Sunday, February 07/16
Today's musical recommendation is "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic
Apologies for failing to follow up with the blog teaser and actually posting the entries but my mood turned a bit and I decided to head over to the gym and treadmill myself into exhaustion so as to not let the mood come out in the blog. See I do think about the followers now and than, trying my best to keep the sadness I feel out of your reading enjoyment ;-)
So as I mentioned yesterday the week has been a bit crazy with both good and bad so before I go off tangent like I've been known to do lets get to it..........
The bad was work related and not horribly bad but does has some implications for how the upcoming integration turns out. My boss called me at home on Wednesday as we were both working from home due to the freezing rain and advised me she had given her notice and would be around through the 12th and then off to her new position. So in the matter of two weeks we've seen the company bought by another and the key person required to make the integration go as smoothly as possible, well as smoothly as these things go, give notice to leave before the deal has even closed. It bothered me for a bit but in the end might work out to my advantage as even though I've been around the least amount of time of anyone in the group I've literally got the most experience and my responsibilities transcend every role within the group making me the most diverse and able to handle changes.
The good was two-fold. The first part was getting my mortgage renewed early in order to lock in a lower rate and reducing my monthly payment. I thought about leaving the payment at the same amount but decided to play it safe. I did move the payment from monthly to semi-monthly in order to equalize my payments across the month and flirted with going to weekly but in the end went as I did with the option to move to weekly when this two year mortgage comes up for renewal in February 2018. My goal is to bank that monthly savings and make it part of my "London" fund I've set up for my son and I to go to London for March break next year. We've talked about it and both are kind of excited to see London and take in a football game or two while there. The nice thing is there are currently 14 professional teams playing in London at this moment with 5 in the Premier League and the other 9 in the Football League that houses the Champions and Leagues 1 & 2.
The second part was having a long conference call late Friday afternoon with the person who looks to be my primary contact at the new company and hearing the projected transition plan. That was good to do but the kicker was hearing what my boss had told her about me and how she really is going to need my skills to make this work, even more so now that my boss is leaving. It sounds like a trip down to San Francisco might be in the future and that might mean some golf as well, you didn't think that wouldn't cross my mind did you? Silly reader.......
On the family front, the new semester started for my son and it looks like he has a good group of teachers, least none had him mumbling about attitude yet, and the daughters new home is coming along well, I ended up driving by after my session at Movati yesterday to take some pictures to share with family and friend on FB.
All in all an eventful week but in the end one I can live with.
Marcus
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