The start was certainly slow, but after the first half, each team went blow for blow, ending in a final 2 minutes that was spectacular! NFL offenses need next to no time to score anymore, and the first game tonight proved that conclusively.
Saints get a stop, and hold on to a 24-21 lead, burn some time, and hit a field goal. Texans start deep, and Watson shows why he is an excellent quarterback, flying down the field in 13 seconds, throwing the TD pass to none other than Kenny Stills.
Saints with the ball, and 35 seconds left, just need a field goal. The one Texans miscue came from a prevent defense that allowed the Saints to reach field goal range, which Wil Lutz readily exploited.
Today was one of those interesting kinds of days. I woke up this morning, fully clothed, laying backwards in the bed in front of my laptop working on a DVD project for Kellie when my alarm went off.
Work was a bit less weird. We have a new phone system for one of our stores, and I’ve been working on programming the phones and extensions into the system. This will be my first IP phone deployment that I’ve been personally involved with.
Afterwords, I went to Applebee’s with some family to watch the Wichita State NIT game against Alabama. I want to say congratulations to the Shockers on their 66-57 victory!
I also was able to interact with my daughter via Skype tonight. I am really glad she has taken to seeing me on a monitor so well.
No real big personal thoughts tonight, other than I’m looking forward to getting back home this weekend.
Posted by: Elliott Swain / Category: Elliott, Work
So, approximately 30 days have passed being at my new job. I have really enjoyed it so far as I now work with several kinds of technology: computers, servers, network infrastructure, phone systems, wireless phones, and a few other small things.
My being away from home hasn’t been the easiest thing in the world for me, but I know it has been really difficult on Kellie and Hannah. At least Hannah has taken really well to Skype, so I can interact with my daughter visually.
My business is effectively at a standstill for the moment, as I still do not have a routine that I would call “normal.”
So long, and I hope my next post won’t take so long.
As I sit in my living room, around 3 AM, I begin to really ponder what next week will be like. Since I’ve done a horrible job at keeping this up to date, allow me to fill in a few blanks.
While I sit here trying to stay warm and watching Reba on TV, I begin to think on how my day went. So far it hasn’t been too bad, for a Monday.
There was plenty of snow to drive through this morning, but traffic wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Work was OK. The college had its first day of classes for spring 2010. It’s always good to see students back on campus.
I also see signs of hope as Twitter accounts are being used by the college. I feel it is a sign that social media is now viewed as more relevant by the college, and perhaps the community.
On the home front, my business is getting a lot of customers, which is always good. Unfortunately, this evening has been too busy to get to all of them.
This evening, I helped Kellie with making lasagna, while she was out getting a few needed items. I then played with Hannah for awhile, keeping her out of mommy’s hair. I then proceeded to feed Hannah, and then let her play in her room, since our dinner was taking a bit longer than usual.
We then started putting up the wall border that we had ordered. The project will look great once it’s complete. Soon after, we got Hannah ready for bed, gave her a bottle, and put her down for the night.
Afterwords, I finished up this post while watching Kellie do some more wall border detail work.
