Fifteen years ago today, Tod started a new job with Swiss Bank Corporation in Chicago. The bank has undergone almost a half dozen mergers, acquisitions and name changes, but Tod is still with them. His role has seen a lot of changes, too, as he’s progressed from Unix sysadmin to Unix engineer.

Thanks to that chance interview in 1995, our lives are very different than they might have been. I was going to list some of the opportunities and experiences his job has created for us, but there are too many. Pretty much everything we are and do now is due in some part to Tod’s long service at UBS.

So congratulations and thank you, darling, for sticking with this gainful employment thing for so long. I am ever grateful and very proud of you.