Grandma Russell's 86th Birthday Party

We went down to Houston to celebrate with Grandma Russell because she turned 86 years young. It was great to see everyone there.

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Big News!

As Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth would say... "Good news everyone!!!"

I have accepted a new opportunity with Halliburton.  I start on Feb 18th, and I am very excited about it.  At the same time I am very sad to leave my current company, AMX.  AMX has been a wonderful place to work, and I am  going to miss my team very much.  We have accomplished quite a bit in the two years I've been there.  The application we have been working on is quite polished and will release to the customer within a few months.  

The new opportunity at Halliburton comes with some exciting new challenges, and some very impressive teammates.  I can't wait to dig in with these guys and sling some code around.   

Changing jobs is a scary thing for me.  I have good and bad experiences doing it in the past, as I'm sure a lot of people have.  In my experience, my new jobs have been either super duper awesome, or a complete nightmare.
I have a feeling that Halliburton won't be a nightmare. 

If you're reading this, and you're family, please take this time to give some hugs to all my other family members for me.  

Thanks!

The old blogger site is back

Over the last two years, I haven't blogged at all.  I used to be pretty active in blogging my family activities before there was Facebook and Google+.  I resisted moving to these platforms, but when people like my mom and aunt got a Facebook account, I realized I was being pretty stubborn by having my own blog that duplicated what I could be doing on Facebook.

I never really like using Facebook.  Not sure why.  I just didn't get into it.  Then Google+ came along, and I got into that right away.  

Today I learned that Google is adding integration points between Google+ and their old Blogger service.  I used to use Blogger several years ago, but it gave way to my own WordPress site sometime during 2006.  Then after a few years using WordPress, I just lost interest in keeping up with a blog all together.

Anyway.  Long story short.  I'm gonna use Blogger again for a while and see if it holds my interest.  

We'll see how it goes.

Very First Baseball Game

Kevin's First Baseball Game

My cousin Kevin and his family came down to visit over Labor Day weekend. Kevin had never been to a Texas Rangers game, much less any major league baseball game, so I asked my boss for the sweet company tickets.

After it was all said and done, we had a pretty awesome day together. We went to see downtown Fort Worth and had lunch at Razoos. Then we went to the Fort Worth Stockyards and saw some really cool stuff. Then it was off to the see the Rangers.

Look what I found

I was just browsing around Blinda's computer, and I found some pictures that had been transfered from the camera to her 'My Pictures' directory. The pictures did not look familiar to me, and that's because they never made it onto the web site. So, being the diligent father that I once hope to be someday... huh???.... I put the pictures in their appropiate spot. I put them in an album called 'January' in the Year 2005 category, since that was when they were taken.

January 2005