I recently said goodbye to my wonderful co-workers at Portland Public Schools and am now serving as a Report and System Developer for Kaiser Permanente. I’m excited to be part of Kaiser and impressed by its history and organization. Given the state of US health care, it will be an interesting place to work.

I’ll be doing less Excel and more SQL. And with luck my 18-mile round trip commute will give me the calves of a steroid-free Lance Armstrong. Or at least of my 7th-grade Spanish teacher, who had really big calves.

I’ve got a backlog of ideas for posts here, and just need the time and energy for them. A post often takes me upwards of 20 hours, sometimes a lot longer as I figure stuff out.

Whatever your endeavors in 2014, I wish you good luck.