Blogger Jail

It's been so long since I've posted I should probably be thrown in blogger jail...or at least be given a blogger fine.

Last week was one of the busiest weeks of work for me. Thursday was the first annual "Nerdstock 2008". Now what in the world is Nerdstock you might ask? It's an event that myself and a co-worker of mine put together to bring the Software Development Community of 3M together. We had Anush Kumar the lead Software Architect of Microsoft's BizTalk RFID Framework here to present for the keynote and then following his presentation we had 4 break-out sessions on various software technologies or methodologies. We had about 90 people show up in person, which doesn't include the other 10-15 people that called into the keynote and break-out sessions. We had been planning the event for about 6 months and it was a huge success! But getting ready was very time consuming not to mention getting my "real" work done as well. We've had phenomenal feedback from the nerds of 3M on the event though so it makes it worth all the extra work.

Congratulations Mike and Debbie! Friday they closed on their first house...well it's really more of a cabin, but it's their first mortgage payment! It definitely needs a lot of work, but it's so cute and you can really see the potential. Mike does such great work he'll have that place shined up in no time! I do have pictures of it, but I forgot my camera cord at home so I can't download them at work. I'll try to do it tonight. The beach area by the lake needs a little TLC but again Debbie and Mikey will have it looking great in no time. One extra thing Mike and Deb didn't realize they would be getting with the house...a cat in the attic. That's right I said a cat! When they got there Friday and looked around in the attic they found a cat. The previous owners were in their 70's so we're thinking they just left it there, but we're not sure. There is a cat door on the house so the previous owners had to have a cat at some point. We tried all weekend long to get the cat out to no avail. Hopefully it will come down someday...

Brian and Mike worked on removing dead trees and brush from the cabin all weekend. Logan and Mom spent some quality time at home just hanging out and cleaning up a little bit. Last night was the last regular season game for softball. We won 20 - 10. Next week starts playoff so wish us luck...

This weekend is the annual Camp Croix vacation! I'm so excited! It's Logan's first trip to Camp Croix and I have to be honest I'm a little nervous for how it's going to go. I'm sure he'll be fine, and there's lots of family around to help. We're leaving Wednesday afternoon and not coming back until Sunday. By then I'm sure I'll have a ton to post about with lots of pictures. Wednesday is Debbie and Stella's birthdays. I can't believe it's been a year already since Stella was born! Sunday they're having a party for her (and Debbie) so that will be fun! And I'll have pics of that to share as well.

I suppose though you're probably sick of me blogging about nothing in particular at all so I'll sign off. Happy Monday!

Oh and I guess the other exciting thing is I cut my hair off. Jody calls the cut the "Jenny McCarthy Cut" see below. Jody I LOVE it! Thank You! You do a WAY better job than Brian with the clippers! ;-)