This is the first post I’ve made in over two months. A crazy amount has happened in that time. I’ve become a new dad. This is picture of my new daughter, Libby Joss Mabbitt. She’s the one in the picture with lots of hair.

This is a good time to revisit a post I wrote last August: Fork in the Road. I talked about how one of my biggest clients was in need of more and more work from me as the months went on. It was reaching a cusp where they needed to bring on an internal person to handle what was starting to approach 40 hours worth of work each week.

I brought up the idea in the post that the position could be filled by me or someone else, but the freelance opportunity with this client was disappearing. I started talking about this phenomenon in very general terms, but I never explained how things were working out with me. Cody left a comment on the post and said he assumed I didn’t take the job.

For the most part, Cody is right. I have accepted a position with this new company. Then why am I qualifying this? Well, I’m taking a part-time position with this company that is 32 hours each week. I am still going to be working on independent projects like Patron, but during most regular business hours I’ll be working as a traditional employee.

How does this change affect this blog?

I am not going to be closing down Best Practices, although I probably won’t be posting weekly. Between a new job and my new role as dad, I doubt that I will be able to devote as much time to the blog as I have in the past. If the last two months are any indication, then that’s certainly true!

I don’t really know if I’ll be posting every two weeks, every month, or just on occasions when I feel compelled to talk about something. Probably the latter. So if you don’t use RSS feeds, this is a great time to start. There’s certainly no need to keep checking the site every Wednesday morning because there often won’t be a post. If you can just add this site to your feed aggregator, though, then you can just kick back and wait for new posts to come to you.

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