{"id":61,"date":"2008-05-07T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2010-07-16T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:26:12","slug":"busy-week-and-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Busy Week and New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I'm\u00a0<\/p>\n

After 22 years of active duty in the US Navy, I retired this past Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 Actually, I’m not officially off the books until the end of July but I have stacked up enough vacation days over the years to take a few months off.\u00a0\u00a0 I had a really great career as an electronics\/computer geek turned manager, but it was time to do something else for a living.\u00a0\u00a0Shipboard duty\u00a0in the Navy is quite hard on a family and I would have been separated from my family\u00a0a bunch over the next four years.\u00a0\u00a0My long term goals are to raise my two sons so be\u00a0successful men, husbands and fathers.\u00a0\u00a0 With Will approaching his teenage years I believe it\u00a0is really\u00a0important for me to be close and involved (Wither he likes it or not) to achieve those goals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

So this\u00a0past week has been a busy one around the house:\u00a0 Last minute retirement paperwork to,\u00a0 a hockey tournament,\u00a0parents coming in from\u00a0North Carolina,\u00a0extended family coming in as well,\u00a0the ceremony…..\u00a0 A lot of really cool and fun stuff going on.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All of which seemed to push “Get\u00a0a ride in”\u00a0down on the priority list.<\/p>\n

\"Preexisting
\nSidenote for my wife<\/em> – This is proof that biking was indeed a preexisting condition when we got together \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The big question that I have been mulling over the last six months has been:<\/p>\n

“What do I want to be when I grow up?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay I still don’t have a good answer for that, but the good news is there are lot of opportunities for my next career, so I need to narrow things down over\u00a0the course of the next few weeks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have always found that some of my best thinking gets done when I am at or near my maximum heart rate with lots of good clean air in my lungs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hmmmm, I’m thinking that some Utah slickrock and\u00a0narrow Colorado singletrack should help quite a bit with that effort.<\/p>\n

\"Singletrack\"<\/p>\n

Here is a few more pics\u00a0involving the\u00a0Navy<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you think my dream career involves your company please contact me<\/a>.\u00a0 Starting on Saturday, I will be sporadically off the grid for about a week so\u00a0expect some delay in responses.<\/p>\n

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