No April Fools jokes or hints and allusions, this time it's for real: Brian's out like a Detroit streetlight. Looks like Gavin will take over, so we're not breaking up the band yet just because David Lee Roth is gone. That makes parallel #2 for Gavin and Sammy Hagar. Number one? He can't drive 55.

Thankfully it's on to something Brian seems really pumped about: bringing comic books to web 2.0. If that doesn't pan out, though, I know of a pretty good place to host a resume. I mean, I heard about one.

Anyone should be so lucky to work for someone like Brian. From the first trip to the Trump-hole, to the nail-biting evening waiting for this post to come true (and wondering if there were still jobs on the other end of it), to Bowling Incident 2007, it's been a blast. I know I did a lot of things in this job I wouldn't have if I'd worked for someone I didn't trust as much (Did that make any sense?). Thus ends two years of working with Brian, hopefully the future might hold a couple more of those years sometime. Good luck!

Brian marks the date today — two years since I saw this ad and said Hey, that looks like me. Well... me with mail server administration. Anyway, you can see that post was from late '04 and it took a while to actually hear from Brian, in fact I forgot about it entirely by the time he called (he was busy then too).

Been a crazy ride since then, since the halcyon days of ASP 3 and imprisonment in stark White Plains hotel rooms on a startup budget. Thanks a million Brian — I wouldn't trade the past two years for any job. But I could really go for one of those Buffalo chicken sandwiches from Candlelight.