hi everybody-- Sean,Phillip & Dad fishing out of Deep Creek. A perfect day to be on the water. Phillips first halibut caught with a rod. Both are following tradition with their first kiss! Dad out fished the both of them!
Monday, December 12, 2005
Fishing with the BIG boys
hi everybody-- Sean,Phillip & Dad fishing out of Deep Creek. A perfect day to be on the water. Phillips first halibut caught with a rod. Both are following tradition with their first kiss! Dad out fished the both of them!
Saturday, December 10, 2005
December doldrums
Hello my far-flung family!
The days are passing swiftly on toward the new year. Some days are more full than others and threaten to overwhelm me. Other days I barely have enough going on to keep out of trouble. Somehow a little voice in my head tells me that I should not admit things like this in an open forum, for fear of being put to work, but to heck with the little voices! They get their way too often.
I am still working on homework for this semester, but at least my big group project is behind now. That was a 30+ page survey of a local company's "knowledge management" activities, that ended with our recommendations to the company. It was a strain, to say the least. Somehow I ended up doing most of the research and writing, and had many late nights over the past two weeks trying to bring it together. I still ended working on it until 4:30 am the day after it was due in order to get it in. I wonder sometimes why I am paying for this torture, but at least I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This semester is officially over in one more week, and then I have just one more to go. I expect to finish in May of next year. After that, who knows? Maybe I will actually get a job!
Susan and Megan went out the other day and picked up a christmas tree, so I guess the christmas season has now begun. We have such a small little living room that I really wonder where in the heck we are going to fit it.
As a family, we are spending less and less time together these days. With Zachary working at Fred Meyer and Megan being a social butterfly, they are not often home for long. And when they are they are usually talking with friends on the phone and computer, or making plans to leave again. We have to fight to get their attention for very long, but enjoy it when we do. They are both very interesting to talk with, albeit testy at times.
Zack wants to get his eyebrow pierced (a big negatory on that one, good buddy), and is angling to buy a car (save your money, son!). He has a film showing in the AIFF tomorrow, but is disdainful of it and doesn't even want to go to it. I, being the proud parent, will go anyway.
Meg doesn't seem to have many interests outside of her social life these days. Oh, she is involved in band and the other usual school stuff, but when she gets home it is messenging, TV, and telephone. I think it is she and her friends that keeps the electronics industry excited.
I had hoped to show you their latest school picture, but our scanner is so bad that I couldn't bear to post them. I will try another time. In the meanwhile, you can check out a photo from an outing at a lake near Big Lake last year.
GTG now. I still have several papers to write. Hope you are all well. Post some pictures!
Love, Jed
The days are passing swiftly on toward the new year. Some days are more full than others and threaten to overwhelm me. Other days I barely have enough going on to keep out of trouble. Somehow a little voice in my head tells me that I should not admit things like this in an open forum, for fear of being put to work, but to heck with the little voices! They get their way too often.
I am still working on homework for this semester, but at least my big group project is behind now. That was a 30+ page survey of a local company's "knowledge management" activities, that ended with our recommendations to the company. It was a strain, to say the least. Somehow I ended up doing most of the research and writing, and had many late nights over the past two weeks trying to bring it together. I still ended working on it until 4:30 am the day after it was due in order to get it in. I wonder sometimes why I am paying for this torture, but at least I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This semester is officially over in one more week, and then I have just one more to go. I expect to finish in May of next year. After that, who knows? Maybe I will actually get a job!
Susan and Megan went out the other day and picked up a christmas tree, so I guess the christmas season has now begun. We have such a small little living room that I really wonder where in the heck we are going to fit it.
As a family, we are spending less and less time together these days. With Zachary working at Fred Meyer and Megan being a social butterfly, they are not often home for long. And when they are they are usually talking with friends on the phone and computer, or making plans to leave again. We have to fight to get their attention for very long, but enjoy it when we do. They are both very interesting to talk with, albeit testy at times.
