...it was arts and crafts time with the kids.

I totally almost forgot to do this today. The kids and I found these things at Target. They are little action figures (not mugz, but like them) that you get to color any way you want. So, tonight after dinner, that's exactly what we did. It was a nice thing to be able to do while watching Iron Man 2.

The little figures are pretty cool. I had fun with mine. It's been a while since I got to be creative like that in front of the kids. I keep forgetting they like to do things like that.

We spent all day together. A trip to IKEA, a little more shopping at Target. They only complained while we were waiting in line to check out, and I would too. They only had a few checkout lanes open. But it was an opportunity to spend more time with them and talk, so at least I got that out of it.

...I got to share an awesome sunset with the lady.

So, I picked up my girlfriend on the way out to get my kids tonight. Prior to leaving, she gave me my anniversary gift a few days early (Tuesday will be one year since our first date). She got me a very nice pair of sunglasses I have been looking at for a while. They are awesome. So, we hit the road, got some food and drove out to get the littles. Thanks to daylight savings time shifting the clock by an hour last weekend, I got to drive in to the sunset.

It was amazing. A giant orange ball of light that you wanted to reach out and hold just disappearing in to the trees on the horizon leaving a bloody trail of red and dark purple against a pristine clear blue sky. One would think that would be the end of it. The red and purple went away, no clouds in the sky, nothing to make the night really seem all that eventful. Then as we rounded the corner of the highway, the moon rise started. It's not too often you get to see a great sunset and then an almost full moon rise within minutes of each other.

It was a nice ride out tonight.

...this video is just damn silly. It makes me smile.

my lady and her friends are just silly when they get together, recently they decided to do a Q&A session while he was home (much better than a T&A session, that would go on a site other than youtube I think). The video I am linking is to part 2. http://goo.gl/yx3LP Check out her stuff. It's fun to watch and brightens up my day.

If she looks familiar at all, she was one of the top 10 in the Progressive HelpFlo contest last year. That might be where you have seen her.

So, go take a look, subscribe to her if you like and get updated whenever she posts more videos. Not all of them are silly though. Some of them are completely serious (see: Falling Whistles video).

...I understand things a little bit more here at work.

It's been a long ride coming over here from my last assignment. I'm finally starting to get things underway. I'm making some really good  progress as far as the daily things that need to be done, as well as the long term things that are needed to keep my team rolling and being productive. I always say that I'm not going to fail at what I do around here. And I am going to stick to that. I've even brought that in to my home life as well. No failures. But if I do, learn from it, make it a positive and move forward.

(doesn't hurt that it's amazing outside and I get to see my kids and my girlfriend today)

...I gave my employees a surprise today.

We've been using a software package for a while in an old version. It doesn't support Vista or 7, so we've been limping along. Finally, I got management to give the go ahead and it was ordered. The license showed up today and I gave them all the good news. They are, understandably, excited.