First Day of Work

Yesterday I finally got to move to the Shull building where was located on my first day of work at Pioneer. Talk about déjà vu. I’m one cube east of where I was. I and 4 other co-workers were separated from the rest of our group for about a month. Weird. I wonder if they have a Moving 101 class that the Corporate Services could go to. At any rate, there are some things that suck about the Shull building. The fridge is smaller than the one in Emerson. The network keeps disconnecting everything and seems slower. Shull has NO WINDOWS as seen from my view from my desk. (Kind of looks like a prison cell). Here’s where I used to be with a window view. The bathrooms are smaller and kind of smell like those in Merle Hay Mall. There are good thing about moving to shull. We’re somewhat closer to the rest of our group. I have high cube walls, so it’s kind of like a “mini-manager’s” office. haha And, I no longer have to listen to this really loud lady that is still up on Emerson. Oh yeah, and probably the most important good thing, I still have my job that I love.

On to other news…well…not a lot has happened, other than Jayden getting bigger and learining how to do things more. He’s now learned how to scoot on his butt to get around. He’s given up on crawling, as we too have done. He loves to grab our fingers and walk around. We went up north to vist the Farm and my side of the family last weekend. That was pretty fun. Jayden loves the baby calves and kittens. And likes to sit on the tractor with Dad and Grandpa. Jayden’s still as picky as ever on what he eats. He hates to eat “wet things” and seems to only eat certain kinds of food…bread with jelly, his dried fruit, cereal, chicken sticks, a couple of kinds of pudding and his most loved food, Milk.

99+ Balloons

“Yesterday I went back to work after taking the week off to bond with Jayden and help Kim out. My co-workers decided to have some fun with my office cube so they decorated it with a ton of balloons. It was fun reading the balloons as some had stuff written on them.

Last night Jayden slept like a charm. Monday night he was “”master of the house”" and cried until 12:30 AM, Tuesday morning. He wasn’t eating very well and we had no clue what was going on in his world. We made it through it though. I am definitely glad when he does decide to sleep when it’s the right time to sleep (actually, he sleeps a lot as it is…what the life! :) ).”

Five Years

Man, time has been flying by. Monday (June 1) was my 5th year of service at Pioneer. It really doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. Here’s a list of some things that have happened since I graduated and started working for Pioneer.

  1. Pioneer was purchased by DuPont.
  2. I survived an apartment fire in the building I was living in.
  3. I have purchased two different houses (a townhouse and then a regular house).
  4. I got married a year and about 2 months ago.
  5. Kim and I are expecting a baby in August.
  6. I’ve gained about 5 lbs since graduating.
  7. I don’t have as much hair on the top of my head.

Yesterday I went and picked up my birthday present from Kim. It’s early, but I couldn’t wait any longer. For her birthday I got her ISU license plates (KM4ISU). So she got me some for my b-day. Check them out.

Chad’s Last Day

So, today is Chad Kraus’s last day at Pioneer. He’s going to join up with his Dad’s family business (Dairy Queen). We decided yesterday to give him one last hurrah before today so we filled his cube with some moving stuff to help him out. Here’re some pictures of the results. His desk is usually the most organized of those I work with. We’ll miss ya, Chad. Good luck and stop in and see us sometime when you’re in town.

What a Krausburger

Well, the guys at work and I were talking about Google’s page ranking and how to get it higher. We also were talking about how some pages don’t seem to be showing up in the Google search results. So, we’re all going to try this on our sites (Derek Brooks and Nick Leeper) and see what happens. Here’s a link to a Krausburger. It’s really just a fictitious name of a burger named after one of our co-workers Kraus (who we’re sad to see leaving Pioneer). Now all that’s left is for Google to index our sites.