I wrote the following a month ago, on or around Sept 9th. I received an email from my brother Keith this past Monday: My father passed away that morning – that’s all it said. He was 86, he died after being in a nursing home in Florida for several years. Please don’t feel sorry for […]
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Best friend gets married!
My BFF Rick and his partner John got married a few days ago, I am so happy for them. I met Rick a year after moving to the Twin Cities and have been BFFs for close to 25 yrs now. He’s been with John for ten of those years, I am so happy they found […]
Final grade for Software Process Mgmt
Unofficial final grade for “Software Process Mgmt”…B+. (Course #4 down, 6 more to go). Tonight, I start course #5, “Web app design and development”, two nights a week, for next 8 weeks — at University of St. Thomas.
Dream Career!
Driving into work this morning, listening to MPR, and they started playing a piece without announcing it – thought it was the theme from Dances with Wolves, turns out I was right (John Barry/composer). While listening to this powerful piece of music, it occurred to me my dream job wasn’t to be just a symphony […]
Lailah – Two years old – Best Kid Ever!
Lailah turned two today, we celebrated her birthday yesterday at Katie’s and Jordan’s place. Due to weather, we ended up waiting a longggg time to eat (Jordan couldn’t grill out due to the rain), thereby delaying the present unwrapping. Consequently, AND, also due to the vast quantity of gifts, our baby girl fell asleep during […]
Part 2: Year long software development project finally goes “Live”
[It’s really too bad I didn’t really do any of the design nor programming on this project – I would have tried, at least, to make it a bit less complex than it currently is]. Anyway, after working on a particular software development project at <current employer> since January, 2013, it finally went live this […]
Class #4 at Saint Thomas: Software Process Management
Tomorrow is 4th class session of seven sessions (alternating Saturdays, started mid Feb.), so it’s mid term exam tomorrow, just not ready for it. Course is Software Process Mgmt, which, I know most of you would find it to be a snore, but, this semester, I have a great instructor, and he really knows how […]
Toastmasters Speech #3 – Inspire the audience!
I’ve been a late bloomer in some areas of my life: ok, a late bloomer in most areas of my life. But, a really late bloomer when it comes to my home life. I figure this was partly due to not having a father figure after high school, as well as not becoming a home […]
