& that's the way life goes

This post is about 2.5 months overdue. At the time it happened I was in denial and my feelings about the situation were at opposite ends of the spectrum. On one hand (the selfish one) I was SO sad and on the other I was SO excited.

My co-worker Matt left to take a job at Google. I’ll let that sink in.

Matt was an awesome guy to work with. He always had time to help me with issues that made me want to bash my head against my desk. He encouraged me to get self-hosting for my blog and helped me with design ideas and tweaks. This doesn’t even scratch the surface of all the help Matt gave me. He was also pretty hilarious dancing in the office and commenting with snarky remarks when you were least expecting it.

Somewhere over the 3 years we worked together a gang was formed. Venom, Viper, Vapor & Matt (aka V3M). Matt always complained he never got a good nickname and this was no exception. We used to go to lunch and bitch about work and all the douchebags DBs that the company contained. Though Matt never called anyone a “database” out loud.

At our farewell celebration before Matt left for the Googleplex  he finally earned a nickname.  From now on our historical gang was Venom, Viper, Vapor and Vag.  Yeah, Vag.  Not even sure how we got there now.   I totally expect to have some type of cool invitations for some of the Google stuff that Matt will be producing.  If not the V3’s are going out to Cali to kick some Vag ass.

Our office isn’t the same.  The balance is off now.  We are waiting for the new guy to start.  Keith seems to think he’ll be alright.  I’m hoping he’s not one of the DB’s we used to bitch about at lunch.