Category: From the Mind of Brian

  • Gainfully Unemployed

    The past week has been a bit odd for me, since it’s the first time in 15 years that I’ve been unemployed. It’s a temporary condition until I start at Intel on Monday, but I have avoided being a slacker during my “week off”. The goal this week has been forward momentum, making as much…

  • Leveling Up

    Leveling Up

    So after fifteen years at the same company, here’s a phrase I didn’t expect to be uttering anytime soon … Friday is my last day at AMI.

  • Eighteen

    May 1, 1993 is when I met Suzan Leigh Martin … the woman I married almost fifteen years ago. As of yesterday, we have been together 18 years. Suzan has changed my life in so many ways. Falling in love with her changed more than my marital status. Suzan has impacted the way I think…

  • Making it your own

    Travel the world long enough and patters emerge between cultures. One example of this is graffiti.

  • Equinox

    Yep, it’s another trip around the sun. Today is my birthday, coming on the first day of spring. Time to see what spring brings to my life after thirty nine years.

  • Cock-a-doodle-don’t

    Some people play FARMVILLE … I actually have a farm. The time my wife spends on real chickens gets me real eggs. This, of course, has some practical downsides …