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So, I made a circuit through Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The real purpose for making the tour was to attend the wedding of one of my very, very dear friends from college. I also had the opportunity to see many other dear friends as well that I haven't seen in quite some time. Naturally, there was a good degree of catching up to do on my end and theirs. The problem is that I really didn't think that I had a whole lot to show for myself.

My friends asked me what I was up to, and I love my friends too much to bore them with details about how I made a task scheduler that assigns an even distribution of work to about eighty people each day which saves the State of Colorado about $100,000 each year. I kind of just said that I was doing computer stuff and left it at that.

It seems that all of my friends have either gotten married, finished grad school or moved to a foreign country. I haven't done any of those things. I've talked about law school before. Still, I haven't done anything about it at all. I'm comfortable. I have my own place, and I eat well. What more do I need?

If I'm going to do this, I have to do it on an impulse. I had the pleasure of convincing one of my coworkers to quit her job to finish her bachelor's degree so that she can get ahead, but it really just happened on an impulse: she was having a bad day when I talked her into it. I need that impulse. I need to start taking this seriously.