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Settling in.
Gotta stay optimistic right? It is easier for me to stay optimistic because I am still working, but then I talk to my youngest who is watching helplessly as his once thriving business collapses. It is hard to comprehend that an entire industry can, within a week, almost completely disappear. He sells fresh-cut flowers and…
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A little calm before the storm…and then an earthquake.
Which is the extravegence a gun or a shopping cart full of toilet paper? Last night watching the news I was struck by something odd. I couldn’t help but feel scared for all the millions of people now affected by America shutting down but realized a lot of those businesses closing; restaurants, bars and theaters…
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Explaining the world to mom
Navigating the world on the eighth floor. My mom will be 92 May 12th. My wife and I share a condo with her and have for the last several years. Over our 39 years of marriage she has lived with us on three other occasions in three different states. Each time has been on my…
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Strange Days
The great equalizer. I am not sure at what stage we are with the Coronavirus, now called Covid 19, but I fear it will get much worse. It has seemed like most news; it is from somewhere else so we are out of harms reach. It was playing out like a movie; countries falling into…
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Learn to play.
Like the song says…”Teach your children well”… My week is generally consumed with work. What needs to be done, what didn’t get finished and what’s next. At the end of it is a weekend. If I’m lucky I have planned an activity that gets me out of my home office and focuses my attention on…
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a visit to Rootstech
It was an unexpected religious experience. It may of been a short month but it was certainly a long week and appreciated its conclusion. Saturday was my 4th annual pilgrimage to Rootstech. If you are interested at all about genealogy and or DNA, Salt Lake City is the place to be this week. I only…
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Work ethics-learned or inherited ?
Do I get a “mulligan” for being a flake at twenty-years old? I confess to struggling as of late to stay motivated career-wise. I won’t belabor that fact but will also include that I never miss a day of work because of it. I’m fortunate to have good health and am not lazy by nature…
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Are you relevant?
Personally or professionally, you choose. Early yesterday morning I found an article in a digital trade publication that caught my eye. It was actually a side-bar article within an article on being positive and surrounding yourself with positive people. The author’s name was familiar-I have an excellent customer that has spent tens of thousands of…
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Technoway
The easiest way for me to prove some knowledge of tech is quite dangerous. My blog address needs a name upgrade. 60fiveonup just rolls off the tongue right? Yeah, I agree. I have owned Curiousroots.com for several years and need to figure out how to meld the two together. I purchased that name after discovering…
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Random thoughts
Followed through on going to the range and the doubts are creeping back in… Lisa and I were nervously excited about shooting together for the first time. I had a plan how the day would be go and had built the days activities around that plan. We were thrown a curve-ball: Our oldest was traveling…
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