house for sale

So I spent $50 bucks at Lowe's to get a bunch of signs to hang around town this week. The signs I bought allowed mt to put our house on the Internet at no charge. Check it out here. If anyone is looking for a house in Sioux City let me know.

Flights

So I am doing these posts in the wrong order. Deal with it. I have to tell you how bad the flight to and from Denver was this past week. It felt like United Airlines put me in a bag and beat me with a baseball bat for an hour each way. It was dreadful. I was within about an inch of throwing up on the way back Thursday night. Not to mention that both flights were very late because of plane issues and all that kind of stuff. A week ago I made the same flight on Frontier and it was fine. Probably why United announced a 152 million dollar loss for the quarter. They sucked.

First full day on the job

Friday was the first full day at the new job. One of my coaches took a job on the Operations side of the house so I will be hiring a new coach soon. I spent the day trying to figure out who will be the best person to fill in as an in-charge while I interview and hire. I also spent a majority of the day meeting people saying hi and learning what they do. I am currently reading the book The First 90 Days. It talks about how to make the first 90 days of a new job really count. It has some great information at the beginning about learning the culture and environment of your new job. It has a bunch of great questions to ask those that have been around too. I plan to start having one- on - ones with my direct reports here in the next week. Start developing and building relationships. Friday went so fast it felt like I was at work for 15 minutes.

Open House

Tiff and the kids are still in Utah. I am glad that they have extra time to spend with family and cousins. I miss them.
Today we had an Open House. We had about a dozen visitors. That is not that many. Sunday's are really the day most people go to Open Houses around here. The house down the street has an Open House tomorrow too. Hopefully this place sells fast. I want to get down to Omaha as soon as possible. With the road construction between here and there it is taking 2 hours to make the drive. That is too long. Not to mention the gas. I am thinking that the $53.99 Motel 6 might be cheaper then coming home every night. I am going to fill up the tank on my truck today and then crunch the numbers.

Denver

Hello out there from Denver Colorado. I am currently there for a Qwest Leadership Training. It has been pretty good. We have discussed Qwest Finances and Ethics so far today. I met a few people that I had only met on the phone and conference calls before. That was cool.
Yesterday was my first day at the new job. I met all the coaches and consultants. Then left for Denver. I am excited to get going and start making a difference.
I miss my family. They are still in SLC hanging out until August 10 or 20. I think I am going to go to the store and buy them a souvenir. Go Colorado Rockies!!

Open House part 1

Today we had the first Open House to try and sell our place by owner. It went well. We had a dozen people stop by. They all thought the house looked great. A couple of those people were repeat visitors so I tried to get my sell on. Didn't work today but they will be back.
Before the Open house I talked the Missionaries into helping me stain my deck. It looks great. They were still working on it when the Open House started. They saved my bacon so thank you to the Elders who helped out. Other then that I am attempting to keep the house clean for tomorrows open house.
I just talked to Tiff and she went to the Family Reunion for my family. She deserves a parade or a National Holiday in her honor for doing that. I am going to start working on that now.

links of the day

Check out this story on Missionaries for the Church. Crazy stuff.

I always try to read the news of the Weird each week. People are nuts.

Here is a hilarious You Tube video mocking Akon and T-Pain because they sound similar.

You might know I am a huge You Tube fan. Here is a hilarious Will Farrell video. That is Will Farrell's daughter. She will need a ton of therapy when she's older.

I need a vacation from my vacation!

Today was a day spent makig sure the house is ready for the 2 Open Houses we have this weekend. I trimmed and mowed the lawn and then pulled all the weeds throughout the flower beds. I fixed the closet doors and added pull knobs to the doors. I calked the wall by the stairs and then added cement caulk on the front porch where the stairs have settled. I had to clean some of the carpets again. I hung the door to the basement. I also fixed the refrigerator that begun to leak. I created the paper about the house for the Open House. I stained part of the deck. The missionaries are coming over tomorrow at 10am to help me finish the deck. And I did 4 loads of laundry on top of that. I need to go to work so I can get some down time.
I am traveling to Denver for 4 days next week for work. hopefully i can get a little reading in and relax some.
My wife and kids stayed in Utah while I start the new job and sell the house. I miss my wife and kids. I could always count on one of them to make me smile if I needed it.

The Dark Knight

So, usually I am not the type to go see new movies at 12:01 the day they open. I did that with the Simpson's and loved every minute of it. Tonight a buddy of mine invited me to attend the new Batman movie with him at midnight on opening day. With all the buzz around this movie I had to attend. The Dark Knight did not disappoint. Or rather should I rename the movie to the Joker. Heath Ledger was jaw dropping. he was maniacal yet believable. Now that we know more about Heath it feels that he might just do everything his character does. Every moment of the movie was amazing. There were twists and turns and amazing action scenes. This movie is a thumbs up or 5 out of 5 or however you rate movies. I would warn parents about taking children to this movie. PG13 is a generous rating. It is very violent maybe a PG 16 would be better. Great flick, go see it and do not wait for the video. You have to see this mad man on the big screen.

It's been a week.....

Yes it has been a week since I last blogged and boy am I tired. The family reunion is in full effect and we have barley rested since it started. We spent 3 days at the Northgate Mansion in Provo and then spent time having fun together at mom's house.
Today we went and saw Tiffs parents. Colton Jumped off their shed onto the trampoline. It is his favorite thing to do at Opa's. He is about 10 feet in the air and jumps onto a pile of pillows on the tramp. He landed wrong on one jump and knocked the wind out of himself. That scared him, but he is super tough.
I am headed back to Sioux City on Wednesday to sell the house. Tiff and the kids are staying here. Wish me luck!!

Family Reunion

So the entire family will be in town tonight. Tomorrow morning we take our first venture out into the world to get family pictures taken. We haven't had family pictures in 3 years so it will be nice to see the difference in the kids. Today i didn't do much. I wore my shox's for the first time when i went and played ball at the church with my nephews. It was fun.
My dad is finally finishing the waterfall/pond he started 3 years ago just before the last reunion. It is really nice. He had 2 huge rocks delivered today. They had been pre-drilled with a hole to run the water pipe through. I will take a picture and post it soon. I think it is a very clever design and it sounds cool as the water runs over the rocks. Makes me miss the ocean a little more.

I am shoxed...

While in Park City I purchased a pair of Nike Shox's. I have a pair already and I love them!! If you are looking for a good pair of shoes i recommend them. If you go to your local mall they charge you an arm and leg. Go here and you can get the for a much better deal. These are the ones I purchased.

Wanna go on a drive?

So it is family reunion time in Utah. That means we drive from Sioux City to Salt Lake. Over 1000 miles of fun with a 6 and 4 year old. Not to mention the 4 week old....Sound like fun? In case your wondering it wasn't. We left Sioux City around 4 in the afternoon after work. At 4 in the morning we were in Laramie Wyoming and stayed the "night" in a Day's Inn. Checkout was at 11 so we were back on the road. We made it to Park City Utah at around 5 in the afternoon. We did not want to hit Salt lake traffic so we went to the outlets in Park City. We finally made it tomy parents house around 7 at night. A little over 24 hours from starting the drive we made it. That is a long drive!!