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!
Life is Up and Down
Is life more up or more down? When you look back at your life does it seem that life is more down these days, when compared to how it was back 10 or 20 years ago?
I am not sure what it is, I tend to blame it on technology but I have no idea. Life does seem to go much faster and be much more of a downer than what I remember.
Entertaining Guests from Libya
Today my wife and I will be meeting up with some Libyan guests. It will be a good time of getting to know each other as well as hearing about the daily life in Libya. Many of you know that I have family living in Libya, and so it will be great to hear more about the country.
The guests we will be meeting come from a very important family. In fact his Uncle works directly for the President Muammar al-Gaddafi, and has also been in the past, the representative to the U.N., as well as many other important jobs.
This will be a time to hear about their life. Libya is going through many changes that I am sure are exciting to the Libyans. This will very interesting and the friendship will be good.
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.
Pagan Christianity – Book Forum
Have you read 
Pagan Christianity By: Frank Viola, George Barna?
If so I would love to begin a dialog here. What do you think of it? What stuck out to you?
My father took it from my counter a year or so ago and read through it in a day or so. He bookmarked tons of pages, where he wanted to discuss further. We have yet to get to that point, since he is in Libya now!
What is your take on
Pagan Christianity By: Frank Viola, George Barna?
Out of the Bag
The news is out of the bag.
We are all tired.
Off to the Mountains we go!
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
Boise State Climbs into the Top 5
Boise State Football has climbed into the Top 5 in the college rankings for the first time ever! 
Sure is exciting. I do wish they could get tougher teams to play them but of course what does a team like the Texas Longhorns or Ohio State have to gain from this? Let’s say USC played them, what would they gain? If they beat BSU nobody cares, and if they lose they look really bad.
No one traditionally in the Top 10 has a reason to play Boise State, so BSU is destined to have a weaker schedule. As Boise continues winning a tougher schedule will slowing come, but it will take time unless they jump out of the WAC and into the Mountain West or Pac 10.
I am a big supporter of moving to the Mountain West Conference and developing that into a powerhouse. Immediately it would be a pretty dominant conference and with a good focus on recruiting the conference would be as competitive as any conference out there with a very good regional flair. The Pac 10 would be Read more
