» Update on the past two years
Disappeared for a while, so here’s the update on what’s been going on:
- Started the University at Albany Weekend MBA Program August 2005
- Work full time, school full time
- Spent Thanksgiving in North Carolina – the smoked turkey was divine
- Close friend (Monica) paralyzed in car accident
- Work full time, school full time, lots of trips to NJ
- Spent Christmas with Monica’s son and parents
- Work full time, school full time, ordering lots of movies and music from Amazon for Monica, lots of trips to NJ
- International Business class in Buenos Aires, Argentina - July 2006 – I love Argentina!
- Dad had a stroke – he’s now fine
- Parents moved (again)
- Boss on sabbatical September to December 2006 in Paris so it’s double full-time work plus school, and lots of trips to NJ. New president at work so things were nuts for a while in the transition
- Really sick January and February with bronchitis – took a while to catch up to speed again
- Work full time, school full time, lots of trips to NJ
- June 26 - In a minor bike wreck the day I find out Monica is “very bad” with sudden pnemonia
- June 26-29 - Spent three days by her side until she passed away
- July 1 - Close friends had a baby while I’m visiting on a break from Monica’s family
- Services for Monica July 2&3, 2007
- July 2 - Reconnected with a friend of Monica’s I should have been in touch with long ago
- July 7 - Finished the bulk of the MBA program – one class left for the fall along with my thesis.
- July 9 - Apartment got somewhat broken into (bag stolen from the window) and the police now watch my house
- Parents trying to buy their first house
- Bought a BlackBerry
- Rebuilding a life and actually doing well