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blog/new-adventures-2020-10-23.markdown

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ title: "Life Update: New Adventures"
 date: 2020-10-23
 tags:
  - personal
- - consulting
- - docker
 ---
 
 # Life Update: New Adventures
@@ -22,15 +20,62 @@ and all feedback would be very appreciated. I hope to have it published on my
 [Itch page](https://withinstudios.itch.io/) by the end of this year. My target
 is on or about $5 for the game manual and supplemental material.
 
-I am going to have a lot of time on my hands, so if you want to, I'm more than
+Thanks for reading; no, seriously, thank you. Without people like you that
-willing to walk through your Docker build pipelines and optimize them so your
+read and share articles on this blog I would never have gotten to the level of
-builds are faster and futureproofed against the [upcoming Docker Hub rate limit
+success that I have now. Additionally, I would like to emphasize that I am fine
-changes](https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-docker-to-serve-millions-more-developers-network-egress/).
+as far as new jobs go. I have primary and fallback plans in place, but if they
-Please [contact me](/contact) for more information and pricing. I am very
+all somehow fall through I will be sure to put up a note here. Please be sure to
-flexible and just want to make things better. 
+check out [/signalboost](/signalboost) for people to consider when making hiring
+decisions.
 
-Thanks for reading, sorry to send out an ad like this. I would like to emphasize
+## May Our Paths Cross Again: My Farewell Letter to Lightspeed
-that I am fine as far as new jobs go. I have primary and fallback plans in
+
-place, but if they all somehow fall through I will be sure to put up a note
+Hey all,
-here. Please be sure to check out [/signalboost](/signalboost) for people to
+
-consider when making hiring decisions.
+Today is my last day at Lightspeed. Working at Lightspeed has been catalytic to
+my career. I have been exposed to so many people from so many backgrounds and
+you all have irreparably changed me for the better and given me the space to
+thrive. There is passion here, and it is being tapped in order to create
+fantastic solutions for our customers to enable them to succeed. I originally
+came to Montréal to live with my fiancé and if Covid had struck a week later he
+would be my husband.
+
+However, I feel that I have done as much as I can at Lightspeed and our paths
+thusly need to divide. I have gotten a fantastic opportunity and I will be
+working on technology that will become a foundational part of personal and
+professional IP networking over WireGuard for many companies and people. I'm
+sorry if this comes as a shock to anyone, I don't mean to cause anyone grief
+with this move.
+
+I have been attaching a little poem in Lojban to the signature of my emails,
+here is it and its translation:
+
+```
+la budza pu cusku lu
+  <<.i ko do snura .i ko do kanro
+    .i ko do panpi .i ko do gleki>> li'u
+```
+
+> May you be safe. May you be healthy. 
+> May you be at peace. May you be happy.
+- Buddha
+
+I will be reachable on the internet. See https://christine.website/contact to
+see contact information that will help you reach out to me. If you can, please
+direct replies to me@christine.website, that way I can read them after this
+account gets disabled.
+
+I hope I was able to brighten your path.
+
+From my world to yours,
+
+--
+
+Christine Dodrill
+https://christine.website
+
+```
+la budza pu cusku lu
+  <<.i ko do snura .i ko do kanro
+    .i ko do panpi .i ko do gleki>> li'u
+```