Today I received word, after a lengthy four-month process, that my petition to return to the University of Florida after 23 years has been approved.  This was one of the major goals that I set for myself last year and this year and now it has been accomplished.  I have always felt a gaping hole inside having never completed my degree, not because I really needed it, but because it has always burned inside of me as a personal failure.  At this stage in my career it is probably not necessary, but it is something I set out to do and never accomplished.  It will be completed, I will not leave this world willingly without accomplishing this goal.