Men's Fraternity Comes to a Close

For the past 24 weeks, I've been a part of a great men's group. Men's Fraternity has been meeting each Wednesday morning at 6:00am, and I gotta say that I've learned a lot about authentic manhood. Today was the graduation ceremony for those men that created a manhood plan. The process provided great insight to my own past, present, and what I hope to make my future. I've learned that my biggest struggle as a man is that I do not reject passivity in all situations. I know that I need to step up and be a responsible leader of my home, and this is something I'm glad I heard before children come into our family. Men's Fraternity is something I highly recommend to ANY man. Period. If you have the opportunity to participate in this group, do it! You won't be disappointed.

One bummer from this week is that I did not get an offer for the other job position. It ended up going to someone internal to the department. However, the hiring manager wants to meet with me again to discuss other/future opportunities, so maybe something will work out in the end. For now, it looks like God has plans for me right where I am (I get to practice "being all here"). Continuing in my systems engineering role includes a trip to Singapore this July, about which I have mixed feelings. It will be fun, but I don't like the idea of travelling to the other side of the world when Heather is eight months pregnant! I just pray that Junior doesn't decide to show up a month early. Robocop, if you have internet access in there, listen up! I know you've been growing for over 17 weeks now, but please keep hanging out until August, mmkay? Yes, it's probably pretty boring just sitting around for so long, but you have the rest of your life to be out here!

To wrap things up, the obligatory end-of-my-MBA countdown: 33 days 'til my last class!