[Pre-note: If you’ve landed on this article, I’d love to know how you came across it. Somehow, there have been 4k views with 3.1k reads since Feb 18, and today’s Feb 20. As of Feb 21, there were 5.6k views with 4.1k reads. My blog is not that popular, there’s usually a handful of views each day.]
Feb 18, 2026. The day I’m saying bye to my 7.5-year career on Firebase at Google, one I started in NYC on Aug 13, 2018.
This isn’t a blog post about my career, it’s about how it ended and why I’m leaving. I feel like whenever I read goodbye emails, I always wonder what really happened. Here’s my story.
It’s quite long, so the tldr is: I was re-org’d onto a team that misaligned with my values with a manager who I felt psychologically unsafe with and couldn’t trust. I spent a lot of emotional and mental energy afterward trying to find my way back to a Firebase team (while looking at other internal options too), and in the process, I was given a performance warning along with the option to take severance. I felt relief when this happened, and after getting a final confirmation that I could not move back to a Firebase team, I made the decision to take severance. I felt happy and free, relieved from all the stress of this re-org and fight for what I want in the last two months.
To my colleagues: I’m deeply grateful, honored, and feel so, so, so lucky that I got to work with you. No matter who you are, you taught me something, and I can’t even begin to tell you what I learned from this job or how I grew to be a better engineer but also a better person. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the impact you made on me.
Now for the long story if you want to read it.
Before I started the job back in 2018, I interviewed with different teams. I picked Firebase to join as a SWE. 3 years later, I switched to DRE and again, picked Firebase to join. Firebase was always a choice, my choice.
I would say the end started Mon, Dec 15, 2025. My ex-manager messaged me somewhat randomly asking if I had time to chat. I thought I was getting laid off or moved teams; it was the latter. I was getting put onto a team that was doing work that was entirely different, one that was not working on Firebase and was working on Google Cloud. This was a severe shock and an instant dislike of what was happening. I strongly felt that I didn’t want to be on this team.
My new manager was out of office when this happened and returning on Thurs. My new skip manager (manager’s manager) was on a work trip but made time to chat on Wed. We did, and I was told in more detail what the team does. The north star is: convince the world to use Google’s AI products. Beyond that, I was told to wrap up my Firebase work and to not start anything new. I was also asked to attend a team summit the first week of January, and I replied with I’ll think about it.
If you know me, then you might know about my strong dislike of AI to the point where it’s pretty much a moral stance. Maybe I got lucky in the last two years that I was able to find corners of Firebase where I didn’t have to do AI work. On this new team, forcing me to not only work on AI products but to tell the world to use it? I can’t do that. I can’t have a job that goes against my own moral principles. It’s funny because I thought about being a lawyer when in college, and I ultimately disregarded it because I didn’t think I could argue a case that’s against my own morals, thus lessening the number of cases I could take (I’m also terrible at memorizing which I hear lawyers have to do). I never thought morals would be one of the reasons I walk away from a job in the tech world.
The next day didn’t get better as I had a 1.5-hour chat with my new manager. That was what I would call a disastrous call. I’ve never felt such a strong dislike towards a person from work, and in talking to friends about that later, I realized I felt psychologically unsafe with this manager. Also, due to what she said in that meeting, I didn’t trust her words either.
Unbeknownst to me at that time, I would feel a jolt of anxiety every time I received an email or chat message from my manager, followed by dread to read and answer it. That started after the first time I interacted with my manager, and this was a person who had a say in my career, a person who was supposed to help my career?
Overnight, my job had turned into a job I loved into a nightmare, a nightmare that was forced upon me. I was suddenly told to stop working on a product that I chose to work on for the past 7.5 years. I was suddenly given a new team that not only was not working on any work I wanted to work on, it was against my morals. I was suddenly given a new manager that I didn’t feel psychologically safe with nor trust.
From that point on, I was on a mission to get back onto a Firebase team. I looked at other internal teams too but they were sparse, and I even reached out to a Firebase SWE manager who unfortunately said I’d have to return to the office for that role. I tried not to think about it too much over end-of-year holidays, and I ended up going to the team summit at the beginning of the year.
