Catching Up in Early April
I just realized we’re six days into April and I haven’t posted yet. Well, what with this school thing and work, I haven’t had a lot of time to write.
Just last week, I wrote a paper for school on data warehousing. I like that I’m becoming more knowledgeable about this information technology stuff.
The beauty of this online master’s program is that all we pretty much do is research and write stuff, which has been up my proverbial alley for years. I’m only in my first course, but there are no exams where one has to memorize material.
The longtime friend who years ago tagged me with the name of this blog is also in an online master’s program. He’s the human resources honcho. We talked the other day and marveled over how well we’re doing in our courses.
We talked about our respective high school and undergrad days, when academics were not exactly at the tops of our priority lists. So far, it’s looking like I have an “A” in this course. I lost 10 points because I made a mistake and didn’t upload a form that evaluated my teammates’ participation in a group project.
HR dude is about halfway through his program and is carrying a 4.0 GPA. That shocked the heck out of me.
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I spent Sunday afternoon canvassing our NJ neighborhood with The Spouse, knocking on doors and asking people to vote for her in the upcoming school board election. That was actually kind of fun.
I’m wondering what would happen assuming she gets elected. Would you believe all kinds of crazy isht starting going through my head? Today the school board, tomorrow the state legislature, then the next day, Congress, baby! And trust, I wouldn’t mind riding her coattails one bit.
However, I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t want to go through all that, politics being the dirty game that it is. But it’s nice to dream….
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Oh, and April 7 marks the youngest son’s 9th birthday. Man, they grow like weeds. Seems like yesterday my wife told me she was pregnant with him, throwing me into a state of sheer panic and shock. It was summer 1999, our older two were 11 and 10 and we thought those two would be the only output of the kid-manufacturing division of Profunksticated, Inc.
I exclaimed, “How the hell did that hap-….Oh, never mind.”
You know very well how that happened:) LOL! Congrats on the schooling. My semester startted today. Not looking forward to it either.
23, welcome back! Haven’t heard from ya in a while. Thanks much for the encouraging words on school. You’ll do fine in your courses. You seem like you’ve got that time management thing down to a precise science.
Comment by S23 — April 6, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Unexpected pregnancy. I know a woman who will be 51 on Friday. She is PREGNANT!!!! PREGNANT by her 30 year old boyfriend NOT her 78 year old husband. Granted she’s in great shape and looks 35, but still…Oh and get this…She’s got notions of having an abortion, telling her boyfriend she had a miscarriage, and never mentioning it to her husband. Oh and the husband would know it wasn’t his because they don’t sleep on the same floor, let alone in the same bed. My response when an older relative told me, “I don’t think a doctor will give her an abortion. She’s probably too old. She should call CNN and try to get some press for her amazing accomplishment.”
So having that ’surprise’ third child ain’t that bad. Could be worse.
Hey, Hostess! Trust, I don’t think it bad at all that my third one showed up when he did. At least my wife and I each know that that he’s ours. As far as the woman, I don’t 51 is that old, although it’s probably too old to be having a kid. By the time the kid turns 20 she’ll be 71 and her husband will be 98. About CNN, I don’t know. The Octomom is gonna be a hard act to follow…
Comment by Hostess — April 7, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
LOL @ Oh, never mind!!
Congrats on all you’ve got going on. You’re a busy man!! And thanks for posting something. I like to know how my folks are doing every now and then.
A, happy to oblige. Yeah, there’s a lot going on in old Pro’s life. But it’s all good.
Comment by A — April 9, 2009 @ 9:13 am