Family is very important to me.  You wouldn’t know it just from reading my blog because I don’t talk much about them here, but my family is pretty close and I do my best to keep that going.  In corporate-speak, Family is one of my core values.

It is for this reason that  I am going to interrupt my usual blog goings-on to announce, with immense pride and tremendous happiness, that my niece is graduating tomorrow from the University of Central Florida*.   She earned a Bachelor of Science in “Education in Social Science Education”, with double minors in “English Language Arts Education” and “Hospitality and Tourism Management.”  I can’t even begin to fathom how those all go together, but my niece can because she’s one smart cookie.  I wish I could be there to see her graduate, but my team hasn’t finished with the teleportation prototype yet.  Congrats, Rebecca!

(And as long as I’m giving shout-outs to family, today is also the birthday of both my sister and my sister-in-law.  Happy birthday, y’all!)

Normal bloggy stuff will resume next week.  I still haven’t finished talking about my Easter weekend trip!

*UCF is also where I earned my degree, so I’m pretty pleased about that too.