I thought I should get back to it with a quick post.  In the last month I attended two conferences, one was OpenStack Summit in Vancouver BC, and the other was an internal conference for my company in Phoenix.  Both were good experiences, and I got to see how my company is throwing boatloads of money at the cloud.  Made my decision to stay with cloud feel better, as my transition to seeing a teleworker had me nervous about how long it would last.