Rachel had a meeting tonight to plan her primary program. I had a good night with the kids. I helped Gehrig & Nolan clean up all their toys and then read them a book. Gracie was good to get herself ready for bed and clean her room. I then put on the primary CD. It seemed to help quite a bit from previous nights. I had to play it twice through before Nolan finally fell asleep. All 3 kids were asleep by 8:30. Ahhh!
This afternoon as I was working on got an instant message from Mike letting me know that I just received a full paycheck bonus for the work I had done and help with convention. It was quite the pleasant surprise to say the least!
I also had a new user subscribe to use Inzolo. I was telling a friend that it must be my lucky day. Now I think it really is. I just noticed the permalink for this post. This is post #777. It really is my lucky day!!!
Today was a good productive day at work. I left a bit earlier than I expected to. Mike wasn’t feeling well. He said he wasn’t planning on going in tomorrow. He also said that I could just work from home. I’m excited for the chance to do so. I hope to do well to show that I can still accomplish a lot even from home. I also plan on going to the temple in the morning because I haven’t been since I started this new job.
I woke up at 5:15 this morning for meetings. I was about to get into the shower. I was so tired I wished I could just go back to bed. I then realized that it was fast Sunday. I only had one meeting and I could go back to bed! That extra hour was exactly what I needed.
I taught elders quorum today on finances. I didn’t really use any notes that I had other than some highlight areas of the One for the Money pamphlet. I think it went rather well. Generally I like a lot of discussion in my lessons but it wasn’t really the case for this lesson. I prayed for the Spirit to be with me and just tried to follow the Spirit as I taught. I was glad for the opportunity. I always enjoy teaching on the topic of personal finance.
Shortly after going to bed last night Nolan woke up crying. I was so tired and he wouldn’t calm down so I finally laid down in his bed next to him. We both fell asleep pretty quickly.
At around 12:50 AM Rachel brought my cell phone in and said I had just missed a call. My boss had called to let me know there was a problem with some code that had been moved live. I couldn’t do much about it from home because of my current setup, so I just decided to go in. Mike A. said I could just pick him up on the way he so he would be with me so I did. I thought that was nice of him. He hadn’t had any sleep because he had to stay up until midnight and move all the latest changes onto the live server.
Once I got in the office it took about 20 minutes to fix my changes. I just hung out there and played on my new MacBook. I did take a short nap around 7:30 and left for the Salt Palace at 8:00.
The convention was fun. I was so impressed at the great amount of work that went into the presentation our CTO gave this morning. I was also impressed with the people. They are so excited about this company. When they announced the new search feature on the card catalog people went crazy cheering for it. It feels so good to be a part of something that people are so passionate about.
I started getting pretty tired after lunch. I also remembered that I needed to prepare a lesson for elders quorum this Sunday. Mike W. gave me the key to his hotel room. I went and prepared my lesson then took a nap on his bed until about 4:45. That refreshed me. I was supposed to help with office tours from 3:30 to 8:00 pm. Mike told me not to worry about it due to getting in so early. So I left the Salt Palace at 5 pm and drove to Kearns for my nephews 1st birthday party. It was a fun night there with family.
All in all it was a busy and memorable day.
Today was an interesting day. I got a phone call last night from Mike. One of our web guys that is responsible for running slides backstage was sick so he wanted me to fill in for him. So I got to the Salt Palace at 7:00. It turned out that the decided to use Steve who had experience doing this backstage work. It wasn’t difficult. The only thing that caused me concern was that everything was done on Macintosh. I’m not familiar with Mac OS, so if there was any editing that needed to be done there may be a learning curve involved. Interestingly enough, I got my Macbook in the mail today and I’m writing this post on it. So basically I sat in as backup and just watched what was going on all day. It was pretty interesting – and a bit boring at times. I was able to get home by 5pm tonight which was great. We watched a movie with the kids, then watched some season premier shows we are interested in.
Convention has started for our company. Today I helped out with tours of our office. I sat in the programming area and talked to groups as they came through. It is fun to meet people who really appriciate the work you do. It’s also fun to see so many excited about the overall work your company does.
Today Mike (my boss) gave us all gym bags and gym memberships as a gift to say thanks for the work and overtime we’ve been putting in to get ready for convention. He also gave us all hand-written cards which was a nice gesture (and appropriate for where we work)
Gehrig refused to take a bite of dinner tonight so we sent him to bed early. We then had a dilemma. After dinner it was time for family home evening. So we took the lesson to him. We had FHE in his room. The lesson was on prayer. I think it was a memorable experience if nothing else 
Today was a fairly busy day at church. I prefer that to the alternative. I enjoy feeling useful. I loaned a copy of Total Money Makeover to a counselor in the elders quorum presidency. He returned it today and then called me tonight to teach next weeks lesson in elders quorum on the topic of personal finance and budgeting. It’s not new to me since I’ve taught a few of these lessons in our last ward and I obviously enjoy the topic.