Misc.
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Embracing being “Plans Optional”
It has been a while since I’ve provided an update, despite that I have several ideas for posts floating around my head. But whenever I go to put them on the site, I invariably have been drawn to another activity that seems like it’d be more fun. So the site has gone in-loved for a…
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Purple Hair!
I finally took the plunge and colored a purple stripe into my grey hair. Over the past couple years I’ve occasionally used a 1-day hairspray type of hair coloring to give myself a purple stripe. I place it behind my right ear into a particularly light white streak so the color shows up well. I’ve…
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Last Day of Work
My last Friday working and the day the company sold were emotional, but not in the way I had expected. While I will likely be somewhat involved with my company for several weeks to come, the last Friday of drawing salary before the company was to be sold on Sunday felt very much like a…
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The Move to Madison
We’ll miss Minneapolis, but we’re excited to be baaaaack! We lived in Madison from June 2001 to July 2017, in the Spring Harbor neighborhood. It was during this time that our kids were born, we bought our first house, we got our first dog (and then our second), and I started my company. We have…
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Selling our house
February 24th Although it is warmer than typical in Minneapolis, it is too cold to spend the entire day outside I am therefore hanging out in a hotel lobby downtown, an interloper hunkered into a comfy chair in a back room lounge, while strangers walk through our carefully-staged home to determine if they want to…
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Timeline to RV Life
It was a long time in the planning phases, but then felt like it came together very quickly at the end. I am very fortunate that I started a company ~20 years ago and it was successful…by my standards at least. I had amazing employees and was lucky that my right-hand woman wanted to buy…