Right before it started, I met with my ex-skip manager, and I wanted to know if there’s any chance to move. I was also curious why I was moved as opposed to others on the team and was told I had the right skills they were looking for: strong coder who could learn quickly, experience with the community my new team was working with, and a content creator. Everyone on my Firebase DevRel team was obviously a content creator, but the first two uniquely fit me, as I had a SWE background on Firebase and (tried to) work with the community in 2025.
When I was told that, I felt regret at my career — a feeling I should never have to feel because I’m actually very happy with the career I’ve had. In that was also the conviction that a company doesn’t get to use the skills I have in order to do work I don’t want to do, on a team that gets forced upon me.
I then went to the 1.5-days team summit in the Bay Area on Jan 5 and 6. It was mostly fine, met my team, still strongly disliked my manager. At least I mostly got along with my skip.
During the team summit, I felt even more strongly like I didn’t want to be on the team. I could feel a cultural shift, a hustle culture, one that I wanted no part of. I could feel a top-down obeyance culture as well which I’ve never felt on any team in my entire career. I had more motivation to keep pushing and looking for what was best for me. I talked again to my skip, and both my skip and ex-skip couldn’t move me. They and my ex-manager all encouraged me to try the new team and try to improve the relationship with my manager.
I had no interest in improving relationships with a person who I don’t trust and don’t feel psychologically safe with. It takes immense emotional and mental toil to work on relationships — any relationship. I’m unwilling to invest that energy into work as a job doesn’t get to have that part of me, only people I care about do. Everything about this team was already causing me stress that flowed into the rest of my life, even though I consider myself quite able to compartmentalize. I wasn’t willing to have additional emotional and mental stress from trying to fix a relationship with a person I didn’t feel comfortable with.
At a loss, I reached out to two past managers, one who left Firebase DevRel, and one who was still in the vicinity of it. I reached out to the teammate who helped me ramp up to Firebase DevRel, and I reached out to a mentor I have at the company, unrelated to Firebase. I wanted to get as much advice I could, and people gave me different perspectives that I was grateful for. At that point, I was extremely grateful that I had people I could trust and reach out to at work.
I remember telling one of them that I was going to quit if I don’t get to be on the team I want to be on. It was baffling to me that nobody in management I talked to thought that, or maybe they didn’t care or couldn’t do anything about it — I’m not sure. The person I told said that if that’s the case, I can be empowered to handle this however I want because I’m already prepared to leave. I already felt empowered before this conversation because I had realized my choice to leave wouldn’t heavily impact my life. I was already preparing to leave in my mind, if I’m honest.
During the week of the summit, I also talked to a bunch of friends in the Bay Area where I’m from, and to be honest, all of this job stuff I had to deal with ruined that time. I was constantly worrying about and fighting for what I wanted, and when friends asked how I was, I was truthful so I was basically mentally and emotionally drained at work worrying about my team situation, and I was mentally and emotionally drained talking about it with my friends. It was not good.
I ended up pushing my PTO out a week so I could try to deal with this and get it into a better place. I finally got around to speaking with my skip’s manager (3 levels up), and I finally, finally felt like someone was listening to what I want. I was asked what I wanted to work on and was told to talk to the manager of whom I was interested in reporting to, along with their manager — in order to make sure the team is working on work I want to work on and we won’t revisit this conversation half a year from now.
That made me feel better. I talked to the manager before I left for PTO, and I talked to the manager’s manager the day I got back, Feb 10. I felt sure I wanted to do it, but the skip’s manager was out of office until Feb 23. I messaged my manager for what I was supposed to do, and I agreed to do the AI training course, which in my mind would also be helpful if I went on the team I wanted to be on.
This is also the day when my skip asks me about working location. I thought my world was going to crash and burn down, but at the time, I thought they just wanted more information. I think differently now.
On the evening of Feb 11, my manager sends a work plan to me telling me what I need to do. The jolt of anxiety receiving this and the dread to respond is still there, and it’s worse now because every time I had to interact with my skip, that feeling started to arise as well. I felt like I couldn’t talk to anyone in my management chain.
I respond with I’ll do the training course and create content around it, and I’m also going to push out this Firebase blog post and associated socials. I get a ping about this on Feb 12 saying we need to align on my work. A meeting gets set up for later that day, and I didn’t want to go but went anyway.
Feb 12. The meeting with my manager wasn’t what I expected, and actually, it was a relief. I expected to go in to argue about what I wanted to do, and instead of having to talk to my manager, I talked to HR instead after my manager read some script for two minutes. There’s a lot to say when I feel relief and lighter talking to HR than to my manager.
