Something a bit lighter

I was watching a presentation today when we got to this 1 slide.  The slide was talking about assessing our current business condition.  Specifically it stated that we would assess our current business requirements.  What was funny (and caught the attention of all of the “attention to detail” engineers) was that the final “s” was [...]

Tough week

It has really been a tough week at work but this is the first I could legally discuss it (publicly, that is). I have survived many layoffs at multiple companies but this was the first time I had to perform the layoff and it was unpleasant to say the least. The people who [...]

Harry Potter – is he dead yet?

I am watching a “news” broadcast (hate to call it news since it is reporting on the Harry Potter books – not exactly news) and they are speculating on the last book of the sequence and whether Harry Potter will die. We are taking a poll in our house. So far Prince Hairy [...]

Thank your local firefighters

This has been a really sad week for firefighters.  Shortly after it happened I heard about the possibility of firefighters potentially dying in the SC fire.   It hit me hard when I found out that 9 died.
As I reflected on this tragedy, many emotions came over me including anger, frustration, sadness… and proud-ness.  I am [...]

Father’s day baseball

It is father’s day – and what am i doing? I spent my whole weekend watching 12 boys play baseball. Saturday was not their best day. We went 1-2. Sunday started out much better. We got to take some revenge on one of the teams that beat us on [...]