Football Epilogue

 I'm relaxing in a Chicago hotel room waiting for both the Minnesota Vikings to start playing and for my daughter to emerge from one of what might be the best nights of her teenage life. The two of us ventured here to witness the spectacle that is Harry Styles. The original plan, still intact, is to attend his concert tonight, October 9th. We have tickets and are all ready to go.  However, in preparation for our travels I was informed that she'd like to try to find tickets for the Saturday night show as well and that she was willing to pay for them. So we headed down to the arena and found the ticket window line to stand in. Just like hazy memories of an old movie or two that I could never remember, the ticket window curtains closed, SOLD OUT, with about a dozen people to go before us. Maybe 30 tickets out of 30,000 short.  Defeated and hungry we went to find a little food and see if there was an online resale option that would work. There's a place on the corner from the...

It's been a crazy couple of months with the mix of taking on a new job and coaching football. So far I'm enjoying both. I'm admittedly liking the latter a more than the former but that's what things you have a passion for are supposed to be, right? For the new job, I am missing being more deeply involved in technical work; particularly with the magnetic materials that have made the majority of my career. I also get the "saying goodbye" pangs that involve leaving a community behind. Still, the new job has some interesting aspects. I get to apply knowledge of microelectronics manufacturing to a new area of technology while honing my project and people managing skills. And there are opportunities to contribute to the technical work, but the level of engagement depends on my bandwidth, of which there is very little. One enjoyment of the previous gig was the ability to travel for conferences, trade shows, customer visits, etc. Granted some of the locations were not...