HR was there to tell me: 1) I need to go back to an acceptable work location (NYC or Sunnyvale) and 2) I’m being given a performance warning with the option of severance. I surprisingly didn’t feel shock, panic, nor any negative emotion, I was mostly curious about what the performance warning meant.
For (1): most people I’ve worked with in the last 5.5 years know I’ve been nomadic since the pandemic. I became fully remote on paper at the end of 2021, and I didn’t stop nomad life. I haven’t stopped, and it’s my lifestyle. A few years ago, I already made up in my mind that if any job requires me to go live in a place, I’m going to quit. I realize there’s a lot of privilege in that, but it was a decision that I consciously and intentionally made a long time ago.
It’s a lifestyle that is bigger than my job, and I’ve always had the viewpoint that life includes work but work is not life. Going back to a settled lifestyle would be extremely difficult to me, and I’m convinced of that even more after last year. To the outside world, this may just seem like I’m complaining about not traveling anymore, but it goes beyond that. I don’t know how to properly describe what this lifestyle means to me, but in a nutshell: it’s the way I grow, widen my horizons, and become a better person. It keeps my mind interested, engaged, and thinking. Living a settled lifestyle gives me a hamster-wheel feeling, one that isn’t growth-inducing — and growth is one of my core values.
I’m actually sure my work has improved because I have more perspectives and ways of thinking as a result of talking to so many people with such varied backgrounds and opinions. Also, along with having interacted with so many people, I became a better communicator with people who communicate in different ways. Work aside, I can’t imagine living my life any other way. Imagine if one day, you’re told you need to start living nomadically. That’s probably how I feel about being told to stop.
For (2): I’m not sure if a performance warning is the same as a PIP at other companies, but I asked a lot of questions. I was asked to sign the performance warning to acknowledge I was given it, but it’s in effect regardless. So, to minimize any negative emotion, I chose not to read it and I’m not signing it.
To give some concrete dates, calculations, and context:
- Dec 15: told by ex-manager that I’m changing teams
- Dec 17: meet with new skip-manager as my manager was on PTO until Dec 18
- Dec 18: meet with new manager
- Dec 24: officially changed to new manager in the system
- Dec 24, 25, 31, Jan 1: US holidays, no work
- Jan 5, half of Jan 6: team summit
- Jan 19: US holiday, no work
- Jan 26-Feb 9: took vacation days
- Feb 10: asked manager what I should do, started (I have proof) and continued for the week until Feb 12
- Feb 12: got performance warning
From Dec 24 to Feb 12, there were 3 days in Dec (one was me flying to the Bay Area for team summit), 15 days in Jan (1.5 days were team summit, one was flying out of the Bay Area from team summit), and 3 days in Feb. So in effect, there were 17.5 working days that wasn’t travel days + team summit before I got the performance warning.
When I asked HR this, they told me there was no output in January, so they gave me this to start getting output. There was no output in Jan because I was talking to people about my job, looking for other positions, working on work that was partly done (I have proof of this). A blog post I wrote that will get launched after I leave got delayed because engineering got delayed. My new manager also never gave me work to do, and suddenly the morning of Feb 12, I was also told “January is the end of your transition period” which was the first time I had heard of this. Well, if January is the end and I started to work on Feb 10 on the new team’s stuff, what is the problem? The more I think about it, the more I’m certain this new manager wants me gone, which is probably most cases of performance warnings / PIP. I’m also pretty sure one of the main reasons she wanted me gone was because I spoke up for what I thought was right and didn’t just blindly obey her.
HR told me the word “insubordination” was also used in the performance warning. I almost burst out laughing when I heard that, as it conjured an image of a dog being told to obey. It’s funny because in all my 10.5 years of being employed (11.5 years if you include the four internships I did), I’ve never been forced to do work I didn’t want to do nor told I have to obey. So yes, I’m “insubordinate” because I wanted to keep doing Firebase work, but I didn’t say I’m not doing the new team’s work. This just further confirms that the new team’s culture is top down where obeying is the only option. Yikes.
