From last Monday to today, I have had one interesting week, one that I shouldn’t forget anytime soon. There was so much going on but I think I will only talk about what I thought was interesting. To start off, last Monday was the last day I got chance to work with a good friend of mine name Wolfgang Spreen. Wolfgang had been with the company for over 5 years and I believe the God has showed him another direction to go with his life. I was real sad about that because Wolfgang had always been the guy that made my job more enjoyable and fun. I love my job anyway, but he made it better. Most people here at the center probably don’t know that he is one of the funniest people I have ever been around. I think everyone needs someone like that in any job. However he also took his job seriously, wasn’t always all jokes. Wolfgang could do it all. Since I came aboard, he had several jobs that he was doing. He spent a lot of time working with the Buildings and Grounds department, a tour guide for any new folks who haven’t seen the center, our mail man, and 10% in Information Services where he took care of ordering our print cartridges and toner, and took care of our daily backup tapes of our server. He also spent a lot of time working with the Health and Safety committee. And he also made our weekly “Simply News” newsletter. The man did it all. That was some of the things was doing when I got there until now. He was doing more that that way before that. I just want to take the time and show some respect to the man who made an influence in my life since day one of my project and to let people know that if there were a lot more people like Wolfgang in this world, we would be much better off. He might one day read this and get on me about my punctuation on this blog, LOL. Anyway, I am going to miss him a lot and wish him the best of luck on the future and what his next plans are.
The rest of the week, Francie and I spent time preparing for the Mission and Ministry Board meeting that took place Friday through today. I enjoyed preparing for it because I felt we got a lot of things accomplished. We set up a room for one of the Elgin staff members to work out of. Then we went and built an Internet café for some of the board that didn’t travel with their laptops. They can get online as well as print documents from a printer we installed. We also installed a laptop in the auditorium room so people can show their presentations on. The meeting went real well. I enjoyed seeing a few people from Elgin, who I haven’t seen since I been there last year. The meals were goods, the host and the BSC staff did a great job organizing the weekend, and to me it felt like a successful few days. If this is my final board meeting, I am glad it was in New Windsor. Elgin is pretty cool, but New Windsor for the past two years is my home away from home.
A funny thing happen to me today. I got my $40.00 coupon for the digital converter box I purchased last month. When I applied to get this coupon before I bought the box, the government said they ran out of coupons, that there were no funds available at the time. I thought ,“alright, I bought it at full price at $50.00, whatever”. Now after over a month of using this box, I finally get my coupon. Can you believe it? Not like its going to do me any good any more. Now I think, “at least I got now”.
I am on day 8 of my 12 days in a row working. Last time I done this was the first time I went to Elgin. For some reason, I am a bit more tired this time around. I think I will be OK but I think at the end of the week I will be really tired, LOL. HAHA. Nah, for real, I think its cool that I worked 12 days because I’m not really used to it and it made me think I can do it again a few more times if I am needed for that again.
I’ll be back over the weekend!
The rest of the week, Francie and I spent time preparing for the Mission and Ministry Board meeting that took place Friday through today. I enjoyed preparing for it because I felt we got a lot of things accomplished. We set up a room for one of the Elgin staff members to work out of. Then we went and built an Internet café for some of the board that didn’t travel with their laptops. They can get online as well as print documents from a printer we installed. We also installed a laptop in the auditorium room so people can show their presentations on. The meeting went real well. I enjoyed seeing a few people from Elgin, who I haven’t seen since I been there last year. The meals were goods, the host and the BSC staff did a great job organizing the weekend, and to me it felt like a successful few days. If this is my final board meeting, I am glad it was in New Windsor. Elgin is pretty cool, but New Windsor for the past two years is my home away from home.
A funny thing happen to me today. I got my $40.00 coupon for the digital converter box I purchased last month. When I applied to get this coupon before I bought the box, the government said they ran out of coupons, that there were no funds available at the time. I thought ,“alright, I bought it at full price at $50.00, whatever”. Now after over a month of using this box, I finally get my coupon. Can you believe it? Not like its going to do me any good any more. Now I think, “at least I got now”.
I am on day 8 of my 12 days in a row working. Last time I done this was the first time I went to Elgin. For some reason, I am a bit more tired this time around. I think I will be OK but I think at the end of the week I will be really tired, LOL. HAHA. Nah, for real, I think its cool that I worked 12 days because I’m not really used to it and it made me think I can do it again a few more times if I am needed for that again.
I’ll be back over the weekend!
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