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April 14, 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. 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 office... 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. It's been tax season and I have been working on that for the coffee shop...

Speaking of community growth, every Sunday morning, I facilitate the worship service at our growing church by working the soundboard. This is an ongoing learning experience for me as I stepped into the open role a couple years ago. I've since trained another sound engineer, and we are now learning together. The past several months, we've replaced the main speakers, added subwoofers, introduced new monitors, figured out the whole EQ thing, and added auxiliary speakers to the bathrooms/outdoors.

In my free time, I'm either spending time with my family, overhauling this website to expand my programming capabilities, or incrementally reading thru a book (I am still reading physical copies of "What Have we Here" by Billy Dee Williams and "Discourses" by Epictetus. I haven't had much time for these recently, but they have both inspired change in my life.)

I've recently added writing poetry to my daily activities... particularly Haiku. I wrote about this in my latest blog post. I've been participating in a "30 poems in 30 days" challenge I stumbled upon and that happened to startup a few days after I began writing haiku. Half-way thru and I haven't missed a day yet. Hopefully I catch the habit, because I am enjoying taking the time to look for, meditate on, and capture a moment from each day. It's a challenge that is forcing me to slow down without feeling wasteful of my time.

February 23, 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. I work an hour away from my office... so during my commute I listen to 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.

Speaking of community growth, every Sunday morning, I facilitate the worship service at our growing church by working the soundboard. This is an ongoing learning experience for me as I stepped into the open role a couple years ago. I've since trained another sound engineer, and we are now learning together. The past several months, we've replaced the main speakers, added subwoofers, introduced new monitors, figured out the whole EQ thing, and added auxiliary speakers to the bathrooms/outdoors.

In my free time, I'm either spending time with my family, overhauling this website to expand my programming capabilities, learning how to touch type, or incrementally reading thru a book (currently reading physical copies of "What Have we Here" by Billy Dee Williams and "Discourses" by Epictetus).