One of those “what just happened” weekends

By lex, on May 20th, 2007

Friday was spent ostensibly working on my thesis, if by “working” you can so enlarge your definition to include “staring slack-jawed at the screen, desperately seeking inspiration.” It didn’t help that an old squadron mate that had left the service a few years back and is waders-deep in his own start-up invited me to lunch last week, for to pitch an entrepreneurial opportunity that included the post-retirement intersection of Making Real Money with the potential of pushing Su-27 Flankers ** around, just for the business that was in it – no master’s required. There never was a sailor who had wax sufficient to stop that particular siren’s song from leaking through, but on the other hand I remind myself that having spent the better part of the last two years squandering the diminishing remainders of my misspent youth in systems engineering, marketing, financial management and ops analysis classes I am now a mere 80-100 double spaced pages (including bibliography and reference cites) from a free master’s degree, just in case the entrepreneurial spreadsheets don’t quite add up.