I slept for 10 hours last night! It's been a busy week. There's a crush to get the two companies merged so I was busy the first part of the week doing an audit of all the things that our engineers are working on. Tuesday a group of us flew to LA to meet with Fox. The meetings weren't actually until Thursday but we spent some time working at Mike's house (he's a Move employee that works out of his home in Long Beach). Anywhere there's internet connection or cell phone coverage, we're online working so it doesn't really matter where you're at. Mike has a sail boat so for the afternoon, we played hooky and went out sailing. It was a beautiful day (a little on the chilly side) but a great and relaxing time. We went out from Long Beach harbor and once beyond the barrier got into some rollers. No one got sick. Then back along the beach to watch the kite surfers. Hit a great Thai restaurant for dinner. Meetings on the Fox lot in Hollywood... Kind of fun. The buildings and offices are right off the Fox sets so it's like an old city down one alley and a western town down another. Meetings went ok. We have a lot to do if we want to keep their business and with the new company we bought, there's debate if we want to keep it or not. A difficult position to be in as they need our service but we need to give it more attention.
(Sailing pics:
http://techmarketingink.com/photos/090430_sailing/index.html )
A nice flight home Thursday night and a very full day on Friday. Meetings right up to 4:30 when I left with the scouts to hike up to the yurt in Mill Creek Canyon. We had done it before but cross country skied in. This time, it was to be mostly road but turned out to be mostly slushy snow. Two and a half hours in light rain but the yurt was warm and dry. When we got ready to leave, it was raining and only came down harder as we left. A continuous downpour for the two hour hike out and everyone was like drowned rats! But, a memorable activity to be sure. I came home, washed the car, hit the hot tub and then was asleep by the time my head hit the pillow!
Today we had a nice church, choir practice, helped a neighbor with his computer, a scout with merit badges, a nap and then we had the Merkley's over for a lovely dinner. Jessica made great dinner of chicken pesto pasta, fruit and salad. And here we are to this minute....
Hope you all have a wonderful week!
Love,
Peter
