Long Time No Speak
I'm uncertain where the month of June went this year. I first realized it was gone when the Fourth of July parade passed by the shop a couple of Saturdays ago.
That, of course, meant that I must have completely missed my sixty third birthday and the third anniversary of my "retirement" from ... uh ... the Skunk Works.
On the home front, the CFO and I recently received the great news that Biscuit is "in a family way". Now at the fourteenth week, she has already heard the heart beating but it is still to early for ultrasound imaging. Accordingly, she and Matteo are busy working a list of suitable monikers. Matteo's contribution, of course, has been mostly exercising some kind of right to veto. Of course, left to him, the baby's name would be something along the lines of "Baby" or "Infant" or whatever it is the midwife might use to describe the newborn. And, yes, midwives are SOP these days in Asheville and its environs.
And, speaking of the CFO, she has come to appreciate summers here on the mountain. She is keeping visits to the flatlands as few and short in duration as possible.
The Backwoods Bean Coffee Shop is still developing nicely. We were "in the black" for Q2. Now it's just a matter of recouping the Q1 "red ink", incurred during start-up, in Q3 and beyond.
More later.
That, of course, meant that I must have completely missed my sixty third birthday and the third anniversary of my "retirement" from ... uh ... the Skunk Works.
On the home front, the CFO and I recently received the great news that Biscuit is "in a family way". Now at the fourteenth week, she has already heard the heart beating but it is still to early for ultrasound imaging. Accordingly, she and Matteo are busy working a list of suitable monikers. Matteo's contribution, of course, has been mostly exercising some kind of right to veto. Of course, left to him, the baby's name would be something along the lines of "Baby" or "Infant" or whatever it is the midwife might use to describe the newborn. And, yes, midwives are SOP these days in Asheville and its environs.
And, speaking of the CFO, she has come to appreciate summers here on the mountain. She is keeping visits to the flatlands as few and short in duration as possible.
The Backwoods Bean Coffee Shop is still developing nicely. We were "in the black" for Q2. Now it's just a matter of recouping the Q1 "red ink", incurred during start-up, in Q3 and beyond.
More later.
Long time no speak........
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you are back, Dave.
ReplyDeleteWhere's Dave??????? Got lost in the curve????
ReplyDeleteMore later????
ReplyDeleteLong time - still no speak...
ReplyDeleteDave,
ReplyDeleteEverything Ok? Tom Rummage
Are you listed on NASDAQ yet? How's business going.
ReplyDeleteDave, after seeing you in action at the coffee shop, I realize that you will never find a replacement for yourself. You are a perfectionist,and thus, you will never be happpy unless you are there.... doing it yourself..... and you love it, for now.
ReplyDeleteWhen it is no longer fun... and becomes like work... you will settle for just about anyone who let you get the hell out of there.
I do miss your words of wisdom on your blog, so I guess I will just have to drink more coffee at the shop.
I am currently fihnsiing up my BA in Child Development and Family Studies and thus far I have only work with children from 2 weeks to adolescent while helping support their families. The Physician that I would want to work under is an Obstetrics (OB) because they are in direct contact with pregnant women and their children during pregnancy. I would choose this particular specialty for a variety of reason such as having the opportunity to see individuals become parent for the first time, seeing how much love is surrounded in the process, being there to help the mothers while there in a vulnerable state. One of my main reasons is because I think that the whole birthing process is fascinating and to be able to be a part of family’s lives while going through this process, I imagine to be extremely rewarding.A of physician specialty that I would least want to work with would be a psychiatrist. Although I believe that psychiatrist do some spectacular work and help a lot of people through difficult situations I personally believe that this job would be to emotionally draining and overwhelming for me. This makes me question whether or not I would be able to handle it. When I set out to do a job my goal is to do the best that I can and I don’t feel that I could successfully do this job to the best of my ability.
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