New Pictures
As promised, here's a small sampling of pictures taken over the past month. The first gallery includes some shots of our friend Susan and her two cute kids, Lane and Macy. They helped us out quite a bit while we were preparing for our move. Other shots were taken in hotel rooms a few weeks later when we went back to Wichita Falls for Amy's grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary (anyone who makes it that long deserves a major party!). The second gallery includes pics of my family here in Tulsa. Most are from a poolside steak dinner at my sister, Tracey's. Steven and Todd are hers and Joshua is my sister Tina's 1 year old (tomorrow).

I spent 1.5 hours yesterday morning interviewing with a downtown Tulsa engineering firm that is bidding on a huge CDMA overlay project for (of all companies) US Cellular. In fact, about 1/2 of the sites they are upgrading were ones that I originally built in S. OK and N. TX during my work with USCC. I'm really crossing my fingers that they win the contract. Unfortunately, they won't award the contract until the end of July, so it's going to be an anxious month waiting to find out. In the meantime, I'm still searching diligently for something else. I can't believe the news that has come out over the past two days regarding Worldcom. That's all the telecom job market needs...17,000 more unemployed people all fighting for positions in an already scarce job market. But despite everything I'm still hopeful that the future holds something better for me than "Do you want fries with that?".

 
Alive and Kicking in Tulsa
Sorry for the lack of updates...life's been a little hectic over the past month. I'm still doing better than Bob, though! ;-)

We have been up here in Tulsa now for almost a month. Living with my parents, along with my sister, her husband and 1 year old has been very interesting, if not somewhat chaotic at times. It's actually been fantastic to get to spend so much close time with my parents, sisters and nephews. They have all been incredibly supportive. The job market here in OK seems to be somewhat better than N. TX, but I am still searching for a full-time position that can actually support us. Griffin is healthy, growing like a weed, and still makes us smile every day. He's 3.5 months old now, and becoming more and more aware and expressive. His hand/eye coodination is improving as well. This weekend was the first time that Amy and I had been away from him for more than 2 hours. We drove down to Henrietta, TX Friday night to visit Amy's mom for a couple of days. My Mom, Dad and sister Tina did a great job of taking care of the little guy while we were gone (and Dewey, our little escape-artist pomeranian). It was very strange to wake up in the morning and not have the G-Man there to feed or look after. We were happy to make it home this afternoon. Judging from the smile on Griffin's face when he saw Amy and I, it doesn't look like he's holding any grudges for us leaving either.

We've continued to take digital pictures during the past month. I'll get them posted very soon.