My new job, being in a niche unfilled by poor writers, begins on the 25th. For the last week in February and the first few days of March, I'll be braving the cold of Chicago in search of that sweet sweet paycheck.

After that, being a remote writer, I am free to move about the country. I'll head back to San Francisco after going home to the love, and then maybe to DC to see some other folks. When it's warmer, I'd love to go to New York. Maybe I can finally make it to other, smaller places like Minneapolis, like Iowa City, like Denver.

This is all great, but even better, I once again have access to the thrumming pulse of the Internet, the data centers. Not on those raised floors that I've walked and worked on before, but somewhere new, somewhere exciting beyond the drivel of the old job and the possibility of the Company Raise.

I can't wait.

Here's to the new year and new beginnings.