Here’s a journal entry I created in March 2021. Good to look back sometimes. This weekend, I traveled to West Sacramento to spend time with a friend. The plan was loosely based on drinking – beer, wine, Gin & Tonics, and maybe watching a movie or two. While places are Read more…
What a year this has been so far. While I thought 2018 was difficult – a year of many endings and chapters closing; 2024 has been a ‘hold my beer’ kind of year. Recovering from TKR and dealing with being laid off without much of a parachute is tough enough, Read more…
From Wikipedia: “The Eurovision Song Contest, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed live and transmitted to national broadcasters via the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries’ songs to determine a winner.” The Read more…
What have I been up to since March, as I prepared to leave Quotient Sciences and look for my next opportunity? I have taken advantage of this transition to take care of some things and set myself up for the future. While these times can be stressful, I’ve been through Read more…
Last I wrote about my knee, it was to report my retirement from running. The knee specialist had prescribed an ‘unloader’ brace that would shift my weight from the inside of the knee (where the bone-on-bone arthritis was the worst) to the outside of the knee, and informed me that Read more…
There was recently a post on LinkedIn asking about things that had happened in the careers of HR professionals that the Human Resources certification didn’t cover. It got me thinking and I started to think back over my nearly 30-year career and come up with some (by no means, all) Read more…
The one constant in my life since I was 16 years old is my running – the longer the distance, the better. Though, I am not by any means an ultra-runner or marathoner, my preferred race distance being 10 miles, through thick and thin, running has been there for me. Read more…
23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Read more…
For my birthday weekend this year, I decided to hop the Accela and take the ‘just over an hour’ train ride up to New York City for the weekend. Leading up to my departure, things were not going well at work. Frustration building, I checked out earlier trains and booked Read more…
This year, I decided to do Dry January. This started in the UK by Alcohol Change UK and was designed to encourage people to sign-up to abstain from alcohol for the month of January. The idea was that over the year-end holidays, people tend to drink a lot of alcohol. Read more…