Friday, I went to bed and there was only a couple inches of snow on the ground. By the time this weekend blizzard passed, eight or ten inches of new snow covered everything. It’s the most snow I can remember getting in recent years.

Then today, I get to work and open my email to find our lead developer is leaving for another job in a little more than 2 weeks. I think everyone in the company was a little surprised. Granted, he wasn’t a true employee (only on a long term contract basis), but we still thought he enjoyed things enough to stick around. I kind of thought that we would be bringing him on as a full time employee as the company matured. Maybe he just got sick of waiting around.

Frankly, I’m scared. The only other dev (also on a contract) was brought to us by the guy who is leaving. It’s not that James and I don’t get along or work well together because I think we do. The problem is, I think I saw him coming to us as sort of a “favor” to Jeff. I know there was some dispute over wages prior to James’ contract signing, and I have a feeling Jeff sort of talked him into the job. Now that Jeff is abandoning ship, I don’t see James sticking around for long. His only reason for being loyal is now on it’s way out the door.

That leaves me; alone. Now, I’m sure Scott will be gearing up to hire a new developer soon and hopefully that person can be as good of a programmer and mentor as Jeff is. I just have this feeling that it’s not going to be an easy road the next couple of months. It’s kind of like that feeling you get when someone breaks up with you and you never knew there was a relationship problem (it’s happened to me twice).

And on a small side note, I’ve bought a domain name and hosting from GoDaddy. My hope is to get everything on Rails. I’ve yet to choose between Typo and Mephisto for a blogging engine, but if last night is any indicator, I’ll be going with Mephisto. I spent a good 3 hours trying to get Typo installed on my new host, and it didn’t go very smooth. In time, I also hope to rewrite the other portions of my site in Rails. And lastly, because I now own my own domain, the address will be changing. What I plan to do is point this domain at my new host or set up a redirect until my time runs out with my former host. Regardless, jrmehle.homelinux.net will become jrmehle.com.