Sunday, February 25, 2007

YAYYYYYYY MARTY!!!!!!!!!

Martin Scorsese, who I idolized in film school finally won an Academy Award this evening for Best Director for 'The Departed'. It has been a long time coming. And the cherry on top is that the film also won Best Picture.

Congrats Marty. We love you!!

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Lots of subjects to cover

Finally....after the months and months of planning, programming, testing, training, and conversions, the JDE migration GoLive is finally here.

I really didn't have much to do with it until I got the position up here, and then suddenly it's "Hello, you are responsible for most of the users in the whole site". No problem, but tell me what you need me to do, what I can do (as far as what testing functions are available in CRP), and let me get it done.

Of course, not everything was made known until the last week. I guess we'll find out Monday.

Shipping will not be that much affected as manufacturing. Some of the users do not seem to be comfortable with the process as it was, much less now.

Not that anyone reading this (if anyone is reading it other than Cynthia even cares).

The SuperBowl is tomorrow and the Colts better win, because not only will I be sad if they lose, but of course baby Jesus will cry.

Don't let me down Peyton, or we'll have to bring Tee Martin in again to do what you could not :)

And let's talk about Desmina. I think she is part goat (which is okay because I like goats and all). The child can frickin eat. I think she may be the next Takeru Kobayashi (the Japanese competitive eating champion. She ate dinner, then she ate peanut butter crackers, now she's eating a bagel.....IT'S INSANE. By the time she's a teenager I'm going to have to cash out my 401K just to cover the groceries. Hopefully baby #2 isn't the same way or we're really in trouble :)

In other news, the story from Texas this week is that unfortunately my older sister Jenny was diagnosed with stage 2 uterine cancer :( She is going to have surgery to remove all the standard affected areas, and if the lymph glands are affected she will probably need chemo. She has a good prognosis from what I understand. Given her young age, I think she has a good chance.

Our wonderful former neighbor Cendei fought off stage 3 last year, and so I am not getting too down about it because Jenny is a fighter, always has been. She is strong willed and I know she can do it. Love you sis!!

That's about it. I miss riding my bikes, but I think the tides are turning weather wise. I think I may have found a nice criterium style loop right in my own backyard so to speak. We have a road around the whole facility at work which is the truck route. Nice smooth pavement. I may see if the company is okay with me riding the loop at lunchtime once the weather warms up. It will be much better than trying to get on the regular roads at lunch time.

Until next time, keep your shirt on.....unless you are Cynthia, in whic case...take it off :)