Big recognition for a job well done :)

* Finishing up something at work that I thought would take a couple weeks in only 3 days!!

* Getting congratulated a lot by my boss during our weekly team meetings for getting as much done as I did! He even went on about putting it on my yearly performance review! Awesome. We weren't even in a time crunch. Not only was he commenting on my learning a new language and porting a program over, he also realized how much I'd been helping one of the other groups with their code/logic.

* A cooler morning and evening

* Seeing at least 6 people signed up for ultimate on Sunday...it might really happen this time :)

Upcoming fun

* Getting out and riding my bike

* Chatting at starbucks about anything and everything, geeky and
non-geeky until midnight (yes, they close at 10pm)

* Finding out that Claire & Stew got a big jetski and that we may go
out and use it this weekend somewhere :)

* Hearing that my parents will be in town the latter half of next week!

Wimpy Storm Hanna

* Watching tropical storm Hanna go by with no damage. The storm turned out to be pretty weak in the end, so I had no damage to my stuff :)

* Sleeping in

* Talking to my mom on the phone and finding out they are tentatively coming up for camping in mid Sept.

Helping Hands

* Taking dinner to Robby & Suzanne since they have plenty else to worry
about with the arrival of their new daughter!

* Getting to work on some other people's "Matlab puzzles" as I like to call
them.

* Starting to learn a new programming language (C#) and actually making
quite a bit of progress.

Easing into the work week

* Getting my grocery shopping done

 

* Getting to decide what I want to do next at work since there isn’t a lot that has to be done right now.  A relaxing start to a slow (in a good way) work week

 

* Chatting with people online

 

* Getting bike advice from my boss

 

* Not having things pile up after a 3 day weekend

Busy weekend...Busch Gardens Twice :)

* Going to Busch Gardens and dinner w/ Adam on Friday after leaving
early from work. That's 3 positives in one.

* Chilling on Saturday

* Getting to participate as Event Staff for the WEC groundbreaking
ceremony during which 75 people got baptized! There were
approximately 800+ people present for the single ceremony, and the
whole thing seemed to go really well :)

* Government holidays :) I love getting a 3 day weekend

* Getting my lazy self out of bed early enough on Monday to get an 8
mile bike ride in before it got too warm. I had been intending to do
it for a while, and was still willing to put it off another few days
when I first woke up, but something made me get up anyway...unusual,
but I think I know what it was

* Busch Gardens on Monday afternoon with Bill, Heidi and their ~6mo
old daughter Olivia. We rode a bunch of the rides and chatted a lot
in the process. It was a lot of fun and spontaneous on my end since I
got a message from them right after I got back from my ride.

* A fun, relaxing community group. I even hung around afterward to
chat and ended up staying until 11pm! Thats really late for me but it
was very good and something I had been wanting to do for a while.

* Being reminded that I need to keep up with this blog a bit more! I
truly have been too lazy about it recently.

Smallsat Conference, Logan Utah!

I spent last week in Logan Utah at the Smallsat conference, my first full major conference...and it was a lot of fun. Besides all the free food and learning what is currently going on in the business of small satellites, I got to go to a state I had never been to, and go hiking in the mountains! We hiked 4 miles in and 4 miles out, up 1200 feet and back down. It was very hot with little shade. Here are some pictures from the conference and hike:

The conference building:

The view from outside the conference building:The hike:


Looking back at where we came from (twice)
Water! Cold Water!