Yesterday was my last day with Lighthouse Communications following the sale of Consumer Internet to Iowa Telecom.  No Consumer Internet = no need for a Director of Consumer Internet.

This is a good thing, though, as I've been yearning to be my own boss again for some time.

So now I am officially an independant, working for JCross Enterprises, Inc.  For those of you who are CrossPaths or FBX members, never fear as I believe that Iowa Telecom will be a great home for you, plus I am doing ISP / Special Project consulting for them, so I'll be in a good position to make sure you're well taken care of.

We moved the servers from Lighthouse's data center in Des Moines to Iowa Telecom's in Grinnell overnight Thursday.  The entire process went from 10p to 10a - a long night!  So long in fact that I opted not to go to bed until Friday night so my sleep schedule wouldn't be too out of whack.  I did, however, almost fall asleep at the intersection of SW 9th and Army Post yesterday on the way back to work from home.  The fear of potential death was pretty effective at jolting me back awake after a split second, where I found some kids in the car next to me laughing.

And with a 12 hour overnight maintenance window, we only had a handful of customer calls.  We've been pretty good over the past couple years making enough fail overs and redundancy that to most people, other than some issues with our web sites, they didn't even know we were down, as connecting and email were completely unaffected.