Sunday night and after a nap and dinner at the Gibbs', logged on to the Internet to find a little crisis around work. But... more about work later.. I'll put it all in one paragraph so that you who are sick of hearing about it can just skip it!
So a great weekend. Friday night had dinner in Salt Lake with an "award winning" film producer. Interesting guy but I'm finding that so much of this industry is all about perception and not so much about reality. He's done a couple of nice films but currently is living off income from one class he's teaching at a community college and unemployment insurance. He's got low expense living down and believes that he can last a year which will allow him to compose music and screenplay writing. Kind of scary if you ask me. Me and a friend have been doing some research on taking Move technology to film festivals and what the producer guy told us about what's going on has us convinced that Amazon already has that piece of the market sewn up.
Thursday was a treat with Kent, Mignon and all the little kids here for the evening. They were on their way to the orthodontist. Fun to have kids running through the house with laughter and toys. Little Kai had owies in his mouth so he wasn't too happy but all in all a good time. Saturday was a lazy day with some cleaning and a nice hike. Anna and Steve came down for a luncheon with friends and then we all went to Thai dinner, to the hot tub (which turned out to be cold) and then watched a movie. Fun to have them here as well.
Well for work.... I should just give you access to my private journal blog but if it were ever shared, which it can be easily, I'd be fired. The short story is that this week the board of directors has been doing a deep dive on the company and Thursday was an all day long meeting where they looked at the company's accomplishments over the last year. I thought it was interesting that all efforts that are currently the hope for the future had to be started clandestinely without letting the execs know. What got presented to the board was basically four different business plans from four CEOs--all trying to use the same resources. Rumor is they saw it that way and are going to focus on one and jettison or spin out the others. So, again this week, whether or not I have a job is to be determined. If they pick one of the options, I'll be safe and in the midst of it. If they pick one of the others, I'm probably out. At this point, I just want to get on to doing something that is productive. Friday afternoon, the Church came in and we gave them an overview of the things we are are working on. There was a fair amount of future fiction in the story we told (fortunately, they know us well enough to see through it).... but by the end of Friday after a day and a half of board presentations and the church meeting, I felt like I wanted to just go home and take off my hip waders from trudging through crap for a couple of days! I guess I need a better attitude but the lesson for me is that if those the lead are going to stretch the truth...it gets stretched worse as it rolls down the chain. I'm sure it works the same way in families.
Well, hope you're all well and that things are fairly secure. As I look through the family and at the economy, we've got some precarious times that could put all but a couple using food storage! I doubt it will come to that but it's humbling to think how that there's not a lot of security. I think we (or maybe our future generations) could really benefit from a family organization that focused on providing education, land, work experience and a degree of security for everyone. I was reading through Elder Perry's conference talk on the things that Thereau determined were essential for living (shelter, food, fuel)...and how families could work together to insure those. Something to think about.
Have a good week!
