The Brad Hole

Today marks the last 24 hours I'll spend as a Westlake employee. It's been a great 5 year run, and I wouldn't trade it in for anything. That's partly why it's also a kind of depressing day - this marks the end of a pretty big and fun part of my career. Working with Glenda, Suellen, Ken, Phil, Mark, Duane, Cary, Jesse and of course John has been a blast.

When I awake later this morning, I'll start packing up that old loaner Blue and White G3 that I've had since I started work on Alpha Centauri back in 1999. It's long since been retired from day-to-day use, but I did keep it around as a way to test games on MacOS 8.6. Now that duty will fall to my iBook.

Sometime after that, I'll do one last check-in for EverQuest. Once I commit that, then my time at Westlake will be at an end, and maintenance for all the non-Aspyr projects I did (EverQuest, Civ3, Centipede and Monopoly Casino) will fall into someone else's hands.

So anyway, thanks for all the memories guys, and best of luck to you and Westlake in the future. If I ever have a job and coworkers that were as much fun as at Westlake, I'll be one of the luckiest guys alive. (Yeah, that sounded a little Lou Gehrig-like. Sue me.)