Time For A Break

Here's a excerpt from some email I sent to the team earlier this week:

One of the wonderful things about Microsoft is that if you hang around for a while, it sneaks a surprise on you. A while ago I was given the opportunity to take a sabbatical, but up until this point schedules haven't aligned to enable me to take it, now they have. So starting next Monday I'll be playing way too much golf, getting around to doing all those chores around the house that I've been paying people too much money to do for me and doing some recreational coding.

I'll also be getting the nursery ready in anticipation of the arrival of our daughter.

I'll be oof from July 11th, though September 23rd. The aim is to rest up, but Jasmine should be arriving at the end of August, probably with the aim of annoying her brother mercilessly, so when I return I'll probably need another break ;-)

I'll not traveling, so should you need to contact me, feel free to call or just email me. I'll be checking email (almost) daily. That said, if you have any burning issues, you'll need to find me before the end of the week.

Cheers,
Steve

Ahh, vacation. And eleven weeks of it too. This is a great company.

That said, I'll actually probably spend most of it in front of my machine at home working on cool new stuff for FlightSim, but without the daily distractions of the work.

As my wonderful wife says: "You're too much of a forehead". I like that.

In other news, I got to order my new laptop today. I settled on the Toshiba Tecra M4 because it's a tablet and the GPU supports shader model 3.0.

That means I get to code in the Triple J Cafe. Oh, and it should please Scoble...