Archive for December, 2008

Christmas 2008 in San Francisco and Tahoe with brothers Ben (+ Allison) and Joe

Joe flew in first for some extended bonding time. We had a nice Christmas in Napa with Sara’s extended family.

Ben and Allison joined us Christmas evening. Yes, our small 1-bedroom apartment will happily sleep 5. That’s Joe in his hallway/bedroom.

Winetasting in Napa was followed by a week of snowboarding in Tahoe. [...]

1/12th done! My first term at UC Davis’ Bay Area Working Professional MBA program

The first quarter of b-school was kinda awesome. I met a bunch of cool kids, learned a lot more about finance than I thought I was going to, and the material in class was incredibly relevant to the crashing economy and failing banks. We talked about mark-to-market financial accounting the weekend before Lehman [...]