Trying to push through

Daily Kos: Open Letter to that 53% Guy

Daily Kos: Open Letter to that 53% Guy:

'via Blog this'

Digital Life - 5 activity monitors that motivate you to move

Digital Life - 5 activity monitors that motivate you to move:

'via Blog this'

10 things only bad managers say - Business - US business - Bloomberg Businessweek - msnbc.com

10 things only bad managers say - Business - US business - Bloomberg Businessweek - msnbc.com:

'via Blog this'

Happy Birthday Anika & Anders! Annual Physical, and Weight....again.

Wedding Anniversary, Entrepreneurship, Vegas

OnMilwaukee.com Travel & Visitors Guide: Seven Wonders of Wisconsin: Door County

OnMilwaukee.com Travel & Visitors Guide: Seven Wonders of Wisconsin: Door County

Yup...this is where I live! Pretty awesome!

Stuck in a Moment/Discipline/Ping Pong

U2's Bono & The Edge Perform "Stuck In a Moment" on David Letterman - YouTube

I just love this song. The raw acoustic style, simply done- yet very powerful. This song just touches me--it's not so much the words, necessarily (Elisabeth makes fun of me for this), but I think the words are pretty powerful too. I think this song will be one of my favorites for a long, long time. Long live U2!!!

U2's Bono & The Edge Perform "Stuck In a Moment" on David Letterman - YouTube

L'EQUIP - Life in Healthy Balance

L'EQUIP - Life in Healthy Balance-- Time to order some juice!!!

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com

Edit Profile | LinkedIn

Edit Profile | LinkedIn Click on the smaller Link and you'll be taken to see my profile. Cheers.

the MAGIC Marketplace | Each February and August, the fashion industry converges on Las Vegas for three of the most influential days in the business

the MAGIC Marketplace | Each February and August, the fashion industry converges on Las Vegas for three of the most influential days in the business

The Runner's World.com Ultimate Half Marathon Training Plan

The Runner's World.com Ultimate Half Marathon Training Plan

1st Video Blog (vlog)! Epiphanies Echo

Here it is! My first edition. More to come!

Let's make this happen

Well, I'm gonna give this a shot. I think that making some posts here and there and getting my thoughts out in a blog might be a good thing. I'm hoping to do a mixture of blogs and vlogs. I've been engaged in so much political discussion on Facebook, that I might incorporate some of that banter here. Also, I want my daughters to maybe have a spot to read about me in the future. It will be interesting to see how things change over time. Right?

It all begins...

Ahoy there fellow eCommerce classmates (and whoever else might happen across my blog)!

This is my first "missive" written as an installment of this blog assignment for my 9^th class in the MS-Project Management program through Boston University. Please forgive my late posting as I am currently recovering from a "health scare" that impacted the completion of my previous class as well as the start of this class.

My name is Andrew Olson and I am from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. I am married and am a father to two daughters (ages 4 and 5). I am a Project Manager with a reliability management consulting firm based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Currently, I am assigned to a maintenance efficiency improvement project at a major oil refinery in the Canadian oil sands up in Fort McMurray, Alberta. I travel for work and am on the road 40 weeks a year.

The travel is a mixed blessing as it provides the opportunity for a small town citizen like myself to work for major corporations. It also provides me many nights in a hotel room where I can focus more intently on studies! However, the mixed part is missing my family while I am gone. This is a major portion of why I have mixed feelings about my current job. Then again, the financial rewards may provide long term gains for the short term sacrifice of being gone from home.

I also own and operate “Olson Piano Services” as a piano technician and have a constant supply of pianos to tune or rebuild. I enjoy the combination of music, technology, woodworking, physics, project management, and customer service that are all a part of tuning and servicing pianos. I am a member of the Piano Technician's Guild of America.

For leisure my family and I sail our Pearson 26 on the beautiful waters of Lake Michigan. I also enjoy acting in various theatrical productions (where I met my wife), playing trombone, running, and hiking with our 90 lb chocolate lab. I look forward to completing my Masters so I can turn my attention back to many of these things!

Good luck to all of you as we proceed with our coursework. I’m sure we’ll meet and talk more in discussions!