9:23pm — My mom told me today that her brother, Hartmut Schulz died today. He was 81. The last 20 years of his life were very sad. She said he loved America and wanted so bad to move here, but, because of insurance, he couldn’t.

He died poor and alone in a nursing home.

It has been really really hot here in Dallas. In the upper 90’s daily.

7:57pm — I got back from visiting my mom late on Wednesday. I was surprised how short the flight actually was!

I think it was a very productive visit! My mom had numerous little assignments for me (as she usually does!) I had to sleep on an air mattress because her old couch (NICE couch!) had to be thrown out because, well, because . . . .

Her hair was WHITE, though! She had just decided to let it go instead of dying it black like she usually did. It actually looks pretty good, I think. Better than the half-black, and half-white look!

While I was there, she got a chance to talk to her grandson, my son, Austin. On Monday morning, she had actually called the Bayern Munich soccer team to find out how to get the autographs of certain team members.

9:46pm — It’s been weighing so heavy on me recently knowing that my son is being raised by a narcissistic mother. I believe that he is becoming more and more invisible in her eyes, if not even going to become the scapegoat. I see the pictures of her with her new little girl, who she seems to idolize much more than anyone else. This little girl will become Sara’s favorite, the middle two boys will be invisible, and Austin, because he is an outsider and still bears the last name of the person she hates the most (i.e. ME), he will become the one she blames everything that goes wrong in the family on.

8:47pm — Just had a pretty decent workout. Work has been slowing down a little bit, sooner than I expected with our Teams rollout. Our engagement with CDW is almost due to expire. It’s been a great experience so far! I have really learned a lot!

Now, I’m working with Christine to revamp the LTCG intranet using SharePoint Online.

This past Memorial Day, we were in New York City. It was short, but we sure did see a whole lot (and WALKED a whole lot!!) Spent a couple nights in a Doubletree hotel close to Times Square. I saw the spot (again) where I proposed to Sara, along with several other places that brought back a lot of memories.