Archives for February 2010
The Proposal
Published on 21 Feb 2010 at 3:41 am.
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Any sleep I got was restless at best. I was nervous, that’s for sure and the wheels in my brain were running round and round, over and over, reviewing every detail of The Plan. In my head I rehearsed the speech a hundred times with each time just a little different. Some versions were better and [...]
40 and 1/365 years
Published on 15 Feb 2010 at 8:00 pm.
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Today, I’m 40 and 1/365 years old. I’ve made it through growing up not-so-rich in a single-parent household, a fairly hard undergrad program while working at least one job, worked my way up from the bottom, through a very hard MBA program while watching my wife be very sick, been rich, been broke, been in love [...]
My Birthday
Published on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:19 am.
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My 40th birthday is just a few days away. More than anything as of late I dread that day. It represents a line in the sand I’m crossing, a demarcation of maturity and yet all the underpinnings that make that day (and the rest of my life) exciting have come unpinned. Now, instead of a [...]
Legal Notice in the Newspaper
Published on 9 Feb 2010 at 10:10 pm.
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You know those funny little things you’ve seen in the newspaper but never really understood what they were? You know, way back in the back in the classified ad section. They look like little mini legal gobbledygook documents. You’ve seen them. I’ve always kind of wondered what they were and even what the story was [...]
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Nine Months Today
Published on 4 Feb 2010 at 11:00 pm.
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It’s been nine months as of today. It’s just unbelievably difficult to grasp that it’s been nine months since I’ve last kissed my sweetie. I’ve been staying somewhat busy keeping my engine running one way or another. But I feel like my engine is just sputtering along like those in the old timey cartoons – [...]