Zack wants to get his eyebrow pierced (a big negatory on that one, good buddy), and is angling to buy a car (save your money, son!). He has a film showing in the AIFF tomorrow, but is disdainful of it and doesn't even want to go to it. I, being the proud parent, will go anyway.
Meg doesn't seem to have many interests outside of her social life these days. Oh, she is involved in band and the other usual school stuff, but when she gets home it is messenging, TV, and telephone. I think it is she and her friends that keeps the electronics industry excited.
I had hoped to show you their latest school picture, but our scanner is so bad that I couldn't bear to post them. I will try another time. In the meanwhile, you can check out a photo from an outing at a lake near Big Lake last year.
GTG now. I still have several papers to write. Hope you are all well. Post some pictures!
Love, Jed
Saturday, December 03, 2005
More job hopping
Hello All!
It seems like there is never a dull moment around here. The last time I was able to post anything, I told you that Susan had taken a new job at ASCG as a project accountant. I said at the time that it was "a bit of a stretch" for her. She had encouraged me to stop by the new jobsite and meet everyone, but I demurred, mumbling some remark about 'not wanting to get emotionally attached.' I think that I was applying a little foresight there. After one month on the job she decided that it was just not for her, and has already found another!
She has an amazing ability that way. Finding work for me is this painful process of searching for just the right sounding opening, imagining the politics of it and what it would be like to work there, how it would change things for the family, then agonizing over the resume, the interview, etc. Not Susan. She flips through the paper and circles three or four likely-sounding candidates, makes a few phone calls, and has interviews lined up and knocked out within a week or two. She is always so poised and charming that invariably they seem to like her, and she ends up with the enviable dilemma of having more than one job to choose from.
So after two weeks as an accountant she realized that it was slow death on a hot spit, and went looking for something else. She didn't have far to go. She was picked up to be a project assistant by an international environmental engineering firm by the name of The Shaw Group. They have locations all over the world and recently opened a new office here.
I have to admit that I think this is a better fit for her. She will be doing the usual admin assistant stuff, but will also get to do some writing and editing. I feel a lot better about it than the accounting grunt work she was faced with at ASCG.
I am still 7 papers away from finishing this semester's school, so as usual I am pressed for time. It is also the holiday party season. Since I have both skills with sound reinforcement (as it is called) as well as the church's audio equipment in my garage, I am now being called on to run out and set up for an event today.
I hope I can post some pictures next time. Love to you all.
Jed
It seems like there is never a dull moment around here. The last time I was able to post anything, I told you that Susan had taken a new job at ASCG as a project accountant. I said at the time that it was "a bit of a stretch" for her. She had encouraged me to stop by the new jobsite and meet everyone, but I demurred, mumbling some remark about 'not wanting to get emotionally attached.' I think that I was applying a little foresight there. After one month on the job she decided that it was just not for her, and has already found another!
She has an amazing ability that way. Finding work for me is this painful process of searching for just the right sounding opening, imagining the politics of it and what it would be like to work there, how it would change things for the family, then agonizing over the resume, the interview, etc. Not Susan. She flips through the paper and circles three or four likely-sounding candidates, makes a few phone calls, and has interviews lined up and knocked out within a week or two. She is always so poised and charming that invariably they seem to like her, and she ends up with the enviable dilemma of having more than one job to choose from.
So after two weeks as an accountant she realized that it was slow death on a hot spit, and went looking for something else. She didn't have far to go. She was picked up to be a project assistant by an international environmental engineering firm by the name of The Shaw Group. They have locations all over the world and recently opened a new office here.
I have to admit that I think this is a better fit for her. She will be doing the usual admin assistant stuff, but will also get to do some writing and editing. I feel a lot better about it than the accounting grunt work she was faced with at ASCG.
I am still 7 papers away from finishing this semester's school, so as usual I am pressed for time. It is also the holiday party season. Since I have both skills with sound reinforcement (as it is called) as well as the church's audio equipment in my garage, I am now being called on to run out and set up for an event today.
I hope I can post some pictures next time. Love to you all.
Jed