Happy New Year 2009

Wow, 2009. I remember when Prince sung about partying like it was 1999. We're ten years past that now. Party like it's 2009?I know a lot of people are hung over coming out of 2008 with the financial crisis, recession, presidential election and now war between Israel and Hamas. I believe that things will get better though.

The U.S. is still at war (or something between war and nation building) in Iraq and Afghanistan. Major media doesn't write about Iraq much anymore. That's been my signal that things are going much better over there. I recently saw a documentary about Afghanistan that showed what the U.S. Special Forces are doing over there. It's a very dangerous situation in Afghanistan. Getting fully engaged there would be a mistake because the terrorists could fight a long, protracted war of attrition out of those mountains. My best to our forces fighting the good (and sadly forgotten) fight in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'm looking forward to continuing my MBA education in 2009. I found it difficult going to classes at night while working this past fall. I got through it though with an A and A- in my two classes. I'm forging ahead with two more classes in the spring with a goal of completing my MBA at the end of 2010 or mid-2011 at latest. Jeez, 2011. I can't even begin to think about it.

The family is doing well. We're healthy. The girls (Mia and Rosetta) are growing. Juliet is working hard to handle two little ones. Mia goes to school three days a week for half a day while Juliet's Mom and Aunt have contributed a lot to help around our new house.