Archive for April, 2004

Had a short (45 minute) opening session to the company meeting at the McKimmon Center on NCSU campus in Raleigh. Then loaded up on 12 charter busses and drove to Wilmington. Each of the busses was a particular team (like our bus was China). Each bus then devided their participants into 4 different teams. Once we got to Wilmington, the four teams from each bus went to different areas and we all competed in a particular event. There was a downtown Wilmington scavenger hunt, a track and field ‘Lympics, a contest to see which team could create the best 30 second TV ad, and a competition to see which team could create the best race car out of the materials supplied. I was on the China ‘Lympics team. We didn’t do to bad. We don’t actually know how we scored on any of the individual competitions, but China came in 3rd overall, so I guess that isn’t too bad After the competition, we all loaded onto a big riverboat in Wilmington and went out on the river for dinner and drinks. Didn’t get back to Raleigh until 10:30 last night. I was *tired*.

Time to leave for day 3 in a few minutes. Today, meetings all day long until we head out to a night club tonight. I’m wondering if anyone will do a pole dance like Steve Coile did about 4 years ago

Yesterday evening was the kickoff event to the meeting. We flew all the engineers into Raleigh so that we could all meet face to face. Last night was the opening social thing, just drinks, music, and visiting with people from all over the world Today is some super-duper secret event that I won’t know about until I get there. Tomorrow is breakout sessions on various topics during the early part of the day, followed by a long departmental breakout. Tuesday is one final department breakout, then a farewell lunch, then I’m finally free again. Whew! Gonna be busy. And during all of this…Jessica’s ovulating! I should be here having fun instead of stuck at the office from 9am-10pm each day!

Time for me to go back on diet and try to take off some of the pounds that have crept back on since the holiday season came through. It’s not too bad, I’m at about 173 or so when my ideal is around 160. But, that means going back on Atkin’s diet again. I started that (sorta) today. One of the requirements for the diet is no caffiene. I tried to go without it entirely this morning. I took a mid-morning 3 hour nap as a result. So, I just now made me a latte with a shot of regular espresso and 3 shots decaf espresso. Maybe that one shot will help me stay away long enough to mow the yard

I got this in an email. I have to keep a record of it somewhere because it was so damn funny I almost fell over!

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