Labor Day Weekend Report

Labor Day weekend this year was fantastic even if I had to film a wedding in the middle.

I took off Friday since the girls had the day off school. We ran around a bit and played. We also watched the Sponge Bob Square Pants movie for the 50th time. They love it and I at least can stomach the humor.


Saturday was a wash. Mike and I drove to DeKalb Illinois (About 2 hours) to film a wedding for 2 hours at Northern University. We filmed on the football field (GO HUSKIES!) and it was hotter then hell out there. The wedding was a non-event, but we did get to see Jordy’s little brother Seth at his Game Store in town. It was very impressive.

We took the 2 hour drive home and got together with James for some Video Game Madden fun (I lost every game)

Sunday started the “family” part of the weekend since I insisted there would be no work (aside from the wedding) on weekends so I can make more time for the wife and kids. (Read the last blog on the new job and you will understand)

Sunday started with a trip to Lake Geneva. I got up Super Early so I could get some Video work done before the day began so we got out about 9:30. We walked around the downtown area, shopped a little, and took the girls to the beach (no swimming though) It was a perfect day. We left around 1 to go to a Birthday party for Erin’s cousins youngest Josh.

Afterward we drove home and Erin asked if I had ever been to a Drive in. Truth be told, I said no. Recently it has become a running joke how many things I had never done in my “Privileged” life. For example I had never taken a train (Commuter anyway or a taxi) until just a few months back.

So in a snap decision we went home, ate, and left for the movies. The drive in was a real experience. Sophia fell asleep 10 minutes into the first movie (Underdog, I do not blame her)

Lilly had a bit of a rougher time, waking up every now and then pretty upset. All in all though it was an interesting experience. At least the second movie was “SuperBad” which was actually pretty funny.

Monday we were going to do nothing but sit around. That changed since Erin and I get stir crazy way to easy. (Last few weeks we planned to take it easy we did everything from fishing to Antique shopping)

So we packed up the kids again and went to the Toy Store for some Holiday gifts (Huge Toys’ R Us sale) started a roast in the crock pot for a special family dinner, hit the bookstore for some new reading material (including a book on Day Trips for WI), and a scenic drive just for fun. It ended with a good dinner, bath, and some TV before returning to work this week.

This is what it’s all about.

Mr Floss goes to Washington

So I am, here again to explain why it was so long since my last post.

Truth is I have some real good reasons for once in my life.

In July I moved away from technical support in my weekday job and left Virtual Office after 6 years. I took on a new job as an Implementation Coordinator (still with Hewitt)
Basically as we sell outsourcing support to clients, I come in from our Support Center and arrange the transition, training, and process of how it will look from our side. Or in short, a 50-60 hours per week project manager.

The new job has afforded me the ability to get some new training and new experience which I am very happy about since I was reaching the limit of how far I could climb in Tech Support.

This new job helps me better position myself for leadership type roles in the future.

This was apparent when after only 6 weeks in the role I got to go to Washington DC to represent Hewitt Support Center for the US OPM (Office of Personnel Management) This will be Hewitt first government contract and could open the door for a huge expanse of future government business, so I am pretty excited to be part of the overall process. It hard and the hours are long.

Staying organized has helped as has the support of the others in my role (1 to be exact who is busier then I am) but he has been very helpful to ease me into this lions den.

For OPM I have to go through an FBI check with interviews, family history, etc… so do not be surprised if you get a knock on your door with some MIB’s asking questions about me.