Well, this will hopefully catch you up on what’s been going on in my world over the last week-and-a-half.
As mentioned here, I was recently in Michigan for a conference. There are portions of the conference that were geared towards me, more of the technical/operations side of things. It was good to hear from the presenters, and to recognize that while we are doing things well there are definitely things that we can improve upon. I’d like to see us take some of our print marketing we do and turn it into some electronic format. That process has already started in a very minor way, but we are a long way off (both in the office and in society) from moving totally away from paper.
For the trip we flew into Chicago, then rented some vans for the drive to western Michigan. When the conference finished on Saturday we drove back to Chicago and saw the sights. We took a ride on the Chicago River (which was very relaxing), strolled along Navy Pier, ate at Giordano’s, and saw the Navy Pier’s fireworks show from the top of the Hancock Tower. While waiting to get into Giordano’s we saw Tim Wakefield and Doug Collins (separately) walking down the street. On Sunday we went to Willow Creek for church. Boy howdy that place is huge, but they have a very effective ministry going on.
Work last week was mostly me trying to get back into the rhythm of being in the office. Lots of stuff going on, so there was no real time to relax.