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T<\/span>oday has been a busy, exciting, and exhausting day. This morning, after a series of interviews this week, I accepted an offer from GitHub, where I have been contracting much of the year. I also contracted with them for a year or so before the Plague. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are still some formalities – a contract to sign on Monday, a background check, etc. – but I was dancing in my office today, super excited. I like the people I’m working with, I love the company culture, and the job I’m doing is both challenging and interesting. And although the words “senior manager” appear in my title, I won’t actually have any direct reports. The best of all worlds. Huzzah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then this afternoon Francine and I returned to the Holy Rosary campus to retrieve some liturgical items and vestments being borrowed by Saint Ann, principally for use by the altar servers. It was emotionally difficult to be in the various buildings. At least several of the buildings are being put to good use: the rectory for the caretaker, the school as a homeless shelter, and the old convent (CMC) building by Saint Joseph parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The items we retrieved (all carefully inventoried!) include torches, communion patens, chalice veils and burses, and altar server vestments. It took us a couple of hours to track everything down, and in the end we didn’t even manage to find everything on the list. Don, the caretaker who was helping us out, did not in fact have keys to all of the locked storage rooms. I’m sure we’ll eventually be back for the rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a while, the living room here at Pistachio House was covered in piles of cassocks and surplices as I matched them up into sets again. We’ll bring them to Saint Ann tomorrow, and soon our servers will be using them. Huzzah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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