Another Year Goes By (or Why Is This So Hard?)

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Another year past since I tried my hand at this and I do not know why it is so hard to maintain the momentum. Perhaps it is the holidays that cause me to reflect and remember, but by the new year, I am looking forward spiritually and emotionally and have no time for the past or present. Who knows.

At any rate, today as I write this it is Thanksgiving in the US, so I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.

The only major news I have swirling in my life is a possible promotion very soon to Associate Manager; a step up from Supervisor. It is a lot of extra money and I would have Supervisors report to me, who in turn manage around 100 technicians. If I get it. I am hopeful, but competition is strong. I am hearing that I will find out by next week.

Other than that, things are proceeding in life largely without issue. I have a few things I am going to post as back-fills, as they are sensitive to certain dates, but do not be fooled: Between last December, and this post, I did not write anything.

Thanks for reading, 

-Brent

 

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey.

Jack (or Lanterns?)

 

There is actually more than this...

Just after last Christmas, the wife and I had a discussion about decorating for holidays. In short, she prefers statement pieces, and I prefer LOTS of pieces. So we divided the holidays. I got Halloween to decorate however I wish, and she got Christmas.

We drew those lines mostly as a concession to her Russian heritage which celebrates New Years as we in most other western cultures would celebrate Christmas.

So Halloween I got and I went for something I've wanted to do for a long time: The Haunted Pumpkin Patch. I've got 19 fake pumpkins in all manner of shapes and colors and carved them each differently. Some scary, some benign, and some downright goofy. The picture above only shows 15 of the pumpkins I eventually carved.

Next year, I will add more to the decorations to complete the 'patch' of the so-called 'pumpkin patch'.

Now, like Christmas trees, I would of course prefer actual pumpkins, but since this is indoors and will be reused over and over again, I felt better about using fake pumpkins. I saved the real ones for outside decorations.

Anyway, hope you like them.

-Brent

"Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?" - Linus (It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)