A couple of articles have caught my attention recently and I feel like I have to remind myself, as well as others, that its ok to clock out.

You know, not work. Spend time with the family. Enjoy a walk in the woods. Bike down one of the many trails that I’m sure your community (and tax dollars) has created. Walk the dog, catch a film, grab a beer with a buddy. I could come up with thousands of things to do other than work.

I originally started writing this post almost 7 years ago. Times were simpler then. Just me, my wife, 1 year old son and the dog. The pooch is no longer with us, but two more littles have been added which makes this post a lot harder to imagine me of all people writing it.

But that’s just the point, if I can find the time to do this, what’s holding you back?

I’ve been blessed in my life to have some meager talents outside of my professional life. While I will never claim to be the greatest, I can sing and have been apart of some great ensembles.

Through music, I have been able to travel the world and touch peoples lives that didn’t know that they were missing something.

Music not only has taken me places physically, its taken me emotionally. I’ve always said, I can go blind and never see the world again. But take away my hearing, I’m a dead man.

After almost a decade of rocking a mac mini for my main home machine, I finally pulled the trigger on an upgrade. I’ve upgraded the mini with a few tweaks over the years such as more ram and a larger SSD to make it a decent machine, but the time had finally come.

Last fall, when rumors of a new iMac were floating around, I had some money set aside to pull the trigger when they were finally announced. Well, history will tell you that I had to wait. No announcement in October, none in November… December… and into early 2019 when the March event was announced and it also claimed there was going to be no new hardware at the event. Well, I was getting a little itchy running this mini with all of its flaws.

Earlier this year, I officially celebrated my 5 year Faceversary at Facebook. Its been a crazy ride and one that I am fortunate to be on. While there has been a lot of negative press about some of the mistakes the company has made over this time period, I’m still proud to call it home. For me, Facebook holds some more than a place where I get a pay check. This is a place where I make connections to people all around the world. The mission had always been one of those, of coarse we’re connecting people all around the world. But it really started to hit home for me with my post about The Ochos