Dreaming since 1980....

CONGRATS! Jocelyn Pena, welcome to the world!

Found out my good friends Don and Angela delivered, well she delivered, a healthy baby girl this morning/afternoon. Wanted to welcome baby Jocelyn Pena into the world on December 19th, 2010! So happy for them and excited to meet her tomorrow. Congratulations guys, I’m so proud and happy for the family.

I wonder if I can train my body to stay up for 2 days then rest for say 10-12hrs. To much to ask?

Thankful…

First off let me apologize as it’s 3:58am and I am writing this on a whim, so early apology for incoherent sentences and misspellings.

Thanksgiving is a time for reflection and the same thought that the year has flown by way quicker then any other year. For years, 10 to be exact, I spent my Thanksgiving eve into early Thanksgiving morning at a Best Buy store preparing for the craziness of what is called Black Friday. As crazy as it sounds, I actually mostly liked it, well up to about 2am actually. I liked the planning, executing and comradere you got when you are working on the same goal with others that you respect, admire and shared a good portion of your life with. As I think back I realize times like that made me a better person not just at work but in life in general. It’s amazing how things you learn on a job are transferred into real life. From hard work, determination, grit, how you treat others, everything helped me grow as a individual. It makes me thankful for the life that I have lived up to this point and thankful for the people that I have been able to surround myself with, regardless on whether or not I speak with them now. All the people I have interacted with and were able to spend 5 REAL minutes with has probably some influenced me on how I live to this day. Be it the person who I saw Sunday mornings for 4 hrs a week or the barista who makes Soy Hazlenut Latte or the friend I speak with via email every 6 months. I am a reflection of my environment and the people I surround myself with and honestly I feel like I’m a good judge of character.

So on this day of thanks I want to say I appreciate everyone around me from my past and present for making me the man I am, who I don’t think is to bad a guy. Enjoy the day with the ones that mean the most to you sharing food, smiles, laughs, maybe some tears. Sometime during your day take a step back and give thanks for what you got, I know I will.