The Only Thing Constant is Change

The season is about to change for all of us, but this past Summer has been quite an eventful one for me.  I won't bore you all with the details, but there are a few things I think will be of interest to readers here.
Scott Stauffer, whom I lured to come work with me full-time at Moulding and Millwork couldn't bear my authoritarian rule, and is back on the freelance circuit helping more people than just me.  (I jest about the authoritarian comment - I'm sure I'm not that bad to work with, although I am sure our organization was too slow for Scott's faster pace.)  Good wishes to Scott - I'll still see him very often, as I'll be one of his clients now.  Hey!  No Dilbert-esque "rehired at a higher rate as a contractor" comments, please ;)
Due in no small part to Scott's efforts, we now have a true Data Warehouse team and program here at M&M.  That's even better than a "project" that implies some kind of time limit, which would have been better than the skunkworks guerilla work that I'd been pursuing before Scott arrived.  I must say that the conventional wisdom about getting Data Warehousing going in an organization is completely correct in my case as well - if you don't have an executive sponsor that's fully committed, you're going to have a tough road to hoe.
All of the above activities, plus a LOT more internal projects here at work have cut down significantly on my output here at the blog, as well as at the MSDN forums.  I'm lucky I was able to keep up some community work by presenting at DevTeach and New York's SQL Saturday.  However, I do believe I've gotten on top of managing this change, so things should get closer to the "old normal."  Here's hoping the reduced focus I felt I've placed on the community doesn't hurt my chances of getting renewed as a SQL MVP this October too badly.  I really do appreciate the opportunity to communicate directly to the product team, and once I get deep into SSIS 2012 and related products, I'm sure I'll be wasting a bunch of their time!
I still really enjoy writing here, on the forums, and speaking to user groups even though I've been relatively quiet of late.  I suppose that if priorities didn't ebb and flow, life would be quite stale.  Now that I think I've figured out how to organize myself somewhat, I'll be back at it right here - and hopefully find time to complete version 2 of my BC Ferries app for Windows Phone (and Windows 8) as well.