Rode the Pig Bike to work today, 9th time this month. I figure I only need to ride two more days in the next week to be able to say I rode to work for half of my commutes in April.
Neil, if you're still reading this, I'll be ready for the 62 miler on Sunday.
Lots and lots of stuff to write about, but I've been too lazy to set fingers to keyboard. Lesseee.... Both 'Nika and The Madster were granted transfers to Seward Montessori in the Minneapolis Public Schools. This is good news, but we're still probably going to send 'Nika to Minnehaha Academy, which I'm ambivalent about. Bottom line - TOYH and I think she would really benefit from the more individualized attention she'll (hopefully) get at M.A.
Minneapolis Public Schools are re-vamping the H.S. programs to try and encourage students to attend their area H.S. KyKy and Madster have a mutual friend from Emerson who is very bright, but unable to get into South High next year. She'll probably end up at Roosevelt, which would be our neighborhood school also. We know very little about Roosevelt, other than it's Jesse Ventura's alma mater (which is a strike against it). We are very pleased with Southwest and KyKy would be allowed to stay there. Rumor has it that sibling preference is still policy, so if Madster wants to go to SW she'll be able to go there. Ahhh rubbing elbows with all those cake-eaters makes me feel all warm inside. Speaking of Southwest, KyKy is heading to Chicago on Thursday by train with the SW Orchestra. 4 fun filled days of concerts, sight seeing and train rides.
I've been in talks with Jamie at Sunrise Cyclery about future employment. Turns out my core competencies align well with the operational deficits to create value-added synergies which in turn would lead to a marginal increase in the bottom line - in certain projections. I'm having my people (Kent) look at some numbers to get a handle on the financial end of things. I'm cautiously optimistic about making this work. There are still a huge number of unknowns at this time, and we're slowly starting to work through them. Jamie's wife Jen is a lawyer who has set up businesses before, which is a huge help. As much as I would love to go into business with them on a handshake, I'd feel much better about signing a business pre-nuptial. We're still in the dating phase right now.
TOYH is still working away at People Inc. Unfortunately, she still isn't up to full time hours yet. They are still dealing with some staffing issues. Hopefully sometime in the next few weeks we'll have a better idea of what her full time work week will look like. Her working only part time has been a mixed blessing. Lord knows we need the money. Bad. On the other hand after 3 1/2 years of an absolutely full schedule of school and work, this bit of a break is really, really nice. We actually get to see each other in the evenings. I can't tell you how nice that is.
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