it is a serious post and I know the odds of a big win are practically non-existent, but then again so are the odds of the kind of payoff that many on HN have dreamt of at some stage in their life and it hasn't stopped them has it? certainly didn't stop me :)

I'm going to start a teacher training course in September after which I'll hopefully start a career in teaching. Whilst I don't think I'll ever lose the entrepreneurial bug I don't think I'll ever be able to put in as much passion as energy as I have these past few years.

In short, I've peaked, and this is just my idiosyncratic way of saying farewell to that part of my life.