Welcome aboard, Dean Domenico!

Thanks for jumping on board, Dom. It's good to hear from you in the Great White North. I look forward to your posts (and feel free to put some links on the sidebar if you like). Now that you're a dean, you should have time to log on now and then. I am really happy to learn of your success, and it's certainly well deserved, as you've worked hard (a 25 page vita- cut it out!) and done great. I used to wonder what it would be like seeing those that I may have outperformed (in my own mind) in high school and college whizz by me in their careers and salaries. I've found that while I'm probably still competitive in my own way, it's not that way, and I am genuinely happy to see friends and family succeed (and don't particularly care about the others). And more important than career, you've got a great family (though I personally believe Sue may have married too far down- my best to her and the kids, of course). It actually feels really good to see those I care about doing well. Another sign of advancing age.

We'll See What Happens

Thanks for checking this out. My initial thought is to use this venue as a mechanism to reestablish or increase contact with a few people who have meant a great deal to me but have drifted apart. Maybe this will morph into something else, or just fade into oblivion, but what I envision is a simple way for my old and dear friends to keep in touch regularly. It's impossible to write, visit, or call, it seems, and even tough to email. Rather than simply make this a lazy man's (that would be me) letter to all (which does have some appeal), I hope that this can become a "team" blog, where each post essentially goes to everyone in the group (individual contact options remain, of course), as this would essentially be a message board.

So Rick, Kip, Dom, and Greg, please provide a response regarding your thoughts on this venture. If you think this is stupid, no harm done and it's easy to pull the plug. If you'd like to give it a try, just let me know. I'll need your email (see contact information on side bar if you don't want to give it in a response post), and I'm not sure if you have to register with blogger.com (which takes two minutes and I haven't gotten any spam or had any other problems in doing so). Then I can add you to the "blog team." If you prefer to just read the posts and respond via comments, that's fine too. Or maybe you'd like this to be something else. I hope this can go somewhere, but we'll see what happens.