Happy 3rd Birthday Griffin!!

It's hard to believe that it's been 3 years now. I look back on the early entries in the blog archives and I smile. I knew that I was in for a life-changing experience. I had no idea how much it would change my life. Griffin is my pride and joy. He's been an absolutely rotten 2 year old and I've loved him every minute of it. I do look forward to the changes that I'm already seeing in him each day. He's quite the young man. He's all boy, but there's a very sensitive side too. He's stubborn and combative sometimes, but he's also very open to new experiences. He is facinated with space. We sit, sometimes for hours looking at pictures of stars, planets and galaxies on the web. We've been watching the moon and stars most nights since he was 1. I do my best to explain which ones are Venus or Mars and finger-draw some of the constellations for him. Unfortunately, I can only remember a fraction of what Donnie taught me about astronomy...so I have to improvise sometimes. He loves the school he attends two days a week. Everyone yells his name when he shows up in the morning. He's very popular, and is learning how to play well with others. Some of his schoolmates and family members are going to come over next Friday to celebrate his birthday at our house.

I just got home from a 53 hour work week. I managed to get 22 servers built and shipped, so I'm going to put the computer down for while.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GTB, I LOVE YOU!!!

 
Still Kicking!

Yeah, yeah...I've been slacking quite a bit with the blog here. Life sometimes goes by so fast, you don't have time to stop and document it as well as you'd like.

Things at work have really picked up. I've been moved to a different position within my group, leaving operational support for server builds. I'm the lead of a 3-man server build team. We are configuring and cranking out lots of Windows 2003 servers for our Meridio project. These are going all over the world, so we're on a tight deadline to get them shipped (so they can wait for weeks in customs). It's a lot more fun than troubleshooting end-user problems with an application. The skills and experience that I'm picking up with the servers stuff will hopefully help me get a "real" job someday. That is an area that I have been weak in, primarily because of lack of exposure to the hardware.

Things are going great at home. Griffin just keeps growing so fast, I sometimes want to put a brick on his head...which is better than smacking him in the head with a brick...which is also a thought sometimes (just kidding! ;-) He will turn 3 this Friday, which hardly seems possible. He's really enjoyed the warmer weather, taking advantage of having his own yard this year. Amy's really happy to see some warm weather too...as having a 2 year old cooped up inside a house can be challenging sometimes. As usual, I've taken lots of pictures over the months, so my next task will be to get some of them posted up here for y'all to see.

One of the other milestones that was reached earlier this year was the 3rd anniversary of this blog. I know that I haven't kept it up to date as much as I (or everyone else) would like...but it's been a great way to be able to communicate with lots of friends and family who would otherwise just have to wonder about our lives. I can't say that I'll do BETTER this year, but I'll at least continue with the pace that I've set over the past 3 years.

Have a nice lunch.