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Wassup!!! [revisited]
Just came across this in catching up on TechCrunch posts. Pretty funny revisiting of characters from the old Budweiser commercials from 1999-2002 … eight years later.
What a headline!
That’s from the homepage of www.nytimes.com right now. What’s the most impressive, not the “OBAMA” line. To me the most important is “Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout”. One of the most proud moments I’ve had in my 31 years. Proud of our country.
Thanks to all who voted. Remember this feeling, what it’s like to play a part in the process. No matter if your choice is victorious or not, it’s PARTICIPATING that’s the key.
And thanks to everyone who finally was able to put the “race card” back in the deck with all the other issues. Especially after living in the South for nearly a decade, it puts a big smile on my face to see Virginia and (at this point in the evening, possibly) North Carolina vote for an African American for the highest office in the land.
As John McCain is saying right now in his concession, let’s all “find ways to come together” to help restore our prosperity, enhance our security, and make this country a better place. “We are all fellow Americans.”
Congratulations America. Job well done.
College is finally over
My wife informed me a couple days ago that my final college loan payment was made a few weeks ago, and we just received an official letter stating the loan is paid off and closed. Wow. At 32 years old I’m finally done with college!
It’s nice to have that paid off, but at the same time it was kind of my last connection with being a decade younger than I am now. 🙂
My career seems to be taking me in a more technical direction than I once hoped, and where I used to think that getting my Masters some day was good goal, now I’m not so sure. Sure I could be wrong, but at this point I don’t really see a big benefit.
So here’s to the good old days of just worrying about making it to classes and determining the best strategy for winning a game of Spades at 3am. But at the time, here’s to having a few glasses of a nice merlot while answering the door on Halloween while my wife and daughter are out raking in the goods!
Of course I just thought of another interesting tidbit: I’ve come full circle. When I was in college I thought it would be the coolest thing to work at Microsoft, but knew it was pretty darn hard to get hired there. In the last 10 years I’ve done a lot, and even reached the point where I thought Microsoft wouldn’t be the right place for me. Today I can’t think of anywhere else, or another team I’d rather work on than Messenger Ops at Microsoft.
That deserves another glass of merlot.
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