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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Yeah, 1 essay complete

Yes, I know I have been sitting here for 2 day studying and I should have wrote something yesterday informing all my fans of my pain/pleasure.

Yesterday, I must have read through 300 pages of downloads concerning ESO (employee stock options), footnote disclosure verse financial recognition, and why companies like to give stock options as forms of compensation. My head was swimming is an accountants nightmare.

But I mustered up finished those plus a few other chores that need to get done, you know life still goes on. Just because I am in school, life  doesn’t stop though I would like it to. So I ended up getting to sleep around 2:00 a.m.

You would think that I would be able to crank out these essays, the great writer that I am. I have been working all day, well not quite I have taken time for chores, a nice afternoon walk (to clear my head) and food of course (fuel for the brain).

It is after 11:00 p.m. and the first essay complete, but I will wait till the morning to submit it, I like to have down time, to read it one last time for corrections before sending it off. I have learned that staring at something for hours upon hours, everything blends. Downtime, away from the essay give my brain time to process what I have been writing and to see any mistakes.

But I am happy I just need all day tomorrow, to finish the next essay I am hoping scheduling just assigns me a evening 4 day trip on Saturday.

So me, my trusty MacBook Pro and my endless music can crank out another essay.

Needless to say I still have chore left to do tonight, and many in the morning in preparation for leaving to commute into Phoenix. If I have to go in I am not going till the 3:35 p.m. of the 5:15 p.m. flight, I already have enough stress trying to invade my life I don’t need self inflicted stress too.

Tonight I met a fellow WGU student Lee, actually him found me through the web, a MBA student also a class behind me, but none the less someone with the same dreams. Finish your MBA, at the same time that you are working a full-time job.

I wish him the best, and hope to say in touch.

So I am getting tired and have many things I need to finish, tonight and tomorrow.

I will talk with you in a few hours let see what LUCK the White Tiger brings me.

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Stormy day in San Francisco, Airport delays

It has been storming all day here in San Francisco, so the airport has had ATC delays all day. Which is a good thing today, the storm at times here has been has been pretty intense.

I have spent the morning doing the finishing touches on my packing and studying. I had to take a break from reading about Accounting, one to let it sink in too because of the weather here I have a headache all day.

As for the Accounting, I think I will be able to get the first draft of the essay done tomorrow. I am hoping that in the next 7 days I can have 3 of the essays done.

I know I won’t be able to get all the online work done by then but I need to have the essays in. I have to get back ahead.

So I will be able to pick up extra trips in February otherwise I will be behind in school and bills, not a good combination.

There is all this talk of a new iPhone and Tablet from Apple, for me I am on of the MacHeads, it is the only computer I have ever owned. So I am hoping that the Tablet comes out and is a eReader as well as many other things.

Carrying all these books gets heavy. The Accounting book by far is the heaviest it is about 3 inches thick and 10 lbs.

So I am hoping for a good cross functionality between my MacBook Pro, the iPhone and the New Tablet. We shall see on the 27th of January.

Time to run, so a parting shot of the Apple’s invitation

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