FLW tour

I was thinking about my Dad on and off most of the day today, he started his 2005 FLW Bass Fishing tournament this morning in Florida. The great part about FLW is that they live broadcast the weigh-in's on the Net for all to see. So that was pretty much my No. 1 priority today - don't let anything keep me from watching the weigh-in. I came up with a unique way to accomplish that.

I started off the day waking up grumpy and not helping Wendy with Kenden as I should have, but I did get Alexa and Billy to the bus stop by 8:10 a.m. That's our standard morning around here, work is OK with me getting them on the bus and starting my workday at 9 a.m., as long as I stay until 5:30 p.m. Once at MVH I drank my coffee and chatted about the reorg with James and Rik, guys on my team. James is doing the opposite of me with the forms and applications, he's printing transcripts, certificates, work records etc. etc. I pretty much just filled out the form by cut and pasting my resume into it and sent it in. Rik feels more or less like me about the whole thing, he's only been with us 4 months. James has been here 5 years and has Mgt. Aspirations, but is concerned because EVERY job description they wrote requires a 2-yr or 4-yr degree. He has neither and is worried he'll get overlooked for any future opportunities. Rik was browsing the web looking for an online degree program as well. Best choice I ever made thus far regarding my career.... Go off to college, get in right after HS and get out in 4 years, even if it means not partying every night. I did that at Ohio University and it's led me to where I am today.

The Department of Surgical Services at MVH has been complaining of slowness to their applications, I got assigned a task by Steve to look into this week. I found an issue with a fiber connection between the distribution switch in the ground of of Southwest Tower and the Core switch in the computer room. It's a 2 Gigabit Etherchannel and only 1 Gigabit was functioning. It's been that way a while and some of my teammates efforts to fix it never got completed. I set off right away to repair that issue before I would even think about looking into an issue that is dependent on that link. After James and I tried everything to bring the link up and verified the cabling was good and the link still would , I determined it had to be a hardware problem on the distribution switch. I resolved that issue and the users are watching their systems in surgery for any more problems. I'm betting it's fixed.

Next I took Rik down to 40 West Fourth to bring up a new network switch to support the new Kobrick's Coffee House going into the ground floor. They needed connectivity to our network so our employee's can swipe their badges for coffee. I'm sure we'll make it a wireless hot spot too when we roll out wireless this year. All that accomplished and it was only 2 p.m. I left and picked up Kenden at daycare and he watched Monster's Inc. while I did some work from home, then at 3 p.m. we started watching Dad's weigh-in together. It was great, he actually recognized his papa's voice on the Internet stream before his picture popped up. It was cool. Dad caught 4 fish, for 4lbs 4ozs and finished int 54th place out of 200. He's back at it tomorrow to try and crack the top 10 to fish for $20,000 on Friday. Go Dad!

Alexa got sick at school today and her Dad picked her up, I went and got Billy. All three of us boys played Tiger Woods PGA tour 2005 golf for a while and had fun, Kenden was actually winning. KJ is 20 months old today. He's such a big boy now, he can say just about any word you ask him to say. BTW, Tiger Woods 2005 is an EA sports game. It's flawed too.

Wendy arrived home around 8:30 p.m. to tuck the boys in after their baths. They were tired! I'm going to stop doing the MJ out thing, it bothers me when Ryan Seacreast does it on American Idol, so why am I doing it here. Good night. MJ.