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矽谷南北踅了一圈之後，我決定加入原先叫做Kosmix，後來被Walmart在2011年併購而改組的創新/育成lab。我一直相信史記裡說的，「國士遇我，我故國士報之」；@Walmartlabs前些日子在Seattle徵才，非常誠懇地在面試前晚與應徵者座談良久，工程師也非常友善與熱忱。從面試時的態度，面試之後去矽谷詳談的內容，乃至於協商待遇的種種細節，都讓我感到對方對這個lab的重視與企圖；我還不是個舉重若輕的科技大顎，但我著實因為他們的肯定而惶恐，總不能辜負了人家的一番器重才好。
沒想到嚷嚷著下間公司要去startup的我，最終居然加入了全世界最大的公司。
我長於分離，喜歡蕭邦的 Etude Op.10, No.3，而這次終將與長住了四年餘的無眠之城一別，回去那熟悉又陌生的谷地。將臨的重返不是倏乎的翩然，五年後的我再不是孤雁的驚鴻，我有家，有深愛的女人切切地廝守。之前嘟囔地嘈嚷，「天地之大，何處不可為家」，這次的搬遷總是定定地閑適；天地之大，此心安處是吾鄉。
塵埃終於落定，讓我再次掇擷 Raymond Chandler的《The Long Goodbye》，這次的心態也許昭然而有別，我知道妳是深深地理解的。
Twenty four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes, people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick; bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn’t have one. I didn’t care. I finished the drink and went to bed.
Let’s finish the drink，敬那些生命中充滿小雨與盎然綠意的一千五百個日子。