It’s New Year’s Eve in rural Douglas County. Lisa and I enjoyed a dinner out tonight. Kind of weird, with none of our kids around on this night, especially after so many years of skipping New Year’s Eve in favor of Bonnie’s Birthday. I recall that crazy night 23 years ago when my Bonbon was brought into the world, and I knew my life, our lives, would never be the same.
I’m thinking about the last year tonight. I remember the phone calls from last January, where I interviewed remotely with folks at Microsoft after I applied for a technical training position. It was a welcome and frightening experience. After all, it was pretty much my dream job to teach for Microsoft.
In February, I had to make one of the must difficult and anguishing decisions of my life. Do I stick with the training center in Kansas City that has been so good and secure for the last sixteen years, or do I pursue my dream job with the company I’ve worked around for most of my IT career?
I made the call, and had the tough conversations. And I left a great training center for the unknown.
Since then, I’ve passed a few more exams, and taught a few more classes. Next year will be more of the same, with more and more virtual deliveries popping up on the schedule. I’m fine with being in front of the room, and I’m ok with virtual deliveries talking into a microphone and hoping for feedback from unseen audiences.
In August, my dad passed. That was the hardest thing I had to deal with this year, this century, this lifetime. I haven’t experienced a lot of death in my life, at least no one as close to me as my father. Others deal with similar and worse every day, but all loss is unique to the relationship and the people in it. I miss my dad every day. I hope I’ve made him proud.
Bonnie graduated from Kansas with her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering. She started her PhD program in Materials Science at Ohio State. Gracie made some decisions about where she wanted to focus her attentions, and I’m trying to be supportive of most of those decisions. Dane graduated high school and started at KU in Mechanical Engineering.
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Now I sit with a 12 year old Macallan, watching “The Witcher” on Netflix. I’ve got an hour and a half until 2020. I want to play more guitar, play more golf, lose more weight, and make the most of my time at home in the next year.
I hope today and in the next year, you find out more about your talents and how you can make the world a better place. I hope you laugh. I hope you love. And I hope the world treats you better than you deserve.
I know the world certainly treats me better than I deserve. I know that every day when I see my wife, my kids, my dogs.
I’m going to keep writing. Hopefully something in what I put down has some residual value.
Happy New Year… and
Peace y’all.
