Category: Life and Family

My wife and I love our furry children but SHHHHH, don’t let them know. They are spoiled rotten!

2023 “compartmentalization” Year End Recap

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2023 was the year that ‘was’. In other words, it just happened for me and 365 days later, life status for me has barely changed, but also, it has changed a whole lot. How’s that for a confusing Kevin Neal-ism? Let me explain.

The year of 2023 was a year, for me personally, of few signification life events that I can recall. This is certainly not a bad thing, not a good thing…. it’s just different from years-passed which there was always something significantly memorable.

I guess that best way to summarize this past year in a single word would be “compartmentalization”.

With both my, as well as Brandee’s parents, now safely tucked away in a beautiful Heaven waiting for a fabulous reunion, there is nothing more for Brandee and I to do for them other than respect and honor all of their legacies as best as we can do.  This is both an awesome responsibility and a great duty.  Brandee and I were blessed with truly fantastic parents who genuinely cared about leaving terrific legacies!

To better our lives, one of the key things I did was to discard loose-ends which means people that have chosen to cross me-once and yet I gave them another chance. Two strikes and you are out in my new book! I have a few examples of this, but I won’t explain on this public blog. I would, however, as a learning-moment for my readers of this blog, caution people of making false-claims about your fellow employees/friends or family because the overall negative impact of your lies has serious implications many years later.

Business-wise, it was another very successful year for P3iD Technologies where we overachieved on most of our key metrics. We were able to accomplish many strategic and tactical objectives including many in-person marketing events, deliver solid revenue growth, aggressively invest in software development projects, onboard new clients, and, probably the most rewarding point, participate in several non-profit initiatives to help future generations of IT professionals get started in their business careers.

In my new ‘compartmentalization’ attitude and appreciating more than ever that the most valued resource in life is my ‘time’, is my precious time being allocated towards my wife, my furry kids, and our future. I love that Brandee is so dedicated to her work and does such a terrific job on behalf of her clients. She is learning so much every day and her sense of accomplishment is so energizing. I’m also pleased to report that our five furry children of Gracie, Bleu, Ella, Finn, JC…and even a collection of Fish, all seem to be living wonderful adoptee-lives with the Neal family.

Have a Blessed and Happy New Year!

Sincerely, Kevin

Cleft Lip and Palate awareness

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Children with serious cleft lip or cleft palate issues might suffer their entire lives with many problems including speech, dental as well as emotional ridicule because of their physical appearance.

As many of you reading this don’t likely know, I was born with a minor cleft lip. I was fortunate to have surgery at Stanford when I was very young but my Mom and Dad were severely traumatized.

While I was lucky and very fortunate to not have major problems in my life, the sad truth is that cleft lip and cleft palate are extremely serious problems for millions of children. I write to bring attention to this important cause because it can have devesting impact on lives whether it be physical or emotional.

Children with serious cleft lip or cleft palate issues might suffer their entire lives with many problems including speech, dental as well as emotional ridicule because of their physical appearance.

As you might tell, I’m passionate about this cause and I would like to do what I can do bring more awareness so if you have a comment or resource, please let me know.

I have not vetted the organizations below but at least here are some references:

https://www.smiletrain.org/patients-families/counseling-support

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1416766441871886/

Cleft Lip & Palate Support Groups

Seeing Clearly

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This week I’ve had this epiphany just to share an unvarnished version of my blog.

As I stated in 2009 (https://www.kevinneal.com/blog/2009/02/) when I started my blog, being transparent was what I will do!

So, against my resistance, I went to a local optometrist who was so wonderful!

After talking with the him for nearly an hour, he assured me that simple age, and especially stress can negativity affect vision. I always thought that the mind can overcome physical issues, but I was wrong. The way that that eye doctor explained was that our eyes naturally are gifted to focus, and there are eye-muscles to do this work even though it’s unconscious to us.

He explained, when we age those eye-muscles that help us focus just don’t work as well. Sort of like when our eye-muscles tend to breakdown then they don’t, coincidently enough, work as expected and cause headaches because it’s such a sincere effort to “see” which is something we are accustomed to naturally.

Also, as far as seeing clearly I know for a fact that this blog is under data surveillance, which is rather pathetic, but it is-what-it-is and those who choose to snoop so low are empty souls.  God Bless them as I pray that they eventually find happiness in their lives instead of the destruction they’ve caused. So, I say “hello and welcome” to our viewers and thanks to contributing to higher viewership.

I hope this valuable data of my Pet Family, Personal Life, Movie Reviews and basic business dealings that you can scrape from my publicly available blog gives you great satisfaction. I will not change my faith in humanity for your selfish, monetary, greed.

J.C. is the blessing we never imagined

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Brandee and I continue to be amazed daily, how lucky we are to have been able to re-home my mom’s cat, J.C.  J.C. (“Just Cat”) truly is a remarkable gift from God that came to us in uncertain times, but has worked out the best.

For those who might not have been following the story, Brandee and I already had four adopted animals with our two dogs of Gracie and Finn, but also our two cats of Bleu and Ella. While our dogs didn’t give us too much concern about integrating J.C. into our home, the unknown of having our two female cats was something we had to take very seriously.  We just couldn’t predict exactly how everyone would interact with each other.

Fast-forward one year later and I’m happy to report that J.C. has assimilated into our family so nicely and I think he’s found his happy place in life.  J.C. is the type of guy that you can sense his feelings, and it’s pretty apparent that he misses my mom and dad (who raised him for his first 10 years), but he also enjoys that zany-nest of his new family with Gracie, Finn and especially Bleu and Ella.

Brandee has given J.C. a new nick-name of “Bubba” which I think fits his funny personality very well. Bubba likes to spend most of his days lounging-around his bed, which Brandee constructed of many fluffy pillows, and leisurely exploring our living room area with the rest of us. Bubba never makes a fuss about himself and he just generally goes with the flow watching the action such as Daddy throwing the ball for Finn to fetch like 200-times nightly!

In summary, I’m so glad that J.C. is part of the Neal Barnhouse Family.  He is such an interesting character that makes Brandee and me so happy plus he’s a good example of an older brother for his four other siblings. It’s also amazing that J.C. is an angel in our house that has experiences with my mom and dad that is only known to him.

We love you J.C.!

-Mommy and Daddy