A week ago, I hit my thirtieth birthday.
Honestly, that’s a pretty significant milestone. I’m not one to pay much reverence to 1/365 days in a year, but three decades worth of living deserves some retrospection.
The first ten years of life are really a blur. You don’t actually start forming memories until roughly five years old. [...]
Just finished watching Overview, which is a movie about the compelling effect of seeing Earth from space. Watch it!
Today, President Barack Obama won back his presidency. I voted for Barack. There are certainly areas he could have done a better job in his first four years, but to me it seems obvious that the ability to accomplish tasks politically was and is much more difficult due to a hostile Republican party. It seems [...]
I’ve fallen a bit from the grind in terms of getting thoughts down. Work has been keeping me busy, and outside of that other pursuits a bit more interesting. Here’s what I’ve been spending time on as of late:
-Finance
Lots of reading on securities. I’m still in the mode of paying of school [...]
Our wedding pictures are from Josh Soper. We have roughly 1,300 total pictures from the day and they are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I really can’t vouch enough for Josh, he was incredibly professional, hard working and simply blew us away. If you are planning a wedding or photography for a special event, hire him. You will [...]
It still amazes me how quickly life has been going this last few years. During school, everything seemed a lot slower than now. Though at the time, it may have seemed very fast moving. Now, it’s hit warp speed. My role keeps me so occupied while at work, it’s difficult to [...]
Way back when, when I was on Facebook, I had a good amount of “friends” on the service, maybe 350-500. I can’t recall the exact number, but it was a lot of people from High School, Undergraduate, Graduate, my various occupational peers and a few randoms as well.
On Twitter I have followed 96 people and [...]
Over the last week or so, I’ve been planning out a honeymoon for Teresa and I to Costa Rica. Setting up travel in another country, in another language often, can be difficult. Luckily, I’m passable at Spanish and have translation websites to help where my feeble skills deem inadequate. Here’s the agenda:
1. Direct flight to [...]
Saying yes is often harder than saying no.
Saying no a defense mechanism for the ego.
A way of prolonging the current long as we can.
Birds in the bush, worth less than one in the hand?
We have evolved to be risk averse and it shows.
Saying yes more difficult than saying no.
Since basketball has ended and my beloved Timberwolves retired to their dens to lick reopened wounds, I’ve been mulling about the apartment with less to do. It struck me the other day that my habits have changed a great deal.
My youthful pursuits included wakeboarding and tubing, basketball, videogames, ladies, kicking it with friends, frisbee golf [...]