The process for the performance warning is: HR works with my manager to monitor my performance, and my work has to meet expectations. There’s no specific timeline, and they look for moving quickly and meeting standards. If you’re just automatically producing quality content, then all is well. If not, then they look at the rate at which you’re improving with feedback given. I know the loophole in all of this is that your manager can just keep saying the quality isn’t there if they want you terminated.
You get an email confirming you’re meeting expectations, and then HR still makes sure you’re continuing to doing so. HR told me they’re on the case for 8 weeks in total, I’m not sure if that means you have 8 weeks as I was told they don’t give timelines. If you don’t improve quickly enough, you get terminated.
You’re also given a choice of taking severance, and I found out unused PTO is paid out as well. The only caveat is I’m giving three work days to say I want the severance, starting Feb 13. There’s no work this Mon, so I have until Wed, Feb 18 to say I want it. Otherwise, it’s assumed I decline. The last working day would be the day I accept the severance, and my last day at the company is five days after that.
I asked if I get moved teams, what happens? HR said presumably then, you’ve moved to a team you want to be on so this mostly goes away but they still make sure you’re performing up to standards.
During the 30-min conversation I had with HR, I knew I had to ask my skip’s manager about whether there’s a chance I get moved to the team I want to be on. He’s also the one out of office until Feb 23, so I asked the person appointed in his OOO email. That person couldn’t do anything and suggested I ask this OOO person’s manager.
I did and we had a chat. I briefly explained what happened, I’m not sure if my situation was already relayed. In any case, I was told that Firebase would be overstaffed and this new team needs people. I said my skip’s manager had said something about “if” and switching me with someone to my new team. This manager said no. I did wonder if my skip’s manager were here, would the result be different? Surely he didn’t tell me to talk to people I wanted to report to for no reason.
What I couldn’t get past, and honestly still can’t get past, is that the team is willing to let go of a person who has done good work instead of move me back to a team where I will do good work? My skip’s manager (the OOO one) had told me in our chat that I’m valuable and have done good work.
In any case, that’s how I came to the decision that I’m taking the severance. There’s no way I’m staying on this team, and I knew that pretty early on; I just had to figure out how to get out of it. Quitting on my own was always an option. I’m so, so, so tired of dealing with this team and all of this mental stress cannot continue. If I try to pass the performance warning on this team, I still have to work on this team if I succeed unless I find another team fast enough. I don’t want to do the work on this team nor interact with my manager. Also, the manager can say whatever they want about the quality of my work to get me terminated. Seeing that we don’t have a great working relation and I’m pretty sure I’m right in the manager wanting me gone, I’m not going to bank on that.
But actually beyond the work itself, the end of nomadic life is not an option. That was at the back of my mind as I contacted everyone I needed to contact shortly after my meeting with HR — I had decided years ago that when the company asks me to return, I quit. I had to move quickly about getting an answer on whether I can move back to a Firebase team though, so I put the nomadic life problem out of my mind while I did so. After I was told no, I came back to this and realized no matter what the team outcome was, I wouldn’t be happy. I might’ve prolonged my employment for a few months to get everything in order, but the end result would’ve been the same.
When I realized that I’m leaving, I was actually so relieved, so happy. I’m free. I don’t need to deal with this team situation, lack of psychological safety, and all-encompassing negative feelings anymore. Work will no longer be what’s constantly on my mind, what I talk to other people about — I’ve never been one to do that. I’m not worried about finding another job. I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. And I thought: wow, I’m going to have to write a goodbye email.
This isn’t the reaction or the day I thought I would have, but it ended up being great. I was smiling on my way back to my accommodation from, incidentally, an office. What’s ironic is that in the morning, I had looked up orgs that had Voluntary Exit Programs which are opportunities to say you want to leave with severance — my org is not on the list but I thought it’d be great if they would in the next 1–3 months. Then, all of this happened later in the day.
It’s extremely unfair that thanks to the good and variety of work I’ve done in the past, I got re-org’d without a say about my career, and it ended like this. This is another sad example where it doesn’t matter what you do for your job or how good you are at it — it can be taken away in an instant. I was shown this in plain sight when my entire last SWE team was laid off a few years ago even though they were working on high-priority features on a high-priority product, all because they were too expensive. All brilliant engineers, great people.
