>After 15 years of developing FP/VFP apps, I am moving on to something diferent. For the past 6 months, I have been transitioning myself back toward engineering work where my degree is in (Chemical Engineer to be exact). In two weeks, I will be taking an Engineering position in the Agency where I work. I have been wanting to do this for about a year now, and the recent hurricanes that hit 2 of the States in our Agency's Region (Texas and Louisiana) cemented that desire to move on.
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>I will be working in our Drinking Water section where we are responsible for oversight of State programs with regulatory authorities to assure safe drinking water from all our public water systems. During these past few weeks, many of the staff I will be working with have been sent to the affected areas in Louisiana and Texas, getting these systems back up and running, tested for contamination, etc.
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>I will still be a lurker around the UT and other NGs as we still have many applications in use around here that I have developed, but I will be in more of a support mode where they are concerned and will not be doing much more development. There is some sadness for me in leaving what I have done for so long, but I will only be about 100 feet down the hall from where I work now, and always just a few electrons away from here.
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>Take care, and try not to flame each other too much over silly things like politics and religion. No one has more control of your own life than you do. As for sports, now that is something to get all heated up about. < bg >

Mark,

I'm glad that you're moving on to a new challenge. I'm sad because the community is losing (sort of) one of its finest.

My best to you and yours,