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Adulting Bucket List Mrs Enginerd Travel

The Places We Have Gone!

New OrleansSeattleVancouverPortlandSan JuanCoeur D’AleneSpokaneNaritaYokohamaTokyoAnaheim/Los AngelesPhoenixLas VegasJuneauSitkaKetchikanVictoriaMiamiHouston/GalvestonAlbuquerque/Santa FéPhillipsburg/MarigotChicagoSantiagoOrlandoAtlantaSan FranciscoBarcelonaEugenePragueWashington DCFredericksburgBogotáVeneziaDubrovnikKuşadasiKatakolonOiaWalla WallaSan DiegoCannon Beach/AstoriaDublin/BelfastCharlotte/GreenvilleOsakaKyotoNaraKobeSan José/Santa Cruz🛳⛴✈🚘🚅🚠🚁 20 years of adventures and counting! P.S. Can’t wait for the Covid-19 travel restrictions to lift so we can add Munich and a few more destinations before the official anniversary!

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Adulting Mrs Enginerd

Writing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Day 21. It’s hard to believe that eight weeks ago we were all worried about the Australian wild fires, the impeachment of President Trump, and earthquakes in Puerto Rico. Primary elections were in the horizon and the Democratic party had 20+ candidates to choose from. In between debates, fears of the world ending, the routine […]

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MBA Chronicles: Class of 2019 Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff

Broken Hill, Part Two: How Destilería Serrallés and Cervecera de Puerto Rico Plan to Conquer the World (by W)

Puerto Rico, a small island in the Caribbean, has been pillaged and plundered by conquistadors and colonizers for over 500 years, a trend that has resulted in a very strong black market, rum running subculture. Although taxes and cabotage laws do not permit this broken hill to directly do commerce with any country other than […]

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MBA Chronicles: Class of 2019 Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff

Broken Hill: Puerto Rico in the Context of The Spiky World (by W)

Introduction Puerto Rico has been a territory of the United States of America for about 120 years. As a centrally located island in the Caribbean, it was “discovered” by Christopher Columbus during his second trip to the Western Hemisphere for Spain in 1493. It wasn’t until 1508 that Juan Ponce de Leon started the process […]

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Mrs Enginerd TV Shows and Movies

The Sinner (USA)

Jessica Biel (Cora Tannetti) and Bill Pullman (Detective Harry Ambrose) star in this cleverly written mystery drama that portrays the story of a young woman that snaps and kills a man in public. The trigger? A 1980s like song that transports Cora to a darker past that she has mentally blocked. It is up to […]

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Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff Sports

World Baseball Classic 2017: A Tale Of A Country, Divided

Puerto Rico has an edge not many other colonies or commonwealths have, they get to take a delegation to any major sports event including the Olympics even though they are a part of the United States. A right reserved for autonomous countries, Puerto Ricans became the exception to the rule because the USA gave them […]

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Adulting Mrs Enginerd

“A Nation, under God, Indivisible…”

We are standing at a crossroads. The high road looks like the right one to take but with so many people going low you start to wonder if you can endure the hike. It feels like common sense is common anymore and all the guise of civility has been ripped off our shoulders. Why are […]

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Mrs Enginerd TV Shows and Movies

Queen of the South

Loosely based on the book La Reina del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and translated into English, this Telenovela has been revamped for USA audiences in what can only be described as a female led version of Breaking Bad. The cinematography and writing styles are superb, and the mixing of Spanish and English dialogue glues you […]

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Layoff Mrs Enginerd

When I First Moved to the USA…

When I was 23, a big engineering firm hired me to design their products, processes and tools in their PNW facilities. At the time I was fresh out of college and had lived all my life in one place, a city of about a million people in a tropical paradise. My US Citizen status, awarded […]