was happy with whatever tools work I was doing, I could go home and not think about work. In addition, the amount of collaboration and communication involved was minimal. Those simple days are gone, because the product can always be more on time, more featureful, higher quality, and the production of it involves hundreds of people, ranging from engineering to legal to marketing and so on. It was a challenging adjustment, but a very rewarding one that has made me a better person.

Melissa and I have now been married for 9 months, and they happen to have been the best months ever in the history of months. Once again, there are definitely a seismic shift in goals and priorities that comes with marriage, but at the end of the day they prove to be extremely rewarding changes. We’re currently living in San Mateo, but now that we have had a bit of time to explore the Bay Area, we’ll probably move down south, perhaps to Santa Cruz to be near the ocean and mountains.

California is truly a beautiful state with great weather and amazing scenery. If I drive west, I come up against bluffs where the ocean crashes against what looks like the end of the world. If I drive east, I see mountains and lakes, and wonders of the world like Yosemite.

Taken together, these things have helped me realize that there are better things to do than futz around on the internet all day, so my post frequency will probably remain a bit lower, though hopefully I’ll put up more pictures (most of these are on our family website, so go look over there or email me to find out the address).

Until next time!