4 years old!!

Its hard to believe that tomorrow my little girl is four years old. It feels like yesterday that I just meeting her for the first time. It is amazing how much she has grown and changed over the years. This picture is her wearing her dance cloths for the first time, in which she started a couple of weeks ago. It fun to take a moment and write about her for her birthday. I think of how she is too smart for her own good- picking the childproof locks, blaming Tait for anything and everything and how much she loves to learn. I think about how just a year ago, she wouldn't talk, now we cant get her to stop. And the conversations we have are wonderful. When I first found out that our first kid was a girl, I was devastated, but now its been the greatest thing ever. Most likely since she has me wrapped around her little finger. I am such a proud dad and love this little girl so much. I hope she has a great birthday tomorrow. I know just spending time with her will be fun. Happy birthday Kinni!!!

Technologically Inept

Today at work is the managers meeting with the executives; where they discuss the company over the year, make sure everyone understands what is needed and expected, as well as answer any ones concerns with the store they run. Every year they have the newest store manager give a lecture on a topic. Now I know you are saying "what does this have to do with being Technologically inept?" Glad you asked!!! This is where the Inept part of Intermountain Concrete comes into play.
So the manager that was up to lecture wanted to play a YouTube video from a Ken Schmidt (a visionary & former communication director for Harley Davidson). Anyway, my company is just getting pasted the ribbon tape printers. So they started off setting up a portable computer (not laptop.... a computer!). It didn't work because it had no sound, no Internet access to get YouTube.
They tried a laptop but there is no Wi-Fi in our company.
It was a mess. Finally, they came to me. I tried everything I could. I tried to email it from my galaxy phone to email. That got blocked by the firewall on our system. So I tried to get it on my own laptop through our neighbors Wi-Fi signal, I needed their password ran over to their building to find it closed and locked. No luck there. I suggested that the manager could run to McDonald's parking lot use their free Wi-Fi and download it really quick. He looked at me like I have no idea what you are saying to do. I couldn't go so I gave up on that idea. I tried to use a Thumb drive to download it onto and hook up to another laptop- but our only PC tower couldn't read the thumb drive. Oh what a mess it was. And for some reason my responsibility to find a way to get this video.
Finally, with minutes before having to leave for work, I just pulled it up on my phone and had them play it from there. Oh isn't technology great! They had to watch and listen to a small touch screen phone. At least it worked. I went to school without a phone, which was like losing my left arm. Its sad that a company isn't up a little more on technology, let alone how to use it. Good things I am around and call the technology guru (and I know barley enough to get around). But I have to remember its a concrete company. Gotta love the old school way of running things. At least the web can be found on the phone.

Good Old Brett Keisel

I know its hard to believe that this Grizzly Adams looking character is a former BYU football player. But it is. I remember a lot of years ago watching Brett Keisel playing at LaVell Edwards stadium with a clean cut face. Now as he prepares to play in the Super Bowel he looks like this. I just had to laugh when the news did an article on him and his beard. But good for him for getting the attention he deserves. He has been in the league for many of years and is a Steelers favorite for the fans. He was pretty low key on sports figures. I just liked the picture and figured it would be good to blog about. He is kinda scary, not some one to be met in a dark alley. Although I will be rooting for the Packers (only because they are the underdogs), I will root for the former BYU and Utah players playing on both sides of the ball. The Steelers have Brett, Chris Hokes, Stevenson Sylvester (yes I added a Utah Player). Packers have Jarret Bush (USU), and Brady Poppinga. So if you don't care about either team playing. Lets at least root for the players who played at the Utah's universities.

We've created a monster!!

A while back Anna gave McKinley a game boy advanced game about princesses. Don't ask me why she gave her that but she did. I knew some where in my box of junk that I had an old Game boy Advanced hand held system. I dug it out of retirement and gave it to McKinley. Ever since I did that she has been playing non stop. Last night, I saw the deterioration of what the game boy has done to McKinley. It was around her bed time but she was propped up against the love sack, rubbing her blood shot and red eyes. She had been playing for a while. Oh technology is not a good thing. She looked like she had been playing for hours. She loves playing that princess game. Cant read the instructions, or really doesn't know what to do. But to move and play as a princess is just fun to her. She is slowly picking up the concept of what to do. Once she has it, I will have to pry it from her fingers to get her to stop. I have created a monster!! A game boy playing monster!!