I know this is the most boring of posts. Even worse than those tweets describing in 140 characters of detail an errand that someone is running on their way home from work. But I am just SO excited. My fantasy football squad is SICK. Brian Hege and gang, just ship me the chips now.
QB – McNabb, Garrard
RB – Ray Rice, Matt Forte, Darren McFadden
WR – Larry Fitzgerald, Sidney Rice, Wes Welker, Steve Breaston, Anthony Gonzalez, Golden Tate, Arrelious Benn
This is the card Carrie made me for my first Father’s Day. Sometimes I can’t believe how amazingly creative and thoughtful my wife is. If you can’t tell, it’s a mini flip-book, with the three photos staying the same and the “cardboard cutouts” changing.
Page 1 - the Near Future
Page 2 - The Distant Future
Page 3 - Today!
Fred Wilson wrote about being present today and it really resonated with me, as I embark on my first real “career”:
I attended an offsite of a larger private equity firm and there was a organizational psychologist who gave a talk on work life balance. He said something I’ll never forget. He said that you have about ten to twelve years to connect with your kids and then they turn into teenagers, tune you out, then turn into adults and build their own lives. I thought about my kids who were five, three, and a baby and realized that time was short and I needed to be present in their lives in every way that I could.
So, in case Carrie didn’t think I noticed (wink), I will leave Foursquare at home when we have brunch this morning.
I read this on a Southwest flight from Seattle to Los Angeles:
“A while ago,” he said, “I thought, People go to school and study hard to get good grades so they can get into college. They go to college and study hard so they can get good grades so they can get a good job. They get a job and work really hard so they can make money to buy the things they think will make them happy. I decided, if all this is about getting happy, I can take a short cut. I can be happy right now.”
