Hiking in Pomo Canyon
Sara and I bushwhacked up a rocky riverbed in Pomo Canyon near Hwy 1. Beautiful trees and a great camping spot. We're coming back with tents for sure.
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Advice for new motorcycle riders: Get a Ninja 250 and look where you want to go!
Get a bike that's been dropped once or twice, has cosmetic dings, but doesn't have a lot of miles. If you get one with <2k miles, little the original owner could have done to it would be really bad. More mileage = more of a chance they never changed the oil. Don't spend a lot of money on your first bike.
Visiting our old family house in Sheffield, England
I was in the UK and Ireland on business and had a meeting with a lab manager at the University of Sheffield. When our family lived in England we lived in Sheffield! I swung by our old house and it's funny how much I remember.
Callen and Andre's wedding at Hans Fahden Vineyards in Calistoga
Callen and Andre were married in a beautiful ceremony at a wonderful vineyard on July 3rd.
Jeff and Sheryl's wedding at the Bodega Bay Yacht Club
Jeff and Sheryl were married June 27th at the Bodega Bay Yacht Club.
New York family vacation
My family has suddenly discovered that vacations are fun. It all started with a two week vacation in Italy for John's 60th in April 2008. I met Bekks and John in Brussels on business in September, then Ben + Allison and Joe flew out to California for Christmas and New Years. Who knew traveling was so cool?
1/4 done! My third quarter at UC Davis’ Bay Area Working Professional MBA program
January 2009 brought the third quarter of UC Davis' WP-MBA program. This is the last quarter of non-elective 'core' classes our group will take together, after which we will theoretically go our own way and choose classes based on our own unique interests. We all took Marketing Management and Corporate Finance.
Short notes: Christian V came back to join the cool kids in the slacker class schedule (harder course taken later in the evening). He reports that the Others do indeed suck. We went to Vegas (my first time) in May. Coursework was really overwhelming, it was tough to keep up. I lost my 4.0 GPA with an A- in Corporate Finance. I'm a little bummed.
Next quarter I'm taking Statistics 2 with Rahman Azari and Product Management with Britta Foster, followed by almost four weeks off in September! It'll be nice to get a break.
UC Davis MBA course review: MGB204A Marketing Management with Jenni Smith
UC Davis Working Professional (Bay Area) MBA course review
MGB 204A: Marketing Management with Jenni Smith
UC Davis MBA course review: MGB205A Financial Theory and Policy with Brad Barber
UC Davis Working Professional (Bay Area) MBA course review
MGB 205A: Financial Theory and Policy with Brad Barber
Audience question: UC Davis Working Professional MBA program
I remember two years ago when I started looking for information about part-time MBA programs in the SF bay area I was totally overwhelmed. There are a lot of schools in the area and I had no idea which ones were good. I didn't even understand the difference between a UC school and a private school!