The first assignment involved posting an introduction for the course. Here’s mine:

Hi! My name is Ron and I like long walks on the beach, cuddling, and sarcasm.

I am nearing the end of my two year program. Clocking in at nearly a decade, it has easily been the longest two years of my life. Life is what happens while you’re making plans–or so I’ve heard. I am a Business Management major. Currently, I’m also the Chief Technology Manager for a civil engineering firm in Northern Virginia. As a result, my time is stretched a bit thin.

If student success were a food, it would be a house salad because everyone knows that–deep down–it is what they really want or need but some of us skip it to have room for the cheesecake instead.

I blame them because this past weekend was a family reunion.  The last family reunion was eighteen years ago.  Now I’m suffering flashes of memory.  Some of them are beautiful.  Many of the flashes are sad.  A few are happy. 

They’re all quite random. 

The morbid part of my psyche wonders if I’m not lying down some where, bleeding out and suffering the cliched life flashes.  The rest of my psyche is just sitting back and trying to drink in the past, drink in the beauty.

I have worked every day this week.  I did not work that much Monday or Tuesday but today, today I did my seven hours.  I thought I knew what I was getting into when I signed on as CTM.  Okay, I actually did expect this on occasion but not on my week of vacation. 

Since I took over, we have had nothing but trouble with our domain controller.  It will pass, I am sure.  Hopefully sooner rather than later.

For the moment, I’m just relaxing in a recliner, leaning back, feet kicked up with an old school batman t-shirt on.  It is good to be on vacation.