Or: The Longest Move 15 days without heat. 25 days to complete a delayed move, because we really couldn't live without heat. History and some details below. Jen and I moved to New York in July of 2011, and we've lived in the same apartment ever since. A two bedroom, one bath apartment that is quite comfortable in a relatively well maintained building in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn....
"You wanted to be a manager so badly, that you'd probably be a good one. Now you are." Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else. This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management). It bothered me. I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....
What is a personal blog post if it isn't a snippet of autobiography anyway, right? I've written about parts of this for my old web site (the one hosted at home). I'm keeping this professional. It is likely that I'll post this again at some distant point in the future, but with more detail. For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator. This is my story....
I'm in a hotel in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. I'm in the UK on a four week business trip. I have exactly one friend in Devon who is not from work, and I had plans to hang out with her, and meet her husband today. I guess I should say that I had one friend in Devon who is not from work. Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....