Another Birthday
Today was my birthday and it was a pretty fun one. My brother and his wife and their new baby are here from Idaho. Also my sister from San Diego drove up. We hung out most of the day and played some cornhole! We went to Lamppost Pizza in Corona for some pizza and trivia!
My wife made a wonderful pumpkin cheesecake! It was delicious. Tomorrow or should I say in 4 minutes is Thanksgiving.
I am thankful for another year of growth, not as thankful for the physical growth, but the growth towards one another.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Best Costume
Emma took top prize for the best costume in our neighborhood this Halloween. They really liked her face makeup.
Galveston AAPA
This year’s AAPA conference was in Galveston. Galveston did an excellent job of hosting the conference and I have a great time marketing with the Ports around the America’s. Lots of people from the USA, Canada, as well as places like Columbia were in attendance.
It is nice to be home and I have a lot to do to get ready for my parents tomorrow! We are all excited and can’t wait for them to get here! I need to head to Home Depot to get on with the honey-do list!
End of Week and Travel to Texas
This week was pretty busy. I was able to accomplish a lot of things at work which of course is food. Unfortunately I have a short weekend and leave for a business Development trip on Sunday. I love working in Los Angeles. The atmosphere is definitely different than a small privately owned company where I was the vice president, but it is a good place.
I really like the work and the team we have in place is an excellent team.
On a side note my wife is 13 weeks pregnant. Time is flying by. I was informed today that they baby is already the size of a peach and all organs are fully functioning. Crazy that this is only 11 weeks past conception and it if a real life human being. Life is a miracle.
Tomorrow should be a relaxed day. I will pack my bags for Galveston, and finish a few things around the house. Other than that, I will watch some college football Go Boise State and USC!!
I Learned to Zip My Lips
I remember a story that my parents told me about my older sister. One day coming home from church they asked her what she learned in Sunday School? She replied with hand motions as well, “I learned to zip my lip.”
Wow, what a great thing to learn. There are times we just need to shut up! Your family and best of friends may be ok with hearing your gripes and complaints sometimes, but your normal friends and coworkers don’t want to hear it.
This is a tough one for some of us to learn!
Good Company and Great People
I haven’t had a lot to say lately so I have been updating mainly through Twitter which you can see to the side. I have been extremely busy at work. Some pretty long days, trying to get things done. Things are moving along pretty well, and I really like working for my company. They are a good company, with some great people.
Tonight Boise State beat Tulsa to remain undefeated! It is a good win, and a win is a win, but they didn’t win HUGE! they need a HUGE win for the rankings. So I expect them to drop this week in the rankings.
My dad is still in Libya and he is doing some awesome stuff. It is hard to manage million dollar contracts, and he is managing Billion dollar contracts! In fact try 40 of them. So as the COO, you can believe he is busy. He is putting an awesome team together. By the way, if you are a college graduate and looking for work you can send my your resume. If you are able to go to Libya that is even better! Try it for a year, and at the same time get paid really well.
If you are an engineer or can be a contracts administrator send your resume to me. I can’t guarantee anything but if you are a hard working person that is willing to try a new place for a year, I will see what I can do.
Tomorrow is Thursday! Hanging out with some guys from work after we leave the office, then Friday is my day off! So that makes Thursday a great day! Also today I met with the district manager here in Southern California and things are sounding pretty good. Exciting times!
Hey if you get some time I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. He is doing great losing weight and is one creative guy with a lot of talent! Stop by his site, you will love to read his stuff. Big Simon.
Life in the Fast Lane – BLAST Inland Empire
Since we have moved to California life has been much busier for us. 
We don’t really like it, but there are good things that come with it. For one we are slowly meeting people. This definitely takes longer it seems in So Cal, but it is happening.
We are starting a Meetup BLAST Group which should be good for making some good friends. We hope to make this group a group that is truly a community. A community that helps, loves, and is happy for each other as well as helping the world around us.
Work has been fast paces from Texas to Los Angeles as well as some time in Louisiana and Denver. I work for a great company that takes very good care of their employees. I am really loving the company, although I miss running my own small engineering firm with my dad. Read more
ABC’s – Another Baby Coming
The past few months have been very busy. I have been developing business in Texas while doing a lot of work in California. It has been fun and time is flying by!
On the home front the family is doing well. I do have some very exciting news! The Rinard Family is growing! We are expecting another baby! It is still very early as my wife is 9 weeks pregnant and will be due at the end of April. We are very excited!
I have added the Twitter to JakeRinard.com as well as a link to Facebook. I update these more often and this way you can stay up to date.
Feels like Home
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Ontario is beginning to feel like home. I love Southern California and the Inland Empire. It feels like coming back home after a long trip. The people are great, the selection of restaurants, shopping, and everything else is as good as it gets!
I love being back home!
Gold Rush – California
We made it to Ontario California and showed the family the house that we made an offer on. We spent some time walking around the neighborhood and the home. They loved it. We drove around Ontario and we were all very impressed with Ontario! The area by Ontario Mills Mall is everything you would want in an area! It has everything we were hoping for! We loved it!
We just drove to Anaheim and got our hotel for the next month or so. It is nice and will work out great! Marsha is feeling a bit spoiled as in this motel they will load our dishwasher for us and even do our grocery shopping! They have breakfast for us everyday and even have dinners most days. On Thursdays – Saturdays they have Kid’s Movie nights. During the days they have some excursions to various shopping and other things such as Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland.
Seems fun!