So because it can be taken away in an instant, I’m grateful that I had 7.5 years of that instant. 7.5 great, long years with mostly wonderful, genuinely helpful and kind, knowledgeable, inclusive, and all-around amazing human beings that I got the privilege to work with for more than half of my tech career, for almost a quarter of my life so far. I feel extremely lucky that I got this opportunity to work on a product I think truly matters, one that people use, one where I got to teach and hear about how it has helped them.
Along the way, I also feel immensely lucky that I had so many opportunities to make an impact in a space I care about: diversity, equity, and inclusion. Even before joining, I believed that education is a way to close the gap for women and minoritized groups. I was extremely pleasantly surprised to find ways to help this space during most of my career here through sitting on panels, speaking at events, mentoring, leading a group of students to build a project, teaching a university course (twice!), and much, much more. It’s unfortunate that the company decided to remove these programs due to the current government, but I’m grateful that I was able to participate so much with the support of all of my managers and colleagues.
What’s next? Although I’ve turned on my LinkedIn profile to remote Developer Advocate positions, I told myself last year that when I leave this company, it’ll be my exit from tech. I don’t agree with the way AI is going, and I don’t want any part to do with AI wiping out humanity (search for “ASI”). Two months ago, I told my friend without thinking that one day, you’ll be able to tell a robot to go kill a person for you. I shocked myself after I said that because I hadn’t thought it before but believe it’s true.
I have for a long time wanted to open a hostel, finish a Couchsurfing app I haven’t touched for a few years, and run a food walking tour in Taiwan. I get excited whenever I talk about any of these, so maybe it’s time to pursue it. In the short term, I have travel plans as usual, so I’m not in a rush as aside from the app, I’ll have to stop traveling to start the project.
I’ve also thought about teaching part of the year. As many of you might know, I taught Intro to Computer Science during the fall semester for Google in Residence (GIR) twice at Fisk University in Nashville, TN — once remotely during 2020, and again in-person in 2023. This is a program partnering with HBCUs and HSIs where we leave our role for a semester and go in-person to teach at the university, all-encompassing lecturing, making class materials, and grading.
GIR unfortunately was removed from the company due to the current government, but it, along with its sister program, was transferred to a non-profit. This means that anyone outside the company can do it, which is good news for me. There are a few details I’m still waiting for to decide, but I have reached out to the non-profit (who knows me as I’ve been quite involved with them). I also want to think about what computer science education should look like given AI; if you have any opinions, I’d love to chat about it.
I feel so, so free. I have my whole life ahead of me, and I get to continue living the life I want to live. The day this happened didn’t seem like a bad day, although it was a big day. I think because I had already thought, prepared, and decided a few days before it happened in my mind what I would do if I don’t get back on my team, I wasn’t shocked nor panicked when I heard the news. If anything, this was the next best outcome after not being put onto the team I wanted to be on; I just didn’t know it was an option.
That’s a reminder to always chase what I want, because I have the choice to do so (I acknowledge the privilege in being able to do so, so this is absolutely not advice to all people). I’m grateful for having the life I get to live, and I’m so thankful for all the people I’ve come across in the last 7.5 years at this job. I can’t describe how much I’ve learned about writing high-quality, robust, maintainable code as well as creating storylined, flowy blog posts, videos, and presentations. Perhaps more importantly is learning what a truly amazing work culture is like and what it means to uphold those values. I’ve learned from the best, and words can’t describe how truly, deeply grateful I am, how lucky I feel to have gotten these opportunities.
So long my teammates, it’s been one hell of a ride. I hope our paths meet again down the line, and please don’t hesitate to reach out. I would love to hear how you’re doing.
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I wanted to keep a copy of the goodbye email I’m sending to colleagues, so I’m copying and pasting it here (sent on Feb 18, 9AM ET):
Hi friends,
I don’t know where to start, there are so many things to say. Today is my last day here, a sentence I didn’t think I’d say so soon after an amazing 7.5 years on Firebase. The overwhelming feelings I have today are deep, deep gratitude, the feeling of being extremely lucky, and emotional — not for leaving this job, but for leaving the people and the culture that made my job what it is. We talk about impact all the time here, and as I wrote this, I realized impact goes beyond metrics. It’s the impact you’ve had on me that’s going to last.
