This weekend I’m playing catchup.  The past week was crazy!  At work I was busting my butt to get out the new documentation for our recent release of MindTouch Deki Kilen Woods.  I have to say, it turned out great.  Check it out for yourself.  I’m going to be working hard on the rest of the User Manual to make sure it is coherent and clean.  Besides the release, I’ve been working on setting up Loopfuse, which is a cool marketing/sales tool.  This will supplement a lot of our workflows in SalesForce, so it is taking me a bit of time to make sure I cover all areas.  It will be a learning process.

I was also fortunate enough to have Pam’s family come out and visit.  It was great.  Every night we went out and had a good time.  Last night we went to the House of Blues and saw Wild Child, a doors cover band.  They were a good cover band and I had a blast.  I was very fortunate to go to the House of Blues as I found out that White Lion will be playing there on October 14th!  I’m a huge White Lion fan and am stoked to go see them.

If I have spare time I’m going to dive back into my side php/MySQL project I’m working on.

My brother, the entreprenuerial artist, was featured in a local paper in Indiana.  It is really great to see the progress he has made as I’ve been there working hard with him to improve his business.  I’m in the process of redesigning his website, which I hope to have launched in the next couple of weeks.

Dell is now selling the Inspiron mini 9, which is a mini notebook with solid state drives and with the base model having Ubuntu pre-installed.  With all options the top price is $494, this includes:

• 1 GB of RAM
• integrated Webcam and Bluetooth
• 16 GB Solid State Hard Drive
• Intel^® Atom^TM Processor (1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)

If you don’t want Ubuntu, you can get the Elusive Windows XP.  Not a bad deal.

Happy Labor Day everyone! Hope you are enjoying a labor free day and taking a chance to chill.  This weekend has been great.  Pam and I have been preparing for her parents and sister to come, so we’ve been cleaning and running errands.  It is cool to see the color of my carpet again :)  This have been crazy at work.  We should be coming out with Kilen Woods in the week to come and included with that is the new Control Panel documentation that I’ve been working on.  After I release the new Control Panel documentation then I’m going to work on the main user manual and update that.  On the side I’ve been helping out my brother with his websites.  It is exciting because he will be coming out with a new property soon(can’t say yet) which will expand his presence online and will be starting email marketing, which will help him with  brand awareness and repeat business.

For fun on the side I’m working on a website that is php on the front end and MySQL on the backend to hone my programming skills.  I’ll update you more as I start having a working model.  This week will be fun though with pam’s family in town, in fact I’m going to take a half day from work on Wednesday to chill.  Looking forward to it.

Today I am going to start training for competing in Discus. I used to throw Discus in High School and loved the sport. In college I didn’t throw for the team. I’m now going to get back into throwing shape and start competing at Open Track and Field events. I’m super stoked about it and look forward to getting in shape for it. Currently my work outs consist of 40 min weight training. This will be extended and will focus more on my Core along with putting emphasis on my shoulders (I separated both shoulders playing football). It is great to have motivation again for working out and to have goals I can reach. As I start competing I will post my results here.