New job after 23 years

The subject says it all.  After almost 23 years with one company and the loss of over 20 pounds and a 6 week FMLA vacation it was time for a change.  There was / is a very big downside to the change.  I’m not a couple of hundred miles away from my family 5 days a week.  But I wasn’t much good to them in the state I was toward the end of 2008.  This isn’t intended to be forever, but time will tell.  It doesn’t quite feel like a victory to quit, but it’s not a loss either.  I feel just a bit like Tom Petty and Fee Fallin’.

Skype and a webcam make it a little easier and cell phones and a buddy already in place at the new company.  Living in a moderate sized city is a new experience for me.  Visit yes, live in one I always thought no.  But it’s not big enough to have the traffic problems of a true metropolis.  We’ll see how it feels after a month, six months, a year…