Today is Holy Jon's last day at GoDaddy.

I posted his picture before (comparing him to Maynard Crebs), but I'll repeat a pic for this occasion.

                                                           

I met Holy Jon at 6:10 this morning, once again, for a morning run (we meet at 6 every morning, which means that I get there at 6:02 and Jon pulls in sometime later. One wonderful thing about my relationship with Jon is that he's the only guy later than I am) during which we talked about his upcoming move to Seattle, his upcoming job at Amazon, and all the changes that he'll be going through.

I am just flat gonna miss Jon. He's brighter than I am, but I have more experience (in just about anything :) so it's fun watching how our conversations evolve - I mean, during a conversation. And we share a lot of values - our outlooks are just different enough to provide conversational friction, but I don't believe that in four years we've ever had a cross word (yes, I know that that's to his credit, not mine - That's one reason why I'm gonna miss him :)

He's going to be in town next week, doing this and that before his Big Trip to the People's Corridor of I-5 (the idea of my ultra-conservative friend living in the Puget Sound area is quite delightful; however, he drives a Scion with an Apple sticker on one window, and a Linux Tux sticker on another, and he has that Generation-Y "gee, I just woke up" type of hairstyle, so - as long as he doesn't open his mouth - he might be able to pass as one of Them (except in Redmond ;)

I can say the following three things about Jon, to sum up what I think of him:

1) From a professional standpoint, he would deploy release candidates of his application to Loadtest, and they just worked. He might fiddle with this or that to get the best performance, but functionality or configuration was never a problem. That's the way to do release testing in Loadtest - contrariwise, he might try a proof of concept for some architectural or procedural change, and that would be all over the board - that, also, is the way to do POC testing in Loadtest.

2) From a character standpoint, I sometimes disagreed with him, but I never found his viewpoints shallow or silly. To be that young and have that much wisdom - heck, to have that kind of depth without having kids :) - bodes well for his future.

3) From the most important standpoint, there were many times that I would talk to Jon about God, and there were a few times when I would talk to God about Jon - but in neither case did I ever feel that I needed to introduce 'em.

I'm really gonna miss him.




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