Getting My MBA at 48

A New Month with another essay sent

Today is a new month, scary since the days are coming quicker to an end of this class and nearer to the time of graduation at Western Governors University.

First off let me say that I am behind of where I wanted to be, so I need to be able to make up some time somewhere guess I need to learn how to bend time. A dream would be able to take the whole month let say April and just sit here and study. No distractions from work, flying, passengers, or the long hours of commuting.

If I could have the whole month, I would be done easily with classes by June. But sadly unless something changes I have to work because like most everyone else I need money to survive.

If there are any suggestions out in the world wide web send them my way.

I did manage to finish the Task 2 essay and spreadsheet, found a few mistakes tonight so hopefully all will be well with my submission.

The next 2 essay are on ETHICS, always a good topic yet unlike all the other essays there is no page requirements, curious maybe that has to do with ethical practice to see how many pages you submit.

Out of the next 9 days I have a 4 day trip, 1 reserve day and 3 days off then the last day which is the 10th of March. Gotta love the pressure, NOT!

This trip that scheduling gave me is not going to be a fun trip, it is an older 737 everyday and working all 4 days. The layovers are not bad, no long 24 breaks but I am still looking at only 5 to 6 hours sleep on each of them.

Houston, Texas, Spokane, Washington and back to Houston, at least it is cities that I have not been to in awhile. Not that I will be able to peruse the cities as my nose will be in the books and my butt on the aerobic bicycle.

I find it interesting that I can sit here all day studying and not miss the television, even though most times it is on I am doing something else as it is just background mumbo-jumbo.

I have had my music on all day, I had gotten froggy one day awhile ago and fixed up an G4 Apple desktop computer with a 22-inch flat screen and put all my music on it. 5804 songs and a few movies, though I love my old Technique stereo, this is much more fun. It does use the stereo to play the music I just don’t have to get up and change the music since there is enough music for days, 17.2 days to be exact. And trust me I have it backed up on more than one hard drive to much work to replace, or redo it all.

As this is a new month I thought I would talk about my blog for a minute, for January I had 191 unique visitors and 1263 page visits and for February 175 unique visitors and 1135 page visits each month an average of over 40.54 visits per day.

I’m getting famous, haha.

Yes, I know this is not much in the scheme of things but to me its cool, it also looks like I have quite a few people who have bookmarked me in their browsers or by way of email.

Another cool thing is I have made over $14, which is great but I don’t receive any of it till it reaches a $100. Just the way Google operates. Anyway it is still all fun, and just like the classes I am taking, exercising or studying, writing for this blog takes planning and discipline.

All great lessons for a better me.

I haven’t been posting to my blog at Business Week, so much to do and learn. I have ideas for iPad apps, but until I get past this class, Accounting and get to where I feel comfortable that will have to wait.

I am hoping Santa will visit me when the iPads becomes available, I am looking forward to having one for reading books, my arms and back will be happy to since I will be carrying a lot less weight. Plus the ability to email or write notes where it isn’t convenient to open my MacBook Pro.

It is getting Oh dark 30 and I need to finish up things here in the house and be ready for my commute tomorrow, in addition to my 3 hour airport appreciation.

All total tomorrow I will fly from San Francisco to Phoenix to Houston and it will cost me in 14 hours total.

Ok I need to go… see you later

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Day 3, EBay

These are short post to inform of things that I have done.

I got tired of listening to the Skillsoft lessons so I listed some of my older computer parts on Ebay to see if I could sell them and make a few dollars.

Actually it is a learning experience, what to write, how to sell, and the ins and outs of Ebay.

I hope I do well

Tags: apple, apple computers, Ebay, old apple computer parts

New Thought Process

I rested last night, and got some great sleep. It is amazing what a good night sleep will do to you.

Got up this morning went and got the tire on Mari’s car fixed, Discount Tire/American Tire in California is by far the best tire store. They fixed the car tire for FREE, yes thats right FREE. Nobody does that any more.

I will always buy my tires from them, my truck got it new shoes from there, and with the warranty they will fix replace and rotate my tires for FREE for the life of the tires. So please visit them if you need tires.

Started my morning off great. Changing my thoughts, attitude and direction of my life.

After I took a drive to a place that fixed Apple computers, they told me of a place that had old computers and weird things, WeirdStuff. Amazing, I really have never seen so much stuff , I got lost in that building.

After wandering, I found things but I refrained from buying too many things. But I did find a Technics CD player that match my other Technics equipment;

Compact Disc Player SL-P220 (found)

Automatic Turntable System SL-BD22

Stereo Integrated Amplifier SU-V85A

Auto Reverse Double Cassette Deck RS-T330R

Quartz Synthesizer AM/FM Stereo Tuner ST-600

A complete set cool from the late 1980′s when Technics made great equipment, now I think Panasonic owns the brand. I starting digging in boxes of remotes hoping I might find the one that goes with the CD player. Got it at the bottom of one of the boxes, WOW. I also found a DVD Player for my old Apple G4 Tower that I have been looking for a long time.

Now both these items I have always wanted at the time when I brought the other items I wished that I could have brought them but could never afford them.

So with my mind in a better place, I brought into my existence things I have wanted, and better yet the CD player was $10 and the DVD for my computer $8. Now I am really amazed and so was my wallet.

But I have to say focus, intention has worked for me before, like this laptop, I really really wanted this one. I settled for another one but in the end I got the one I wanted by talking to Apple and clearly having in my mind what I wanted.

So I know that what I talked about yesterday can happen, I have to use my mind.

Now I am telling you all this because getting lost today, and things happening I feel great!!! Not at all stressed and tomorrow I will be studying moving forward with my life. I can’t wait to hit the books.

I need to make a list, a plan and look at it everyday. I know that my studying will go easy from now on because that is the way I want, not what others want for me.

Its late and I want another good night sleep.

Tags: american tire, apple computers, books, discount tire, life, macs, panasonic, studying, technics, thoughts