Brierly Hill 90210

This new year heralded not just a new millennium but many new things on the personal front as well. We had been married 6 months and I broke out on my own to become a self-employed software developer and consultant. My first gig was in the US mid-west where Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota all meet. Not only is that part of the world incredibly cold in January, I was working in a meat processing plant and slaughter house so it smelled awful too. The people I worked with were terrible and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. Luckily, it only lasted a few months before I was able to escape back to work with old friends in Columbus, Ohio (so could take in more Columbus Crew games in Major League Soccer) and Silicon Valley in California. Semi-conductor technology does not smell as bad as cows and death.