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Hi All,
I’m sitting in the Lander Household at 1313 Tanager Lane (part true and part Munster’s humor) and a little more than midway through the Holiday season. While most people returned to work yesterday, Maggie and I have the fortunate ability to work remotely. This allows us to spend time with family and remain up to date with the on-going struggles of the working world.
As for the Holidays, I managed to split my time between my family and Maggie’s by spending the week leading up to Christmas with my family and spending the week following Christmas leading up to New Years with Maggie’s.
The Holiday Season with my family included all the last minute Christmas (and returning home) Traditions like shopping, binging on my favorite hometown cuisine, homemade pizza, the annual family Christmas Eve Bash, Christmas Morning Gifts, and Dad’s big breakfast.
After opening gifts on Christmas Morning and consuming massive amounts of carbohydrate filled and calorie laced foods, Maggie and I loaded the sleigh, reigned up the horses, and went jingle belling all the way to the Pennsylvania House where we unloaded the sleigh and traveled a few more miles to the Lander House for Christmas dinner. Dinner consisted of a lovely Christmas spread centered on the main entrée of Turkey. Due to an over-abundance of Rye Bread, we made a last minute judgment call to modify the dinner from Turkey to Turkey Sandwiches. Christmas Festivities continued to December 26th with the arrival of Maggie’s sister and niece that evening and the opening of Secret Santa gifts.
In the gift department, I think I did some pretty good giving and some super good receiving. I came out of the holiday with almost everything on my list and a little more (rye bread). My parents came down the Saturday following Christmas to spend the day with Maggie and I and to have dinner with Maggie’s family.
Now I’m working (remotely) my way to New Years before heading to Albany for a New Year’s Eve Party. We’ll be driving back to PA the next morning and hopefully meeting up with some friends at our house in PA.
I hope everyone is having a Joyous holiday season.
Ryan.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Monday Monday 12.7.2008
Happy Monday Everyone,
The past couple of weeks have been eventful to say the least.
On November 21, I took my last call at the NAVY ERP Help Desk. After dutifully answering help desk tickets for the past year, I finally moved over to the integration side of the project. This means that I can now get involved with the implementation of SAP instead of dealing with post production support. I welcome the new role for the benefits it provides both to my career and to my sanity. I don’t want to belittle the Help Desk Experience because in a short term situation, I needed it to get the broad far-reaching understanding of our solution. Now I take on the challenge of specialization with a strong foundation in the most basic aspects of all areas related to the NAVY solution.
So that’s work. Things are looking up.
Since my last communiqué, the Thanksgiving holiday came and went. This year Maggie and I stayed home and family came to us. We had a collection of 6 people staying with us at our little Townhouse in South Carolina (plus Maggie and I totals out at 8), and we certainly enjoyed their company. The group consisted of Victoria and Steve from Tennessee, Maggie’s parents from Florida, Aunt Renie from New York, and Christian from Utah. In other words, people traveled from every state in the union to dine at our table for six.
The Black Friday adventures qualify for the Record Book. I think we had a contest to see if we could outspend the nation’s GDP and if my calculations are correct. . . .we missed it by only a few dollars. Don’t worry though because in our true selfless fashion for every one gift purchased for someone else. . . we bought six for ourselves. The ratio might be just a wee bit off. . . .it’s probably more like 1:1.
Skipping ahead, we spent this weekend at our House in Pennsylvania. My friend Timmy from college came down with his girlfriend Lindsay. We played games, walked the cross-country trails, and spent the time eating junk food and catching up. The leaking washing machine made for the most significant adventure as I had to play doctor/mechanic/plumber/referee between myself and the washing machine that almost went flying through the windows. Not that the washing machine did anything to warrant my heaving it through the windows, but I was plenty mad at the situation. Come to find out, we simply had a leaky hose. I replaced it with one of those heavy duty ones that can also be used for a weapon if you’re ever hiding out behind the washing machine waiting for some evil villain to come within striking distance. . . .crisis averted.
All else is quiet! Have A Great Week!
Ryan
The past couple of weeks have been eventful to say the least.
On November 21, I took my last call at the NAVY ERP Help Desk. After dutifully answering help desk tickets for the past year, I finally moved over to the integration side of the project. This means that I can now get involved with the implementation of SAP instead of dealing with post production support. I welcome the new role for the benefits it provides both to my career and to my sanity. I don’t want to belittle the Help Desk Experience because in a short term situation, I needed it to get the broad far-reaching understanding of our solution. Now I take on the challenge of specialization with a strong foundation in the most basic aspects of all areas related to the NAVY solution.
So that’s work. Things are looking up.
Since my last communiqué, the Thanksgiving holiday came and went. This year Maggie and I stayed home and family came to us. We had a collection of 6 people staying with us at our little Townhouse in South Carolina (plus Maggie and I totals out at 8), and we certainly enjoyed their company. The group consisted of Victoria and Steve from Tennessee, Maggie’s parents from Florida, Aunt Renie from New York, and Christian from Utah. In other words, people traveled from every state in the union to dine at our table for six.
The Black Friday adventures qualify for the Record Book. I think we had a contest to see if we could outspend the nation’s GDP and if my calculations are correct. . . .we missed it by only a few dollars. Don’t worry though because in our true selfless fashion for every one gift purchased for someone else. . . we bought six for ourselves. The ratio might be just a wee bit off. . . .it’s probably more like 1:1.
Skipping ahead, we spent this weekend at our House in Pennsylvania. My friend Timmy from college came down with his girlfriend Lindsay. We played games, walked the cross-country trails, and spent the time eating junk food and catching up. The leaking washing machine made for the most significant adventure as I had to play doctor/mechanic/plumber/referee between myself and the washing machine that almost went flying through the windows. Not that the washing machine did anything to warrant my heaving it through the windows, but I was plenty mad at the situation. Come to find out, we simply had a leaky hose. I replaced it with one of those heavy duty ones that can also be used for a weapon if you’re ever hiding out behind the washing machine waiting for some evil villain to come within striking distance. . . .crisis averted.
All else is quiet! Have A Great Week!
Ryan
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