Leaving Microsoft?

So you are thinking about leaving Microsoft? (reminds me a little too much of Leaving Las Vegas). My name is Ken Greenebaum and I recently went through the process of leaving Microsoft and taking a self funded sabbatical. I was talking with my friend, John Nordlinger, who left Microsoft a couple of years ago about my recent experiences doing the same. We decided to create this webpage to offer a checklist of good ideas, possibilities, and to point out some of the gotchas. This is definitely a work in progress so please email us your experiences and advice. We will boil it down and put it up here!