Help! I'm melting!
Temperature going to be over 100 today... Heat index of 110... Heat index of 115 tomorrow... Must.... not.... move...
Of course, this really just means that I need to stay inside the next few days, which is really business as normal for me anyways. I'm not much of an outside person these days, aside from walking the dog, taking the kids to the pool, yard work, etc. And we won't be doing much of those except for walking the dog these next few days. Simply too hot.
In other news, I realize that it has been an extremely long time since I posted any updates here. All in all, not too much has been going on. We went to the beach at Gulf Shores, AL for the week of July 4th. We have a couple of time shares there, and we met up with both of my sister-in-laws and their families as well as my father-in-law and his wife. We all had a pretty good time.
Ashley went to a wedding for a friend of hers in GA a few weekends ago, leaving me home alone with both kids for a weekend. We survived. And last week Ashley and Nelia went to Birmingham, AL for a few days to visit another family friend. They drove to Atlanta and went to a Braves game while they were there. It was Nelia's first professional baseball game. She had a blast!
Russell has started crawling now, and he is getting into everything! One of his favorite past times right now is trying to catch our dog. The cat has better sense and doesn't go anywhere near him, but the dog doesn't always seem to remember that he can crawl now. We definately need to get a move on and start child proofing the house. Nelia was so mellow that we never had to do much more than put the plugs in the electrical outlets. I think we will need to do a bit more with Russell.
The only other thing going on right now is work. I have been working like a dog lately, but it appears to be beginning to pay off. I have received quite a bit of recognition up to my 3rd level manager now. I am being given high profile, high priority projects to work on. I am also writing technical documents and methodology improvements and getting recognition for them. I even have a patent filing about to go through to the USPTO, which is quite cool. And I will be making a presentation at an IBM conference in Burlington, VT in November. The excessive amounts of work hasn't exactly been the greatest, but it was made a little better last week when my manager presented me with a $1000 bonus. So the money and recognition helps to offset the big workload. All in all, I have to say that I am very happy with the position I am working in right now. It has taken me less than a year to get back to the level of confidence, recognition, and respect that I had in my former position with a completely new organization and management chain.
Of course, this really just means that I need to stay inside the next few days, which is really business as normal for me anyways. I'm not much of an outside person these days, aside from walking the dog, taking the kids to the pool, yard work, etc. And we won't be doing much of those except for walking the dog these next few days. Simply too hot.
In other news, I realize that it has been an extremely long time since I posted any updates here. All in all, not too much has been going on. We went to the beach at Gulf Shores, AL for the week of July 4th. We have a couple of time shares there, and we met up with both of my sister-in-laws and their families as well as my father-in-law and his wife. We all had a pretty good time.
Ashley went to a wedding for a friend of hers in GA a few weekends ago, leaving me home alone with both kids for a weekend. We survived. And last week Ashley and Nelia went to Birmingham, AL for a few days to visit another family friend. They drove to Atlanta and went to a Braves game while they were there. It was Nelia's first professional baseball game. She had a blast!
Russell has started crawling now, and he is getting into everything! One of his favorite past times right now is trying to catch our dog. The cat has better sense and doesn't go anywhere near him, but the dog doesn't always seem to remember that he can crawl now. We definately need to get a move on and start child proofing the house. Nelia was so mellow that we never had to do much more than put the plugs in the electrical outlets. I think we will need to do a bit more with Russell.
The only other thing going on right now is work. I have been working like a dog lately, but it appears to be beginning to pay off. I have received quite a bit of recognition up to my 3rd level manager now. I am being given high profile, high priority projects to work on. I am also writing technical documents and methodology improvements and getting recognition for them. I even have a patent filing about to go through to the USPTO, which is quite cool. And I will be making a presentation at an IBM conference in Burlington, VT in November. The excessive amounts of work hasn't exactly been the greatest, but it was made a little better last week when my manager presented me with a $1000 bonus. So the money and recognition helps to offset the big workload. All in all, I have to say that I am very happy with the position I am working in right now. It has taken me less than a year to get back to the level of confidence, recognition, and respect that I had in my former position with a completely new organization and management chain.