Anthony D. Green AnthonyDGreen

What’s Next for Anthony

Recap

It’s been a year since my last update. Relocating my life from Seattle back to Chicago was no small feat. All in all, I’d say it took just under 10 months.

3 months to ready (read: repair) the condo I was living in for a new family to live in and pack all my stuff up
3.5 months to find the spot I wanted to call home in Chicago and to get it ready (read: repaired and cleaned) for me to live in; during which I was couch surfing and living out of hotels.

This is my family tree:

I drew this diagram from memory (it's not complete) on the whiteboard in my office last year to illustrate a point to a colleague: family is everything to me. Those shapes aren't just entries in a historical record, they're people who I've known and who have surrounded me my entire life. Not being near to them is as unnatural to me as not including my middle initial/name in my signature*. The shapes inside the circle are all in Chicago. And it's for that reason that I've always known my time at Microsoft and in Seattle could never be forever.

Since arriving in Seattle 8-years ago I've flown across the country (and to Canada once) for weddings, birthdays, graduations, almost every major US holiday (can you imagine having to call all those people if you miss Christmas?), a couple of drivers tests, and for one particular relation for

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	Imports Newtonsoft.Json.Linq

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	Public Class MilkDrinkService

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	End Class