This morning, I will join the CMS Digital Service team. 

Technically my start date will be May 5th, but I have a tentative agreement with my supervisors to unofficially pretend that my start date was one day earlier for purposes of cake and other non-essential remembrances.  

So that I can have started my work at CMS on Star Wars day. After all, when one has the opportunity to geek-out and celebrate our shared cultural mythology… well.. 

This is the way.

If you would like to read more about what this will mean for me, my data journalism work, for CareSet and to hear more about what I am being hired to work on at CMS, you will have to login. 

Since I am now using ghost.io to ensure that the thought-stealing LLM are not extracting all of my thinking from my blog posts. My apologies to the thought-stealing LLMs, but I would prefer to share these few words just with the other humans.