Dinner on the outdoor river deck just off of Lake Michigan… sunny and 70… great food, great company. Tomorrow we start eating mostly at home. Found the kitchen the last two days of unpacking. Costco run in the morning, farmer’s market opening day is Saturday. Our goal is strategic meals out, only going to a…
T -2 Days: Beautiful pain
It’s a beautiful kind of pain We are so tired, so sore, so ready to be finished with the move. Feel like we have been packing and unpacking for weeks… actually we have. Not complaining at all. Loving life. Delaying the gratification of stepping foot on the beach. May 1st is almost here! We have…
T -3 Days: Piano death
Boom goes the piano Piano from the basement was heading to the landfill with the movers. Thought it would be a fairly easy task. Except they were one mover short, and the piano is a lot heavier than I estimated, and heavily weighted towards the backend, and slightly soft ground. Dolly wheels hit the soft…
T – 4 Days: Null
My first missed post. Didn’t get back to the hotel room till after midnight. Some problems with the move… 1st world problems… nothing major. Just got the keys to the new place, with movers about an hour out yet. My wife coming separately with the dog is still about 4 hours out. Nervous about where…
T -5 Days: Leaving
Leaving… My last day of working for someone else. Walked out the door for the very last time an hour ago. So, “it is with mixed emotions”… uh… no. “Leaving is bittersweet”… uh… no again. How about: Leaving is like tasting the sweet nectar of the end zone for the very first time, taking the…
T -6 days: Death to finance
Good bye Excel. Good bye SAP. After tomorrow, it is over, done. “So, if the writing thing doesn’t work out, you could always consult or take another finance job” Oh hell no! I’m going all in on “the writing thing”. Seems that the rule of thumb is three to five years before success will come……
T -7 Days: A gift
Today came a Fed Ex package from my friends in Tennessee… what could it be? A Kansas City Royals jersey! What a great present, something I have never owned. My wife has an impressive collection of Royals jerseys, t-shirts, bobble heads and other mementos. She has almost every Mike Moustakas (Royals 3rd baseman) jersey (the…
T -8 Days: Beating the plan
May 1st, 2018 was the goal when I started this countdown. If everything went perfectly, that is the date when we would arrive at the beach in Michigan. We are going to beat that goal by a few days. Three days left at work, movers come in four days, in five days we will be…
T -9 Days: Team
Team work I read a couple of articles on team work and engagement today. Reminded me of a time of sustained intensity. Rare to have both intensity and sustained commitment , I was fortunate to experience it more than once in my career. Many years ago, I joined a tech mfg. company at a location with 2,400…
T -10 Days: Someday
Someday I was critical of a Sally Illingworth post a couple of days ago. But this one below, like the vast majority of her content, is spot on. Don’t wait for “someday”. It will never come. Make it happen. But make it happen in an intelligent, planned way. Modify your plan if you discover it…