Programming Note

Friday before last, I sent this message via e-mail to everyone at my firm:

To all,

For those who don’t yet know, this afternoon I submitted my two week notice. 

Jenny, the kids, and I will be moving to Shreveport, Louisiana next month, where I plan to teach high school.

Of course, my decision to leave the firm was very difficult. This is the only law job I have every held and I thoroughly enjoy working with all of you. But most of my family lives in the Shreveport area, and I really want my kids to grow up with all of their little cousins. 

Feel free to ask me any questions, as I’m sure there are many.

Thanks,

Moving to S’port means the end of the Alablawg, too. I hate it, I really do. I don’t have state legislators blogging here, nor do I get interviewed by national publications. The Alablawg is rightly subjected to all the typical complaints about blogs: Opiniontated, crude, self-infatuated. But it’s fun.

When I started this thing, I initially wanted it to be an objective review of Alabama law. That lasted about two hours: My opinions are too strong and my interests too varied. Instead my standard became blogging about whatever I found interesting. That doesn’t mean I disregarded readers. Far from it. I always blogged about whatever I wanted to blog about, but the best part of it was knowing some folks actually enjoyed what I wrote. I really am shocked every time someone leaves a comment, or e-mails me, or links to me, or - as happened just last week - whenever I run into a reader and they tell me how much they enjoy the Alablawg.

I’ve enjoyed the Alablawg so much that I even considered trying to keep it up from Louisiana. That wouldn’t be right, though.

Anyway, about the future. We’re moving the weekend of June 15th, and I had initially planned to wait until a few days before then to announce the end of the blog. But reading the news today, I just could not bring myself to post about any of it. I feel like a lame duck. Time will be limited, too. The next couple of days at work will be dedicated to wrapping up files and that sort of thing. Then I’ll be out of town until the middle of next week. After that, it’s packing, packing, packing. Most importantly, though, I didn’t want the end of the Alablawg to be one single abrupt goodbye post.  

So, over the next two weeks, rather spend the limited amount of free time between now and then posting about the news, I’ll follow a goodbye theme. In other words, after this post, I plan on putting up a few others discussing things like: 1) Stuff I’ll miss about Alabama; 2) Stuff in Alabama I never got around to doing, and; 3) Why we’re moving (this will be the final post). There will probably be some more pictures as well.

And if there’s anything else you want me to discuss, just let me know.

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