Since everyone else is doing it, I am going to chime in on this one.

Short summary: This year fucking sucked!

Long version:

Most of the people on various private filters of mine have gotten most of this story already but I am finally just going to write it all out.

In the last year, my job has gone from "OMG best place to work evar" to "absolute soul sucking hell." I know the economy sucks and everything else but I could not take it anymore and so I have turned in my resignation. My last day will be January 16th. At that point I will be shoving the last of my stuff in my Jeep and driving to Sunnyvale where I will be at least temporarily living with the Squeaky Hallow group. This group being the rented out with inaki, tixen, ... and so on. keskitsune is already up there and I can't wait to be with my love again.

I haven't done anything at all exciting this year as the above mentioned soul sucking hell of a job has made me very depressed and unmotivated for the past few months. The biggest thing that I'd like to bring up is Furspots which I have been working on with indicoyote. This has turned into an absolutely awesome project and we hope to go into full release sometime around FC as well. I hope everyone who hasn't decided to sign up yet will ask me for an invite code and sign up. We plan to make this the most awesome furry social networking site out there. We haven't pushed many updates lately but we have a huge update that is soon going to be merged in and pushed out that will add a number of new features.

I look forward to being up in the bay area for next year. My goal for the next year is to figure out where do I really want to go with my life. I have quickly realized that working for other people sucks and I know I have the skills now to head out on my own. I really want to either start my own bootstrapped company or possibly just work in consulting for a while till the awesome ideas hit me.

A number of people I know have been having an absolutely horrible 2008 and I really hope that everyone's next year is better than what it was. Here is to that too. Happy New Year everyone. It really can't get worse I hope.