Today I flew home from Napa and was really excited to see the family! The boys were probably the most excited! I really love to spend time with them! I almost didn’t make it home on my intended flight, however. I changed the car pickup from the hotel to a half-hour earlier (6am) which I’m […]
Today, I woke up and had a wonderful, elegant spread for breakfast. The meetings went very well and I learned a bunch about what we were doing right and a TON about what we were not doing as well as we should and should fix. The people there were a great help! We had participants
Today, Brittany started driver’s ed! Yikes! She’s really excited, but we are pretty nervous! 😐 We know she’ll do great, but the issue is that she tends to be a little more distracted in driving than Sarah is. Her big issue is that she’s addicted to music and thinks that she has to have it
Today, all three of the girls and Angela took off to girl’s camp in Indiana. Angela is helping out at camp this year because it’s the only year that all three of the girls will be there together. It’s Sarah’s last year and Kirstyn’s first! Brittany is a 4th year and is excited to get
Today I had a GREAT day up in Milwaukee at an RLF Reconnect for my leadership program I participated in through work. Once a year, the Midwest region hosts one of these and people come from all over to renew relationships, learn about leadership concepts, discuss the book we are asked to read for the
Well, I’m back from a GREAT week at Microsoft TechEd 2011. I had a great time and learned a ton! I know, what a way to talk about a conference of geekdom! 🙂 I stayed in the Ritz Carlton in Atlanta and it was a wonderful hotel. The staff was great and I slept pretty
Today I left for the Microsoft TechEd 2011 conference and am now in Atlanta! I’m pretty excited to attend the keynotes and sessions, and to talk to the vendors about products that might be able to help us out. We’ll see how it goes! The place here for the conference is HUGE! I think I’m
Tonight, Brittany had her spring orchestra and percussion ensemble concerts tonight. She did a GREAT job! It’s great that she has picked up both orchestra and percussion. She enjoys both and it gives her two separate things that she can do to round off her talents! 🙂 Sometimes I think she enjoys percussion even more
Over the past 2 days, I had an IT Senior Leadership Team retreat that I was invited to at the Wyndham Hotel in Lisle. As the chair of the IT Leadership Committee, I have been able to work closely with the committee to help draft the Grant Thornton IT strategy for the next 3-5 years.
For the last 3 days, I have been in Austin Texas at Dell Corporation. We are rolling out a new internet-based product that will help us with our asset management. The trip was a lot of fun and we had a great time! In addition to the great people at Dell training us on what
Today, we had the Grant Thornton Thanksgiving party. Our division was assigned to bring the main dish, so I signed-up to bring meatballs. Little did I know that my boss had just given the event planning group some money to buy all the stuff. 🙂 From the list, I looked like I was the only
Today, Zach had his last football game and was kind-of sad that it is over. Like the rest, they lost, but he had some great blocks! He played both Center and on the line today. They kept getting better and better each week. If they had about 6-8 weeks more of games, they might actually
