Rockin' A Friday Night Like It's Only Hours Before Saturday!

Okay, 10 years ago, if I would have said:
It's 8pm, my wife is still at work, so I'm rockin' the Sounds of the Seasons channel (playing House Beats during non-seasonal times), sipping on some wine,
I probably would have asked you to shoot me.
Funny how times change.
My mom is walking the Broadwalk in Hollywood, Florida, and had to text me to tell me what a life she has.
Man, it's all good.

Sure, I wish it was me taking a night walk outside in Southern Florida, but I'm glad someone I know is... even as we look forward to more snow tonight (this February has been the 2nd snowiest on record - ugh!).

I don't mind that I'm sitting home listening to Sounds From The Ground and Dark Globe.
I don't mind that I'm swigging wine.
I love being married, and I love my wife.

I love that the Detroit Tigers are starting real Spring Training games.
I love that spring is 4 sundays away, and the time change is 3 sundays from now.

I love that I am starting my new job in just over a week. Man, I've got a lot to learn!

It's a great life.
I didn't know that 10 years ago like I do now.

And by the way, sorry, unless I know you're coming over after dark, I am not answering the door.

Timeout

I just wanted to take a moment to say how proud I am of my wife.

She's had a tough week this week, but she's keeping on keeping on, wearing her brave face.

She's doing great things, and I love her for not losing her head and being the amazing woman she is.

Addy-Ose!

It's been quite a few weeks. I can officially announce that I am changing jobs.

Oddly enough, I attribute this job change to the experiment I conducted in December. At that time, I worked to open myself to infinite possibilities. One of those possibilities happened to come in the form of a number of phone messages from a company that wanted to talk to me about a job.

When I realized this as an opportunity knocking, I listened.

A few weeks, a bunch of interviews, and a lot of anxiety later, I will be starting a new job in March.

Wow!

It should be a blast - I'm so excited to see what I can help this company accomplish!

This naturally takes nothing away from the job I'm leaving. I love the job, I love the people I work with, and I love the paychecks. But opportunity is calling, and I gotta see where it's gonna lead me.

Now all I gotta do is shake this stinkin' cold, and I'll be truly champing at the bit!

(...)

I've been sick to my stomach all day. To find out a tragedy such as friends of mine losing a child to a perfect calamity leaves me terribly sad. And I can't even cry about it.

When I was sick, they were there for the highs and lows. Although he was my mom's boss, he was aware of all that I was going through. And when I completed my treatments, his band played at the party my mom threw for me.

Here we are, just over 8 years later, and though I haven't seen him and his wife in quite a while, I hold them close in my heart.

I am horrified and deeply saddened that such a cruel turn of events has befallen them. Wonderful people, they are, and truly undeserving of such sadness in their lives.

I truly hope that the lesson that needs to be learned as a result of this is a good one, because it's just grossly cruel. Although my eyes cannot cry, I feel like my heart weeps.

Whether you knew it or not, young man, you touched many lives. Godspeed to ye, laddie.