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  • My Mission In Life

    One of the things I have spent some time on this week is defining my mission statement as a result of taking the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People training. While I’m not there yet—is anyone ever really there?—I am a lot farther along than I was. I want my mission statement to be simple.…

  • Keeping Up With Who?

    Props to Merlin over at 43 Folders for pointing me at The myth of “keeping up” on stuff. This is something else that falls out of the concept of being honest with yourself. If you can look at everything in your life and be truly honest with yourself about whether or not you can realistically do it–or even should–then…

  • Changing Priorities

    I was recently asked to drop everything and write up a plan for something. A couple of hours later, I had a reasonably well detailed about what needed to be done. I needed a time estimate for this task—an estimate I wasn’t exactly qualified to make. I send out the plan for review. No response.…

  • Being Honest With Myself

    One of the guys who moderate my FireWall-1 Gurus Mailing List wrote these couple of paragraphs in a private mail exchange. I felt the advice given herein was good enough to share with the rest of the class: I have been through some rough times and have learned the hard way (enough to risk my…

  • Another Day-Before Easter in Seattle

    When I lived in California, rain pretty much caused activities to grind to a halt. Here in the Seattle area, things generally happen rain or shine. Today was no exception as our neighborhood had our annual Easter Egg hunt in the rain and had a fairly good turnout. Even the Easter Bunny sat out in…

  • The Ten Commandments

    For the past several years, ABC in the US has shown the legendary Charlton Heston / Yul Brynner flick The Ten Commandments. Even 50 years later, this movie is still quite a cinematic feat. The special effects definitely show their age, but I’m sure they were great for their time. The acting is top-notch and…

  • Another Day-Before Easter in Seattle

    When I lived in California, rain pretty much caused activities to grind to a halt. Here in the Seattle area, things generally happen rain or shine. Today was no exception as our neighborhood had our annual Easter Egg hunt in the rain and had a fairly good turnout. Even the Easter Bunny sat out in…

  • A Long Week

    This has been one of the more difficult weeks I’ve had in a while. I’ve been sleeping far more than I usually do this week just due to the exhaustion I have been feeling at the end of the day. Part of it is the amount of work that I’ve been doing, part of it…

  • A Positive Week

    Overall, I have to say this has been a productive week in the office. I managed to get a lot done, make some positive “first impressions” on a person that has the potential to be a future boss, and received encouraging news about my future. Considering I’ve heard and seen a lot of bad news…

  • Nothing Like a New Challenge

    Today a co-worker and I had lunch with someone that offered me anopportunity that I haven’t had in quite a while: basically a new job. My day job acquired another company recently and this new group has some support positions open. The products this division supports is a bit different than my current area of…