Grandmother Clegg's Birthday Today
What a great weekend so far! I started out Friday night on the way home from work, buying myself a birthday present. Seems rather selfish but I enjoyed it.. a new chainsaw. It's a little Stihl and on Saturday, I used it go cut down three trees in the yard. I had an Aspen that had died a couple of years ago and then eliminated the two flowering pairs that were in the corner by the mailbox. They grow so fast and were shedding something terrible on the neighbor's driveway. They were also blocking the sun from the honey locust that I really want to be the center tree of that part of the yard. I left one trunk with on branch sticking up to see if any of the neigbors say anything. It looks like Charley Brown and pretty ugly.
We had stake conference today but it was actually 135 stakes from Utah and Wasatch counties. It was really quite incredible in that it was broadcast from the Marriott Center. President Packer talked on how that the technology has enabled them to have meetings around the world from church headquarters and they were now using video conferencing to interview mission presidents as each has to be interviewed by one of the Twelve. "We can't convey authority without being in person but we can do most everything else," he said. Afterwards, me and Scott Wells and another neighbor were up on the stage figuring out how they got the signal to the church building and looking at the projection technology. Tonight is the maiden voyage of using Move Networks technology for the CES Fireside for the Church. They installed encoders in the conference center and Elder Holland will be speaking with his talked streamed live in HD over LDS.org. President Uchtdorf also talked and said that we should ask ourselves two questions and then listen to the spirit for the answers. 1) What can I do to increase my faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ? 2) What can I do to strengthen my family? I had some interesting thoughts on both of these and feel bad that I didn't get a cousin's camp going this year. So... will look forward to getting the Christmas Party planned.
Linda Christensen was down this week to a craft show so stayed here Friday night. We had a good visit and got caught up on each other's families. She gave me some excellent ideas on painting the house and colors so I'm set on what to do next. She and Nathan want to go to Thailand and I want to go to Italy with them so we decided we need to get some travel plans made...and a way to afford how to do it. Just heading out the door to have dinner with Frank, Melissa and kids tonight and then to the Littlefields with Hunters tomorrow night.
Work this week was ... it just was. No positive days but several neutral. We have been streaming the NFL games to people living outside the US. Got comments from all over saying how well it worked. Iceland, Turkey, Korea. Just getting geared up for the new fall seasons for Fox and ABC. Fox's new series Fringe which is supposed to be pretty good will debut this Tuesday night with us streaming online live at the same time it's on TV--a first. I've been working more this week with box vendors that will allow our technology to connect direct to a TV instead of through a computer. Probably a year off on those solutions.
Did a couple of great bike rides and enjoyed some spectacular sunsets. For scouts, we biked up to Bridal Veil Falls on Tuesday and it was a perfect night as far as weather. Have been riding my mountain bike more and do the water towers to the access road and then when I get to the top, lay on the warm cement cistern and watch the sun go down. I also enjoyed a great week of food! At mostly fresh produce as Ben loaded me up with corn and cucumbers on Monday and I had tomatoes from my garden with fresh fruit.
Well... I hope you all have a great week.
What a great weekend so far! I started out Friday night on the way home from work, buying myself a birthday present. Seems rather selfish but I enjoyed it.. a new chainsaw. It's a little Stihl and on Saturday, I used it go cut down three trees in the yard. I had an Aspen that had died a couple of years ago and then eliminated the two flowering pairs that were in the corner by the mailbox. They grow so fast and were shedding something terrible on the neighbor's driveway. They were also blocking the sun from the honey locust that I really want to be the center tree of that part of the yard. I left one trunk with on branch sticking up to see if any of the neigbors say anything. It looks like Charley Brown and pretty ugly.
We had stake conference today but it was actually 135 stakes from Utah and Wasatch counties. It was really quite incredible in that it was broadcast from the Marriott Center. President Packer talked on how that the technology has enabled them to have meetings around the world from church headquarters and they were now using video conferencing to interview mission presidents as each has to be interviewed by one of the Twelve. "We can't convey authority without being in person but we can do most everything else," he said. Afterwards, me and Scott Wells and another neighbor were up on the stage figuring out how they got the signal to the church building and looking at the projection technology. Tonight is the maiden voyage of using Move Networks technology for the CES Fireside for the Church. They installed encoders in the conference center and Elder Holland will be speaking with his talked streamed live in HD over LDS.org. President Uchtdorf also talked and said that we should ask ourselves two questions and then listen to the spirit for the answers. 1) What can I do to increase my faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ? 2) What can I do to strengthen my family? I had some interesting thoughts on both of these and feel bad that I didn't get a cousin's camp going this year. So... will look forward to getting the Christmas Party planned.
Linda Christensen was down this week to a craft show so stayed here Friday night. We had a good visit and got caught up on each other's families. She gave me some excellent ideas on painting the house and colors so I'm set on what to do next. She and Nathan want to go to Thailand and I want to go to Italy with them so we decided we need to get some travel plans made...and a way to afford how to do it. Just heading out the door to have dinner with Frank, Melissa and kids tonight and then to the Littlefields with Hunters tomorrow night.
Work this week was ... it just was. No positive days but several neutral. We have been streaming the NFL games to people living outside the US. Got comments from all over saying how well it worked. Iceland, Turkey, Korea. Just getting geared up for the new fall seasons for Fox and ABC. Fox's new series Fringe which is supposed to be pretty good will debut this Tuesday night with us streaming online live at the same time it's on TV--a first. I've been working more this week with box vendors that will allow our technology to connect direct to a TV instead of through a computer. Probably a year off on those solutions.
Did a couple of great bike rides and enjoyed some spectacular sunsets. For scouts, we biked up to Bridal Veil Falls on Tuesday and it was a perfect night as far as weather. Have been riding my mountain bike more and do the water towers to the access road and then when I get to the top, lay on the warm cement cistern and watch the sun go down. I also enjoyed a great week of food! At mostly fresh produce as Ben loaded me up with corn and cucumbers on Monday and I had tomatoes from my garden with fresh fruit.
Well... I hope you all have a great week.
