Sunday was the bigger celebration at Maggiano’s with a handful of great friends I have in Austin. If there were free Wi-Fi, I would’ve set up a couple FaceTime sessions to bring in far-away guests. I’ll blather on about the dinner later. In short, it rocked to have all those people present.
As for today, it’s mostly “me time” as I reflect and think about where I’m at, where I’ve been and where am I going. In both the third and fourth dimension. Monday I saw my doctor who has been helping out for the last six years. The major observation I told him is how I wish I could have 10-15 years back now that I’m finally getting this “life” thing down. I haven’t mastered it, I just can ride it like a bike without constantly falling down often, I’ll never be Tour de France material despite an Italian winning this Summer!
This birthday, Somara has to go to work so I’ll run 3.1 miles (or more if I’m lucky), then take in the Roger Ebert documentary. He grew up in Central Illinois as I did until I was 14 and I’m looking forward to getting more insight about his writing, tastes and how did he make film criticism more legitimate than Pauline Kael ever could.
Afterwards I’ll probably squeeze in some pinball, writing out the wazoo (a favorite activity) and rush over to complete some cat/house-sitting.
The evening will conclude with the Steve Martin concert. It’s not stand-up comedy but I’m confident he’ll interject some jokes between songs as he plays a killer banjo alongside Edie Brickell and the Steep Canyon Rangers.
Vegas is on the horizon so I’m not too distraught about returning to work on Wednesday. Besides, it’ll be a short work week with Guardians of the Galaxy next Sunday!
One thing I will share with you that I’m not worried about disclosing is how well my recent annual review went at Apple. I kicked serious ass this fiscal year. I pulled out all the stops on what I did to push Enterprise forward. There’s still work to be done and with the IBM matter, I’m glad to see Apple being taken seriously in the Enterprise space again. I’m even more excited to have some additional co-workers sharing my title to spread the knowledge/experience which equals wealth.
Thanks for all your wishes should you leave any! If you want to give me anything, I would appreciate money I could contribute toward my deceased friend Ben’s son Alex. Ben has been gone almost a year now and I started a CD for Alex with co-workers. It would rock to throw some more dough in there to help it grow further.