What I'm doing now

October 19, 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). Since the beginning of 2022, I have had a goal of reading 50 books in a calendar year. I am currently on pace to hit that goal in 2025... (currently at 47 completed)

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.

Earlier this year, I added writing poetry to my daily activities... Initially it was all 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 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.... I've recently found another style that fits my personality. I've found myself writing 'Two Word' poems, it's a style that forces me to limit each line to only, well, two words. This limitation helps me to trim out the fluff and focus on brevity. In fact, I really appreciate these form limitations (haiku, two word, even the sonnet) because they enable me to condense my topic to it's essence. (hmm, i have strayed away from this pursuit... time to make an effort to come back to it)

Mariah and I recently accomplished a few major financial goals, and took some time to discuss and celebrate with our children. We've since been putting more focus on some of our other financial goals that we had to sideline... I'm thinking about sharing them in detail on this site and elsewhere, but am not yet willing to commit. 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....

First life-improvement I'm willing to share: we've begun replacing the deck on our home. It's OVER 30 years old and desperately in need of repairs, so we decided to replace it with a bigger and (hopefully) better version. Have the frame built and laying deck boards... It's size, limited time and some delays have kept us form completing the project.

I have placed my ITSM coding project on hold... but on this rainy day, I came back to it. As the days get shorter I can see myself putting more of my time towards this endeavor. There has just been so many more important things for me to be doing this summer.

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.