I was able to get some rest this morning before I went a good 6.5 mile walk. It is a interesting walk, because it goes through 2 hospital areas, 1 college and lots of beautiful homes, huge! With lots greenery, trees, flowers, and other garden variety of plants.

I do like the walk, to me it is better than doing cardio, a lot fresher, and more enjoyable. I probably will feel it in the morning.

Then back to the hotel to work on my essay, I have gotten a fair amount done, I am going to work on it some more later before I have to sleep.

I did find out that I got a 4.0 out of 4.0 on the essay I just turned in, which was actually the 4th essay. But I am happy that it turned out well. I feel that I will have this essay done by Thursday.

Time to sign off.

After getting here this morning from Charlotte, North Carolina which was about 10.30 a.m. I went over to the coffee shop to sit and study, since I really have no were else to go.

I fist stop and got my bebe washed, my truck has been very good to me so I am trying to take care of her.

I was getting so tired at the coffee shop,that I was falling asleep while I was reading again, this is becoming such a drag. 3 cups of coffee and I am still tired and could fall asleep at any time.

I stayed until after 4:00 p.m. reading about ESO (stock options) some is starting to sink in thank god. But I have lots more to read for the essays. But I am feeling better about them.

I left to go by a friends restaurant FnB, but he was closed today, I have to say that he made it into the New York Times Sunday Edition, Business section.

Everybody:  A Balance Between the Factory and the Local Farm , great article on Pavle, and my hats off to him for serving only Arizona wines at his restaurant, which by the way is in Old Town, Scottsdale. It is a great restaurant with good food and a great host and an excellent chef.

You really should stop in.

After finding that he has taken Mondays off (which is a good thing he works to much) I came back to my friends house, she wasn’t here so I decided to go for a walk, a 3 mile walk which took me about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Not bad I guess, but I know that I needed the exercise. I have to get back into it.

Then I just waited til my friend showed up at her home. So that was my 11 hours of killing time with no where to really go.

That is why I feel home lost. It really is not a comfortable feeling.

So tomorrow I have HR 4, noon till 5:00 p.m. sitting at the airport, which the only thing they can use me for is boarding planes or a turn. Maybe I’ll get to go home at 5, one never knows.

See you tomorrow at the airport.

What a joke. That our schedulers have no clue. If I had been on Stand-by C, scheduling would have to give me Stand-by C again but because they switched me to Hot Reserve at the airport I now can work 10 hours after my shift.

So again planning on having time for today and tomorrow for studying is shot.

So I am not going to be working on my 3 days off I need to get this studying/class finished. I can’t let them win. I have to be the winner in June when I finish my MBA.

CNN again had an article The 100 best companies to work for in 2010, I like reading those because it gives me ideas of what to shoot for when I start applying for jobs. SAS took the #1 position this year and it looks like a great company, to me the most impressive thing is not that it has been in One of the Best Companies for 13 years it is that Dr Jim Goodnight has been it’s only CEO in SAS 34 year history.

Having one CEO doesn’t always work, but there have been companies that have one CEO who impact has had a lasting impression. I really think that these CEO’s have a firm grasp of what it takes to run a company, it’s employees.

Take care of your number one asset “employees” and they will in turn take care of your business.

There are some CEO that don’t get that and only take care of the shareholders, which of course you should pay attention to them.

There are 3 pieces to a company, Employees, Customers and Shareholders take aways any one of these and the company becomes non-extistanct. Treat any one of these without respect to its relative part, the company starts to wither away. Treat any two of these without respect to its relative part in the company and it ceases to be a company.

After 3 cups of coffee and writing here at Winfield’s I have to get some reading done.

Well I have been here at the airport over 4 hours and have a 1.5 hours left. It really is a hard place to be, always busy and noisy with flight attendants talking about everything under the sun.

So studying is always not an option which is more my problem because I need quiet time to study. When to much is going on, mostly talking I have a hard time concentrating.

I spend my time reading, looking up things and talking to people I haven’t seen in awhile.

I also hope that I don’t get used tomorrow but one never knows around here.

I have only had 1 day off this month, actually I have only 1 day off since the 25th of December and I pretty much worked the whole of December.

I AM TIRED, exhausted.

I studied yesterday in Maui, but only got a few hours in, today I just haven’t been able to concentrate. I got everything else done so tomorrow all I have to do is exercise, study and iron my shirt.

I feel bad because I haven’t even had the energy to write here on the blog it has been 6 days since my last entry and I didn’t even finish it.

I know life happens but I am having to work too much to compensate and that is wearing on me and cutting into my study time.

I have been trying to keep up with the news that has been going on and before I go on

Please go to the

American Red Cross to donate the Hati Relief Fund

They need our donations, and prayers.

It has been a big week for the American Automotive industry, this is the opening of the North American International Auto Show, I was hoping to be there but I decided to work instead, I have to friends that work in the industry. One at GM the other at Chrysler’s I wish them the best we need to be back on top of this industry.

I was reading in Business Week magazine edition about how some of the for profit school are going after the military members, giving them degrees according to the article that are not quite up to standards for better job placement.

It is all about the business of making money not the business of education. Seems that is always the deal, money.

Though I have always said it is what you get out of the education that matters, but the schools have to have meat and potatoes (good curriculum) for you to be able to learn.

I am going to sleep so I can get up early tomorrow, exercise and study then a little nap  before flying the redeye San Francisco to Charlotte.

I was very tired having been up all day with only a few hours of sleep, then had to fly all night. So today is a limbo day, since you need to sleep twice in the same day.

After exercising and breakfast I went for a walk stopping by Target and Trader Joe’s to do some food shopping and have a nice healthy lunch. It is funny how the temperature has dropped, at the hotel in Charlotte right now it is 35F outside. Guess what I don’t need a refrigerator for any of the food I brought.

It is a New Year with new ideas, new dreams and new classes, which I have 5 left. So now even though I don’t have much time I have now no choice in getting theses classes finished.

I have been behind, for no other reason than it has been difficult since everyday has been a guess at where I am going to be, how much time will I have or where can I do it.

So now I need a plan, because I have to work extra this month, (at least some of the time I will know what my schedule is). This is going to be a bigger challenge than in the past.

Accounting is a butt kicker, but let see who kicks harder.

As for work, there have been many sick calls, causing cancelation across the system plus having a limited amount of reserves to cover flight makes for tough times. Plus I have heard pilots from the other half of our airline are doing something they have had more cancelations than our side.

So it will be interesting to see what happens with our trips in the morning. For me (even though I feel for the passengers) staying here the whole day would really really help studying.

I did not even get to read the Wall Street Journal, but I have it for later.

So I need to repack, get ready for tomorrow festivities.