I’m so, so, so deeply grateful and happy for getting the opportunity to work with you. When I interviewed with Google, I remember hearing interviewers’ favorite part of the job being the people. I thought they were just saying that, but I knew why the moment I started. The culture here is unparalleled to anywhere I’ve worked — such an open, helpful, psychologically safe, respectful, collaborative, and inclusive environment, with people to uphold those cultures and values. I forget a lot of the time that the rest of the world is not this way and need to remind myself how lucky I am and to not take it for granted. I’d be hard-pressed to find another culture like this.
Words can’t describe how much I’ve learned — of course the technical skills but also how to be a good teammate, how to support the culture that is here. I’ve learned from the best, and I’ve been inspired in more ways than I can count. I’m truly blessed to have gotten the opportunity to be here.
A few special thanks to -
NYC Firebase SWE (+ UX + wider console team): the first team I joined. You gave me an unexpectedly soft landing, then taught me how to write high-quality, robust, maintainable code. You made me a better engineer. You introduced and instilled in me the amazing culture and showed me countless examples of how to uphold it. I always told people that going to work felt like hanging out with people while doing my job, and I will forever miss our pizza debates, hallway conversations, and the amazing 16th-floor view. Even though I’ve since left the office and the team, I still always stalk the chats to see what ya’ll are up to and very much want to join all the lunch trains.
Firebase DevRel: a pivot to my career; I love coding and didn’t know I could love another role even more. Thank you for taking a chance on me when I had no experience, for showing me how to write and make storylined, meaningful blog posts, videos, and presentations, for how to think about developers. I’m constantly inspired by your creativity, ideas, and excitement of thinking how to make our developers happier, and your bountyless energy to do it all. I’m amazed every time I see the volume of high-quality work supported by such a small and mighty team.
GIR: it’s so rare to meet a group of people who are so deeply passionate about education and DEI, and I’m so grateful that I got to ride this journey — twice. I still look back and cherish this time fondly, not only because of the students we had the privilege to teach but because of our deep conversations and thoughts about society and equity, along with problems and solutions for our classrooms due to that. I was always so excited for weekly chats during the semester, and no matter what was going down that week as they always felt fulfilling, meaningful, and inspiring. We’ve all said many times that this is (one of) the most meaningful experiences we’ve had in our lives, and I’m so thankful and grateful that I got to experience it with you. To the PgMs who ran and supported the program: thank you for what you do, for being there during our semesters, for your continued support of programs like these, for bringing this program to life. To GIRs outside my cohorts, thanks for your advice, our interactions, and putting up with me asking you to volunteer for random things.
Colleagues I’ve met from DEI / education / recruiting efforts / programs: I learned so much participating in these — from interacting more and more intimately with the people we were trying to help, to finding my voice and using it to amplify voices that are often stifled in society. Thank you for letting me be part of it, as it is a big chunk of my learning and growth here, and these experiences highly enriched my time here.
Thank you to everyone who has supported my career, given me advice, taught me what you know, showed up for me in unexpected ways, and given me your time. I feel so blessed.
I always wonder what the true reason for a person leaving is, so I’ll be honest. Long story short, I was re-org’d out of Firebase onto a Cloud team that misaligned with my moral values with a manager who I felt psychologically unsafe with and didn’t trust. Quite literally — overnight, I had a job I loved turned into a nightmare, a career that was forced upon me without my say. I started hating work days and a jolt of anxiety went through me every time I received communication from my management chain, followed by dread because I had to answer. I spent a lot of emotional and mental energy fighting for the job I had and loved (and looked internally otherwise), and in the process, I was given a performance warning with the option to take severance. I felt relieved because the nightmare was about to be over, the most stressed and mentally unhealthy I’ve been in my entire 10+ years career. After getting final confirmation that I could not move back, I made the decision to leave, a moment that made me feel relieved, free, and happy. I have a detailed blog post about this journey if you want to read it. Thank you to those who gave me time and advice while I was going through this.
7.5 years feels like a long time, but it also feels like a short time. There’s so much more to do, so much more to learn, so many more good chats and good times with amazing people. As I think about what I’m doing next, I’m continuing to live nomadically, and truthfully, I might teach or do travel-related work. Regardless, my time here with all the wonderful people have a special place in my heart, and I’ll always be cheering for Firebase from the sidelines, hopefully from not too far away.
Let’s keep in touch — don’t hesitate to send a random message, I’m always up for a chat. Also, don’t be too surprised if I reach out asking to catch up if I visit the city you’re in!
Cheers,
Andrea