Oh, you've got to love Florida. Beautiful beaches, beautiful weather, and a beautiful time. We had a great time on vacation. The weather was perfect on all but one of the days we were there with the sun shining and a nice cool breeze coming off of the Gulf. The one day when it was rainy happened to be the day we were scheduled to go fishing on the intercoastal waterway, so we had to cancel the trip. Hopefully we'll be able to get out and catch some big fish next time.
Midway through vacation I had a packed schedule to get back to k'zoo for some meetings. Actually, I think this was the fullest schedule I've ever had in a 36 hour period. It went something like this:
4:00am Wake up
4:30am Leave for airport
6:20am Fly out of Florida
11:30am Arrive in Kzoo, go change into suit, drive downtown
12:30pm Meetings start
5:30pm Meetings end
5:40pm Awards ceremony starts
11:00pm Awards ceremony ends, sleep
8:30am Drive back downtown
9:00am start my presentation
11:00am finish my presentation, drive home, change back into vacation clothes
12:00pm fly out of Kzoo
3:30pm arrive in Florida
4:10pm walk on the beach!
It was a productive trip home. I won a pretty prestigous award for work and my presentation went very well.
Next up: a two day trip to Cleveland at the end of May followed by a three day trip to Boston in June.
2 comments:
I'd like to hear more about the award. Dad told me a little, but I didn't get the details. Congratulations! Sounds like you had a nice vacation, too.
Well, this is an award which is handed out annually for Synergy. All of the divisions within our group, I think there are seven divisions in my group, submit one nomination for each of several categories. This year my team was nominated for the Synergy award. These awards are given out only to those people who are in the RnD organization. The synergy nomination was for the project I've been working on for a couple of years. Over this time period I've worked with individuals at most of the divisions in our group. I've been working extensively with teams in California, Texas, India, and Kalamazoo to get the project where it is today. All of this cross-divisional work got myself and four of my teammates nominated for the award. The award comes with a couple for trophies, and $5k, half stock and half cash.
I wasn't expecting to win but was plesantly surprised. The award ceremony was kind of like a scaled down version of the Grammy's. There were video clips describing each of the nominations and lots of speaches by the high up folks within the company. Everyone was dressed up and we had a nice dinner. There were about 140 people nominated for awards between all the divisions.
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