GSB Mennonite

New Palm

I must admit, as a Treo 600 owner, that I am very excited to see the new Palm and Microsoft partnership.

New Classes

New year, new quarter, and new classes. Last Thursday was the first day of the fall quarter. I've got Entrepreneurial Finance with Kaplan, Negotiations with Fishbach, and LEAD LAB II. :)

Coursepacks once again are painful.

MBTI

Tomorrow is the big day for MBTI...looking forward to presenting the LEAD module for Rockefeller and Walker cohorts. Hope they enjoy it! :)

Chipotle

Finally, big thanks to Chipotle for being one of the sponsors this year of LOE at Chicago GSB. I had a barbacoa today over lunch with a friend. You guys are awesome.

LOE Part Three

For all of you who were there, I hope you got some rest this past weekend. For all of us that were also there...it was a great time and hopefully one that enabling the beginning of a lot of relationship building at the GSB.

We've got some great students this year and I look forward to spending a lot of time with my 5's. :)

Oh and good luck and have fun with Developing High Performance Teams on Tuesday or Wednesday!

Barn Update

While I was back in Goshen a couple weeks ago, I worked on the steps leading to the second floor/attic storage. Also, Dad made considerable progress over the fall/winter after I left. Note the final stages before first year last fall.

It now looks like this...with lots of growth from the garden and vegetation. :)

Weekend

It's good to be back in Chicago. We went back to Goshen for the weekend to see my sister, who is headed to Thailand for a while. Great to relax and enjoy some mom-cooked-food again.

On the way back to Chicago we survived a blown out rear tire - completely down to the rim by the time we got off the road. Pretty scary stuff. Caught a ride back to Chicago with my brother and sister-in-law because most tire places were closed on Labor Day.

Ready for the first day of LEAD tomorrow? ;)

Chopping Block

In my two and a half days off between the internship and LEAD Training Camp, I headed back to Indiana to visit my family. I continued helping with the barn project - we finished the stairs to the second floor (which had been pending the completion of the concrete). I will hopefully get an updated picture this weekend, since the siding was finished last fall.

Also, I worked on a hardwood chopping block, made with my bare hands...and a power saw and rotary sander. :) It has been treated with olive oil, to provide some water-resistance and to bring out the color of the wood. Notice the dark circular saw marks from the original log cutting. I used a picture with a AA battery to give a sense of size. Dimensions are 16.5 x 9.5 x 2.25 in.

A close-up and higher res picture is here.