Here’s a go at some sunflowers…

I wanted to experiment with brush strokes ala Van Gogh….

Well needless to say I have been away from you for a while now. I have missed posting to my blog but DUDE have I been busy doing other things.

I may have told you before that we are building a new hospital….well we are starting to move this month. So imagine moving an entire hospital to an entirely new building half a mile away. This is a seven story building…not a clinic…not a wee little place. This is a building full of patients and hundreds of employees. Since I am in the computer dork department and everything in this place is run by computers you can see that we have a rather large role in this endeavor. On top of that we are moving to a new network environment which probably means nothing to most of you but my computer nerd buddies can appreciate it. We are moving from a static IP environment to a DHCP environment. It’s a lot of nonsense I won’t bore you with but I can assure you that it is a lot of work and will mean a lot of late hours in the coming weeks. This is part of the reason I took this job so I really can’t complain. The experience of this move will fit quite nicely on my resume. I don’t see me needing it any time soon but still a nice feather to have in your cap.

The bright spot in this is that I will FINALLY have my own office! No more sharing! I can listen to music without wearing headphones and I can hang stuff on the wall like my framed antique Texas map which my in-laws gave me (love it) and my Van Gogh Starry Night poster. I even think there is room above the door on the inside of my office to hang my seven foot long Michael Jordan poster. My buddy Chris gave it to me for Christmas and it is awesome!

Besides the hospital move I have been trying to get Chris’s website finished and live and it looks like we are finally there. It might need a few more tweaks… He’ll be able to accept credit cards online soon but right now you can still use PayPal to buy shoes. I’m happy with the way it turned out.

So get out of here and go to the Shoelab and buy some cool shoes. I have a pair of these and they are my favorite sneakers right now. They are light as a feather!

Oh! I forgot to update you on my injury. I have a stress fracture in my ankle. I guess I pushed it a little to hard training for Bandera. That’ll set me back about 6 or more weeks in running and I am itching to get back out there so I hope it heals up fast. It really only hurts when I exercise or after exercising so I hate it because I feel pretty good right now but I know I need to listen to the doc and take it easy.

I do hope to start posting more often again.