Dude!?

Since I took the day off to go to the MIMA summit, I've been paying for it ever since. I've been hit with a ton of work. Some interesting, and some not. Plus, I've been busy with some volunteering and extra curricular activities for work. Here's a short list if your interested:

• Creating new email campaigns
  
• Adding co-marketing events to online forms
  
• Researching ESPs
• Task force duties for documenting and correcting some integration issues
  
• Member of a Mastermind Group
  
• Launching a redesign for Multiple Connections of MN
• Taking first place in the first annual Dresser Dash hosted by Thrivent Financial, benefiting Bridging Inc.

And just today, perhaps the biggest blow I could receive, I learned a fellow co-worker and dear friend would no longer be a member our tightly integrated team as the rest of the team will be leaving our Global Business Solutions home to support Corporate Communications.

I am extremely fortunate to have work with this individual. I have learned an amazing amount of information from them including programming skills, but also how to look at complex problems and break them down into manageable bits; allowing me to create simple, yet elegant solutions.

I wish him the best in his new adventures and hope he knows just how much he'll be missed and that we'll always do anything in our powers to help a brother in need.

With all that being said, I'm still hopeful that we can peruse our dreams of creating our own piece of software.

Most of all, I hope we'll continue to be friends and continue to share our stories about raising our boys and getting together with the families and even having a night out on the town once in a while.

I owe you one ohaiyoo1.