I enjoy my time away from work, but I wouldn’t classify myself as the sort that “lives for the weekend.” It’s not that I dislike free time, but sometimes my wife and I plan weekend overnighters or fun activities that are entertaining and stimulating on many levels, but hardly relaxing. For example, we are traveling to Yellowstone National Park at the beginning of June with her mom and step-dad; and while we are really looking forward to the extended weekend, it won’t be very relaxing. We tend to be very busy on our vacations, and come home exhausted from the massive amounts of fun we’ve been having. My weekends are often a lot like that. We have so much that we either need or want to accomplish that the weekend ends up going too fast and being just as busy as a day at work.

[Note: Don’t get me wrong: Yellowstone is probably my favorite place to go on vacation, and we will have loads of fun with my in-laws (I am one of the fortunate ones that really loves and enjoys time spent with my wife’s family). My point is we will have such a good time that we won’t come back re-energized for work the next day.]

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Hello and welcome to my blog, which is currently named “The Lumbering Bear.” The tagline reads: “Writer of Words, Doer of Deeds, Seeker of Truth,” which I thought sounded cool and vaguely amusing, but is more of an aspiration. I will likely change at least one of those things in the near future, mostly in an attempt to sound a bit less conceited.

I don’t really know what I intend to do with this blog, other than just write a bunch of stuff for my own amusement. I have been a corporate blogger for about six months, and that job recently came to an end as I was reassigned to another position. I thoroughly enjoyed that opportunity, and it was a pretty simple decision to start my own. This is the result.

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