Friday, April 25, 2014

Die With Your Boots On




You ever get a weird feeling someone you know is in distress or something bad happened to them? That's how I felt on this day. 

Typically, I turned on the TV to watch the morning news to see how the traffic is. On this day, I was headed out of town to visit my aunt in Virginia, but early in the morning, there was a multiple car crash on the 5 Northbound near where I live. Later I come to find out that two of the people who died were former co-workers from Deutsche Bank 

Friends described the fact that Sherry must have been driving and her car clipped a parked car on the left sitting near the HOV lane and then ricochetted off of the concrete barrier on the right like a pinball would then flung left back into traffic hitting another car. Clip-pow-pow. Just like that. Gone.

I went to their funeral after I got back from vacationing in Virginia. A lot of people from work went to the funeral. I think the family was kind of in awe to see so many showed up. I think they worked there for over 10 years, so you've had an opportunity to make an impact in that amount of time, you know?

I titled this blog entry "Die With Your Boots On" because Andrew sometimes came to work with black cowboy boots on.

RIP Andrew Hays 04/25/2014.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

In The News: Lots of Retirement Information

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-key-to-happiness-in-retirement/

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/3-ways-to-save-more-money-2014-04-18?siteid=yhoof2

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-ways-run-money-retirement-135956313.html;_ylt=AwrTWVW8EVNTRxsApxCTmYlQ

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlaura/2014/04/15/7-life-hacks-for-retirement/?ss=retirement

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-us-gets-no-medals-for-retirement/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-free-online-retirement-planning-guide/



Thursday, April 3, 2014

Perspective

At work, many of us have gone through Oz Principle training, myself included, and its true what they say how personal perspective colors our communications with others. I just experienced one of those ah ha moments with one of my cousins after I posted I was at urgent care for a swollen ear. She said it might be a sinus infection, and I commented back to say, I didn't know there was a sinus tract in my ear. Turns out she takes Sudafed to clear her sinus infection which was also bothering her ears. The only problem is, my nose is clear, but nice try by the Walmart pharmacy tech of the family.