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  • Fun Friday

    Wokring full-time at a home office is becoming comfortable

  • Mix of work and personal connections today

    After a morning meeting, my AA Home Group at the church at 0700, I had a quiet house to myself until H returned from Pilates at Lifetime. I managed some invoicing activity (end of the month) and some communications back-n-forth with clients and tech partners. Then I had an early lunch with a Naval Academy…

  • Day One in Kazakhstan

    Day One in Kazakhstan! We started out on 27APR from Minneapolis, changed planes in Chicago-O’Hare, and a 7-hour flight to Frankfurt. We had a 3-hour layover there, then switched from United to Lufthansa for a 7-hour flight to Almaty. We arrived just after midnight, and spent over an hour processing through passport control. All our…

  • God’s calling

    You need to ask yourself, “Based on how God wired me, what is the greatest contribution I can make? How can I make a difference?” It is exciting and chilling when one is waiting on singlas from God to guide you, and they start to show up all over the place. I pursued the CIO position…

  • It is what it is

    If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? OK, that is a phrase, not a single word, but I would ban its use altogether if it were within my power.

  • Arboretum in Fall

  • Test Post from Journey

    This stuff is awesome!!! Ghost pepper salsa blackgirlsalsa

  • Blog blog bloggity blog

    Soooo long since I’ve posted ANYthing. In a new job now, week and a half in. Too early to tell how I like it. It’s good to be back in a Big IT shop, tho. So many elements of maturity, so different from the 3-5 person IT departments I’ve been with these past 18 months.…

  • ROADTRIP!!

    Off we go to Texas. Week…6? of the new job, and we’re taking a week off to visit David and H’s parents in Texas. Work is (mostly) wrapped up for the week, and we’re roading it in the Expedition through Kansas just now, enroute to Oklahoma. Mamma Bear is anxious as pie to get all…

  • It’s Tuesday!! June 4th and we’re STILL not in summer

    Dismal dreary weather again today. DAB

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