Brooke graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Technical Management.
She’s thinking about getting her PMP.
Brooke got a new Honda CR-V with all wheel drive so no more getting stuck in the snow.
Brooke turned 27 or so and I think each one is getting a little harder to admit to.

Mark is still in school with four more classes to go.
He took the fall semester off and if Brooke wouldn’t make him do it, he’d never go back to school as it’s a waste of his time in his opinion.
He’s been busy helping Mike with race4myplace.com, working on his own creation crowdrent.com, talking about continued help with gauto.com, coming up with new ideas.
Mark got a Honda Civic which is affectionately known as the vomit comet since Max gets car sick and it’s not all wheel drive so it should be a fun winter.
Mark is officially a full-time teleworker so we’ll see how that goes.
Mark turned 31 and really couldn’t care less.  I think 31 was harder than 30.
Crowd Rent did it’s first transaction and I made my first three dollars in business.  Doesn’t make me rich, just happy.
Mark is a serial “wantrepreneur“  but has yet to quit his job and make a fortune on any of the many ideas floating around his head.

Our puppies are a year old and entertaining as always.
We still live in the same house now just passing the two year mark.  Longest I’ve ever lived in one spot since I’ve lived on my own.
Our company, CH2M Hill sold our division, EMS, to Golden Gate Capital and we’re now called Critigen.
We’re going to the southern Caribbean this winter for a week.

Oh, and it’s winter again.  It has snowed, it’s been literally freezing, never over 32F/0C all day yesterday, lather, rinse, repeat.

While she’s working 12 hour days at odd hours I’m doing a project for CS 414.  It’s your basic OO design project making a parking garage but it is frustrating given the scope of some of the software I’ve worked with in the past.  Me and my team waited until the last minute to do it of course.  We’re almost done but I’ve been up til 12, 1, and 2 am.  This morning Brooke and I passed each other.  She was on her way out, and I was about to go to bed.  It turned out I went to bed an hour later and couldn’t fall right to sleep.  There is nothing more frustrating than being exhausted and not being able to sleep.  Nature, with the assistance of Benadryl took it’s course but it was nearly 3 am.  And I was up at 8 to start working.  Luckily I worked from home today so I never had to get out dressed and go anywhere.

Now I find out Brooke might have to work the same early shift on Friday too and I have CS 475 homework due on Sunday.  This will take up my entire weekend like it did last weekend.  We’re parallelizing a ton of different problems.  Don’t worry they tell us, this one is easy.  The previous MPI programs were much easier than these.  This class is the most disorganized and frustrating I’ve taken so far in the M.C.S. program at CSU.  One cool thing though is the Mandelbrot set program generated this cool looking image. Oh, and Brooke as always, is powering through her classes while working crazy hours and possibly 60 hours this week.  I don’t know how she does it but she’ll be done here soon.