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A very long overdue personal update

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This has been long overdue, but here is what’s going on.

Two weeks ago Stacy gave birth to our first child, our daughter Adeline Rose Melillo.  She was born 7 pounds, 12 ounces and 19 inches tall.  She is doing very well, and is healthy.  Here is a video of her kicking a toy bird.

In other news, I traded in my BMW about a month ago and got a Mazda 3 hatchback.  My extended warranty and maintenance plan had expired and I wasn’t looking forward to the bills just to keep it on the road.

A few months ago I started a podcast called The UnRx (pronounced Unprescribed) Podcast.  You can check it out in iTunes or on it’s web site.  The show is about Crossfit, nutrition (mostly paleo related), and not much else really.

I finished reading A Dance with Dragons not too long ago.  No spoilers.  I liked the book, but it was also my least favorite of the five books so far.

 

Update on Business school

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I haven’t written to give an update on my MBA in quite some time so I figured this would be as good of a time as any. The spring semester of the part-time program at San Jose State University begins right after the new year, so I am already midway thru the two courses that I am taking. Both classes are core requirement classes:

  • BUS220 is Accounting Principles
  • BUS250 is Managerial Law and Ethics

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What I’m reading: Caro’s Book of Poker Tells

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For this week’s installment of What I’m reading, I bring you a book that I first read about 7 years ago. When I first decided that I wanted to play poker seriously, I bought two books. The first was Super System by Doyle Brunson, and the other was this one. While most poker players will tell you that Super System is the ultimate poker book, and they are probably right, I think that Caro’s book has some interesting life lessons intertwined in its pages that are so heavily poker focused.
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What I’m reading: Inherent Vice

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This is going to be a new feature on the site giving a plug to the current book that I am reading. I will tag them all “What I’m reading” so you’ll be able to find the archives easily. The first book came highly recommended by my friends back on the East coast. It is my first experience with the author, Thomas Pynchon, and I have to say I haven’t been let down so far. I don’t like to give too much away about books, but it’s a detective novel.

It even has a youtube trailer, which is the first time I’ve seen that for a book.

If you are looking for a quality piece of fiction. Something to take your mind off of the day to day worries of the world that reads very quickly and is highly entertaining(no pun intended), this one is recommended.

Inherent Vice