Busy Week

It has been a busy week indeed.
I am still getting used to the new job and already they have me doing technical interviews for prospective employees.

I got my first paycheck this week, WooHoo!!!

We had our usual Computer User Group meeting on Thursday but when Thursday came around our speaker, from Borland, cancelled. Talk about last minute. Luckily we got someone from Microsoft to fill in on short notice.
You can say a lot of things about Microsoft both good and bad but they have some amazing people working for them. Not only smart but good people.

So we had out meeting, we had the raffle, which I run, and after the raffle the President asks me to stay up front for a little with some of the other board members. He makes a little speech about how all the board members are volunteers and they work really hard. He says that the board has decided to award one of its own the honor of Voluteer of the Year. This is the first time I heard of it and the reason became clear shorty as it turned out that I was the Volunteer of the Year. While my mouth was still hanging open he told how the board had voted to award me an Xbox for my work during the past year.
Since I am the Treasurer also they didn't have one to give me but told me I could go get one for myself.
I don't think any of you guys read this blog but if you do, thanks.
I was totally surprised.

Just the honor was enough for me but the Kid loves the Xbox and I think it is pretty neat too, even if I had to spend another $60 out of my own pocket to get some extra stuff for it.
This is the reason I ended up in Blockbusters today as the kid got up early and dragged me over there.