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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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/

https://www.cleftdentist.com/?p=1179

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.

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) – Movie Review

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Two Mules for Sister Sara is another Clint Eastwood classic. This is a fun movie of unexpected twists. The plot is very simple and both Clint and Shirley MacLaine played magnificent roles as very believable characters.

In his role as Hogan, Clint Eastwood, is his typical cowboy wandering the wild west when he stumbles upon Sister Sara riding a mule in the rough and tough desert land. The movie has many subtle funny scenes where Hogan and Sara are the dastardly (Clint) and the righteous (Shirley).

What’s all the more funny is that after I watched this movie a few times, I learned that Clint and Shirley were actually a couple! Upon reflection, I could sense that their relationship in the movie was quite genuine and it warms my heart to know how much fun making this movie must have been for them.

As far as the movie goes, basically it’s Hogan and Sara traveling together until they reach the main purpose of their adventure which is to save Sara from a ruthless bunch of Mexican bandits.

I highly recommend Two Mules for Sister Sara as a fun watch. It’s an adventure of this two fun people which is quite entertaining. I would give Two Mules for Sister Sara 9 out of 10 Steelers Stars.

High Plains Drifter (1973) – Movie Review

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High Plains Drifter (1973 – Clint Eastwood) is one of my all time favorite movies. Not because it’s action-filled or the typically Hollywood fancy stunt scenes. Rather, this movie had Clint Eastwood’s rather tough guy attitude and a very simple example of decency all rolled-up into one cigar-smoke.

The storyline of the movie is very simple, yet very deep also. I’ve seen this movie probably over 50 times now and I continue to be amazed at the powerful message of redemption that I had at the end of each viewing.

The plot of the movie was based in the town of Lago, and this town of Lago had a dirty little secret that they had hung a sheriff. The residents of Lago knew what they had done was wrong but there is no way to undue something such as a lynching.

So, Clint Eastwood (as the High Plains Drifter), comes into Lago as sort-of a ghost to teach the residents of Lago a lesson. Ironically enough, the High Plains Drifter, carefully plots his revenge to coincide with the return of three criminals that also want revenge on Lago.

This movie is fairly dark in it’s delivery so don’t watch High Plains Drifter if you are looking for a feel good story. HPD is about taking responsibility and not going along with the crowd for convenience. This movie is about the opportunity to make amends and not waiting too long to do this.