I'm baaaaack

Hi everyone,

Well I'm back. It's been a long time since I was last here, but there's been a lot of things going on in the world of Tim. Let's start with the biggest event: The career change.

For those of you that don't know, I am now an employee of Best Buy, and I couldn't be more excited about it. I'm the manager of market analysis for their new concept Best Buy Mobile. It was a little scary leaving a safe place like MapInfo and going to a retail company in such a down economic market, but I've definitely made the right decision. Although I'm extremely busy, I don't feel overburdened and the long term bennefits are going to be huge. I, of course, did not come to this decision all on my own. In fact, if it were not for my wonderful wife Jill, I would probably still be at my old job and be extremely stressed out right now. Which brings me on to my next item in our world of change: our new home.

Jill and I have moved to Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a wonderful suburb of Minneapolis. We're fairly close to everything we could want, but are definitely looking for some future housing options. Why you might ask, well because we hope to enlarge our family soon. And that means we'll want to have a happy home for little ones to grow up in. Jill will make an absolutely wonderful mother. It is amazing how she is just full of the mother gene, our cats already act more like little children under her tutalidge which makes me CRAZY excited for how our actual children will turn out.

OK, well this one is getting long, but I'd like to finish with my last effort of change in these recent days. I've been unsupportive of a lot of things lately, it in particular of my wifes efforts to be healthier. I'm admiting it here because I need to stress to myself, as well as to everyone else, how important it is to be a supportive friend, spouse, or child. Also, it is important to understand that being unsupportive doesn't necessarily mean being negative. You can say all the right positive things to them, but if you don't act like it is a great thing, it makes it almost worse than being outright negative.

I learned that the hard way, and I'd like to take the time to appologize to Jill, but also to implore everyone to take a second look at their friends and family and really look at what it is they might need support with. Don't ignore them, and don't think they're not worth paying attention to. Imagine how you'd feel if something you were trying hard to accomplish was ignored or looked down on by someone you cared about.

OK, so I got on a soapbox there for a little bit, but I think it's important for people to learn from everyone, not just their own experiences. Our friends and family deserve everything that we can offer them, and I'd love it if even one person could learn from the mistakes that I've made.

OK, well I'm going to try to be back here blogging it up more often. But in the mean time; stay classy: world.