What I'm doing now

August 9, 2025

I am a full time Sr. Business Analyst at Charter Communications where I work as a subject matter expert in their internal ITSM tool. My team is actively migrating tools from Cherwell to Ivanti after their recent merger. I'm responsible for the conversion of over 4,000 processes. As I transition into an architectural role, I am actively making an effort to delegate and trust my team to accomplish the technical tasks that I have done in the past. I am steadily getting better at this, but letting go of all those challenging tasks is proving more difficult for me than I expected. Perhaps the most consistently productive aspect of my life is due to the fact that I work an hour away from my home... so during my commute I listen to a lot of audio books (see the books page for my recently read books).

I spend time at our family's Coffee House during the rush before work every week-day and all day every Saturday. I thoroughly enjoy the time I get to spend participating in the growth of our little community. There are a lot of moving parts behind the scenes. We recently purchased the building we operate from and that was a learning experience in and of itself. We're actually in the very early phases of our next business venture.

In my free time, I'm either spending time with my family, maintaining our farm, overhauling this website to expand my programming capabilities, or incrementally reading thru a book (I FINALLY finished reading "What Have we Here" by Billy Dee Williams)

Earlier this year, I added writing poetry to my daily activities... particularly Haiku. I wrote about this in a previous blog post. in April I participated in a "30 poems in 30 days" challenge I stumbled upon after I began writing haiku. I need to double down on building up this habit because I do enjoy taking the time to look for, meditate on, and capture a moment from my days. It's a practice that enables me to slow down without feeling wasteful of my time.... But I really didn't write much in July.

Mariah and I recently accomplished a major financial goal, and have been putting more focus on some of our other financial goals that we had to sideline... I'm not sure yet if I want to share them in detail in this site, but some are purely financial, some are more like life improvements... needless to say, we're making positive traction in ways that we are VERY exited about.... But this past few weeks we've also had some unexpected and expensive repairs pop up.

I have placed my ITSM coding project on hold... but plan to come back to it. There has just been too many more important things for me to be doing.

What is this?

This is my "Now" page. It contains a description of what I am doing "right now". I stumbled across the idea on Rico Trebeljahr's website and really liked the idea. Turns out this is part of the nownownow project by Derek Sivers I'll attempt to keep it updated regularly-ish.