Been a busy week!

It has been a BIZZY week. Yes, I know that's a misspelling, but that's how busy it's been. B-I-Z-Z-Y. UGH!

Last Wednesday, my friend Stan's wife and two of his four children were in town...in our very own Humble, TX...and suprised us with a visit! We didn't even know they were coming this way, so B and I were so glad we didnt' have anything going...AND HAD A CLEAN HOUSE TO SHOW HER, HA!...and so we hooked up for the night, taking the kids to Chuck E Cheese, so their children could run out some energy. I don't know if that's possible in children, because they were still going strong at 10pm! It was great to see her and the kids, but I wished my boy Stan could have been with her. He had planned on it before a last minute cancellation by his boss stating that he already had the time off and needed Stan to stay and be the lone management in his area.

Then B's folks came in town last Thursday and stayed with us until this past Monday. We always have so much fun when we get together with them, and this past week was no exception! There are few people that I long to be closer to, and they're right there at the top of the list. If we ever live closer to them, I see us going out or getting together all the time. We just gel like that. While they were down here, we took them to the Houston Zoo, the Kemah Boardwalk, our Church for Easter, and then over to my mom's for Easter dinner. On Easter, my gpa gave my mother a quilt that was started by my gma (her mom) before she passed seven years ago. My uncle's fiance had a woman who quilts (a forgotten art nowadays) and she finished something that I guess usually can take years to do, in a few months, and didn't want any money for it except for what the supplies cost (totalling $50!). What a blessing. And what an amazing experience to witness when my mom was given it. I will forever remember that moment, and B got some amazing pictures. I have a pic of the quilt below. It was a blast, and the time flew by fast, but only because we DID have so much fun. Belinda has a bunch of pics on her blog, so I decided to only put up pics that I personally took on my camera phone. That being said, they're not all the best, but they're still good enough. I'll have those later below. As well as pics I forgot to put on here, showing some of the fun I had at work grilling for the station's staff luncheon celebrating the opening of the Houston Rodeo. It was a blast to get paid to grill for four hours! ;)

At work, my manager and cohort in crime, Brent, was in Nigeria on our yearly station trip to another station over there that we partnered with. We helped set them up a few years ago, and go over yearly, at least, to help fix issues, show them tips, do some training, and upgrade equipment/software. They wanted me to go this year, but this year's trip was a little longer than normal, so both B & I decided it wasn't a good idea. She knows I really would love to go see that, and so hopefully I can work it out next year. We'll see. God will make a way if it's something He wants me to do, so I'm not worried about it. It's been quiet here at the office with them gone, but the work hasn't slowed down. As with any radio station, we have to pay royalties to the artists we play. We needed to upgrade our software to a more accurate program, as the RIAA couldn't get enough information to verify if we were legit in our documented playings. This, in theory, should have been a very easy "upgrade". It was far from it though. I won't bore you with the IT side of things, but lets just say that the outcome was that I had to completely overhaul the original thought process of it all, and four days later am finally finished with a working product. The software still needs to be installed, but with what we have now (and $1500 of the company's money later), it "should" (says another prayer) go through smoothly. It's one of those things that you HATE going through, but afterwards you realized how much you just learned. Good stuff, but just wish I wouldn't go through anxiety attacks when I learn that stuff! :)

Today, my boss's boss and I had to go over to Level 3, which is basically a building that houses tons and tons and tons of servers. It's a state of the art facility that can withstand almost everything except a nuclear explosion, and has high security to even get in to. I've been there before with Brent, so that I could know where it's at, where our remote servers are (that's where we have our music servers that people listen to when they go to our stream on the web to hear our music... www.ksbj.org ). But now I have my own access and don't have to depend on him to get me in there. *insert maniacal laugh* FEEL THE POWER!!! HA!


Anyway, have a great weekend, and here are the pics I know you're dying to see...

Tired and waiting for the kids to turn in their tickets to get dumb toys that they'll lose/forget about before we get home. Oh well, it's for the kids. And we all enjoyed these places when we were kids, so it was worth it.

Pooped from the zoo

Kemah Boardwalk

I absolutely LOVE this pic. B looks all cute-like, just enjoying the day with me and our fam. It was a PERFECT day to be there, and just hot enough to get wet and enjoy it.

Grill out time! This is John Ritter, one of our Engineer's at the station.

This is Don Chapman, another Engineer at the station, and Susan O'Donnell. Susan is our main morning show DJ, and probably the single biggest reason, we are the blessed dominating station that we are.

Don is an AMAZING cook!

This pic doesn't give his pepper-crusted brisket justice. It is AMAZING, people. Seriously!