It’s midnight here in the Twin Cities and I wanted to share a short story (and some thoughts). I woke up this morning around the usual time, and looked out the window, and saw a most beautiful thing: Snow on the ground. This apparently occurred overnight while the Big Guy (me) was sleeping. It just […]
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Lailah – Unusual phone call request
Got home from class tonight and my phone starts to ring – unusual since it was ~9pm. Seems Lailah asked her mom to call Granpa Brian to see if he was available to play with her tomorrow (this, in addition to my usual Friday playdate with her). I had to check my social/business calendar (I’m […]
Lailah – Sam’s Club and the Dollhouse
Note to self: when taking the granddaughter to Sam’s Club, do not, repeat, do not, take her down the toy aisle. Silly me, we passed a 3 story dollhouse sitting on a shelf. I picked her up to show her all the various rooms and furniture in it. Tried to move on many times, but […]
Babysitting the Granddaughter
So. I had the baby girl (Lailah) yesterday. She is such a hoot to be around. Picked her up at 11:30 and it was sprinkling a bit so she didn’t want to go to the park. We went home and did so many things together (painting, of course, some choo-choo trains, etc.), but the best […]
UHG interview (via U/Saint Thomas)
Had a 45 minute Interview at U/ST, with a VP/Technology at UnitedHealthGroup (Optum div.) this morning. Very very smart gentleman – felt at ease with him and the majority of the time was able to directly answer his questions without any hemming/hawing. Only one question stumped me… I didn’t ask how many openings there were, […]
