Sorry it took me so long to say so, but we enthusiastically welcome you home Michael.
Our first day back to work, and we're still on the love parade!
Just wanted to thank you all for a spectacular weekend. We love you all.
I wrote this short poem for Mrs Valdez's scroll she plans to give attendees to the wedding. I wanted you guys to see it as well. I attempted to work in many of the features of the chapel.
Hear the vows of love Ringing!
Ringing through the airy walls of the chapel
Ringing across the bubbling fountain
Ringing down the dusty rocks of the canyon
Hear the great bell of Dulcinea Ringing out Love!
Thank you for helping us put it in motion
We wish you love
We can't wait to see your smiling face, covered in snow cone, back in Austin.
I also heard some commentary this morning on NPR regarding Veteran's or Armistice Day. The most striking statement was regarding the first Armistice Day during WWI.
As the men climbed out of their rat infested fox holes, during the 11th month, on the 11 day, and the 11 hour of 1918, they found their enemy who looked and were think exactly what they were.
We love you Uncle Michael and can't wait for your return. I've found several thoughtful quotes for your birthday. Have a great day!
"No wise man ever wished to be younger." Jonathan Swift
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror." Ken Keyes Jr.
Here's a wikipedia link for Mr. Keyes, not sure what he's about, but I like the sound of Living Love.
I found this quote in my news reader this morning. It reminded of my sister, and I even bet Christian can relate.
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Since I've been so busy at work lately, I've had no time to post new blog stories. So, I sent this message to my team this morning, bragging about Isaac. I think you might be interested.
I had an experience last night with my son, Isaac, which I think could provide some relevance to our task here at work.
Each week, the teacher sends home a review of what they are going to cover during the coming week. This week, they are going to learn graphing. Since Maersk has helped me become very efficient at creating graphs, I created an Excel worksheet which we converted to a graph, so that we could discuss the subject.
Our worksheet analyzed people in our family, and their ages. Relative age seems to be a difficult subject in my child's mind, and I was thinking a graph would help his understanding. So we reviewed bar graphs, noting that the older someone was, the taller their line was. Then we converted it to a pie graph, noting that the older person always had the larger piece of pie.
Then came the $60,000 question at the end of our informal lesson, "What if both people have the same sized pie piece." His unaided response brought tears to my eyes, "They would be the same age." A budding critical thinker, I'm so proud.
Driving into work this morning, I thought this lesson gave an analogy to our work here. Not to say that our customers have the technical understanding of a 5 year old; however, we have a great deal of knowledge to share with our customers. Maersk has given us skills which other parts of our organization have little to no understanding. We should take advantage of these skills to provide our customers insight to their own business units, which they never thought possible.
I realize it’s a little corny for Monday morning, but I wanted to brag. Have a good Monday!
He was very exciting about competing, and we've had great fun practicing before leaving for school. He taught me to turn my hips when punching, what a great teacher!
I sent this to my group this afternoon. i couldn't past level 6, and was interested in what some real typers could do like Mom and Grandma.
Hope you guys have a good weekend.
Sorry for lack of input lately, work has been calling.
Here's the chappel we're looking at
I was explaining to Michael, the meaning of Dulcinea in Don Quixote. I also asked him to hurry home.
Dulcinea is the object of affection for Don Quixote during his quests. Every deed, every journey and every quest is made in her name.
A web site describes Dulcinea "... in the tradition of the epic journey motif. For Odysseus his Penelope, Aeneas his Latinia, Dante his Beatrice and Don Quixote his Dulcinea."
I found this article today on Wired magazine. It describes some satellite watching as an extreme sport?!?
Here's a web site, Heavens Above, which automatically calculates which stellites are visible from any location in the world.
Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, next to the Lebanese border, Monday, July 17, 2006.
Here's the photo set, some of the 93 pics are still sideways, but Denise is working on it in her recovery and we thought you would enjoy the show anyway.
We had such a tremendous time, just being with our family. One thing we didn't get a picture of is the space station. Seeing the space station three times was incredible, and Isaac has even developed an interest in astronomy because of it (Thank you Mr. Brough).
The other high point was our fishing expedition. Who knew catching basketfulls of tiny little fish could be so much fun. Some of us, Faith, even had a great time catching worms.
Thank you Nancy for getting this all together for us. What a blast.
Space Shuttle Discovery landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at 9:14 a.m. EDT on Monday, July 17. During the nearly 13-day mission, the STS-121 crew tested new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, and delivered supplies and made repairs to the International Space Station.
