Wearing Down

Ok, I'm starting to wear down a little in school. I have almost completed 27 hrs out of a total of 33. I am so ready to get this over with. I have to say that I've learned a great deal about business matters that I wouldn't have learned in my small company of 60+ employees. I've learned a lot about entrepreneurship, both on an individual and corporate level (intrapreneurship). I've found that I can attribute my success at work to the fact that I have been very intrapreneurial since my first day on the job. I have always looked for ways to streamline and automate processes, and have been very innovative in my problem solving approaches. I have also learned more through my economics and quantitative decision analysis classes than I could have ever imagined. Who knew linear programming was fun? Brooke says that she didn't marry a nerd, but I guess she's stuck with me now. But, as the semester is winding down, I find myself being worn out. It's just as if a monkey is constantly on my back and I'm always thinking about the work I'm going to have to do when I get home from work. May can't get here fast enough. It was very satisfying to get my degree audit in the mail on Friday. To see that I'm scheduled for graduation in May brought a smile to my face.

Halloween

We had a fun time last night. Mattie went to a few houses, but really she just wanted to go back to the house and sit on the porch and pass out candy. She likes to see what everyone else is dressed up like. Timmons fell asleep when we were trick-or-treating. We didn't have as many kids come by this year. Still had a couple hundred, but nothing like years past. Probably because it was on a church night and a lot of the local churches had things going on. We still ran out of candy at 7:45 though.

Business Trips

So I'm in Gatlinburg for the second consecutive week. Last week was for an Accounting and Finance meeting, this week for a Utility Technology Conference. My family was with me last week, but this week I'm by myself. I miss them very much. Hope to get home to see them soon. Lil' Tim just had tubes in his ears two weeks ago and he seems to be doing much better now. Mattie is a ball of thunder. She has so much energy. So much, in fact, that she keeps getting injured. Well, going to eat........

New Site Design

OK. It's been a while since my last post. In my defense, I've been very busy with work, school, kids, etc. While I've been away from my blog, I have been able to update my website. I used phpnuke, and so far I'm pretty happy with it. Still learning how to tweak it like I want to. I like the built-in user security that comes with the package, but as far as customizing it like I want, I'm going to have to dig a little deaper. I'd like to dump the site into dreamweaver and see what I can do with it from there. If I'm not entirely happy with phpnuke, my next step is to go to wordpress, which seems like it's a little more customizable.