This year I re-focused my attention on some new priorities. Most of these were new work projects. Last fall we did a lot of work in our performance lab. More recently, I’m really proud of the work being produced at UniCommons.com, a site I developed at the beginning of this year. My work activities coupled with increased enrollment in my classes have kept me extremely busy, which also provides a financial and professional benefit–something at which volunteer work doesn’t do as well. Then things got even more crazy when, for some reason, I got inspired to finish my MBA and enrolled in classes for spring term. I had taken several supplementary business classes in graduate school at other universities that I intended to contribute toward finishing an MBA someday. Now I’ve lined out a schedule to finish at EOU in about a year by taking one or two classes a term.
And on top of all that, cycling remained a priority. My original plan was to train more and race less. Instead, I trained more and raced even more. I picked out all of the toughest stage races within driving distance of La Grande and tore myself up. . .and loved every minute of it. I’ve been all over the west racing and riding my bike this spring. The only thing I missed out on was racing as a collegiate racer this spring, which I found out I am eligible to do now. Maybe next spring.
One of the casualties of my priority shift and work load was an intentional reduction in blogging. No, I haven’t switched my attention to tweeting, although I did set up a twitter account that is currently disgracing community expectations on ubiquitous tweets. I’m glad you “readers” still find my blog site interesting and continue to visit. After all, it’s not a static site. New content is being added even when I’m not writing.
So in this post, I’m filling in the gaps with a “Last Few Months In Review” bit. Here is what you’ve missed, in reverse chronology: Read more
