what is says

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+[[!tag tags/hp]]
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+[[!tag tags/rockets]]
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+At the end of August 2012, I announced my 
+[Early Retirement](http://gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/Early_Retirement.html)
+from HP.  Two years later, my friend and former boss Martin Fink 
+successfully recruited me to return to what later became 
+[Hewlett Packard Enterprise](http://hpe.com), as an 
+[HPE Fellow](http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hpe/hpe-information/hp-fellows.html)
+working on open source strategy in his Office of the CTO.
+
+I'm proud of what I was was able to accomplish in the 25 months since then, 
+but recent efforts to "simplify" HPE actually made things complicated for 
+me.  Between the announcement in late June that 
+[Martin intended to retire himself](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/featured-article/2016/06/HPE-Boosts-Momentum-with-Organizational--Improvements.html),
+and the two major spin-merger announcements involving 
+[Enterprise Services](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/press-release/2016/05/1260962-hewlett-packard-enterprise-announces-plans-for-tax-free-spin-off-and-merger-of-enterprise-services-business-with-csc.html)
+and 
+[Software](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/featured-article/2016/09/CEO-Meg-Whitman-on-HPEs-Plans-to-Spin-Off-Merge-Non-Core-Software-Assets-With-Micro-Focus.html)... well...
+
+The bottom line is that today, 30 September 2016, is my last day at HPE.  
+
+My plan is to "return to retirement" and work on some fun projects with my wife 
+now that we are "empty nesters".  I do intend to remain involved in the Free 
+Software and open hardware worlds, but whether that might eventually involve 
+further employment is something I'm going to try and avoid thinking about 
+for a while... 
+
+There is a rocket launch scheduled nearby this weekend, after all!
+