Muscle Car Prints

I got some prints today.  It's a bit of a bitter-sweet story.  I belong to a local Ford Mustang club here in Denver and one of it's members (Steve) posted saying that his father-inlaw, Bryan Hardy was in the hospital with something that was really serious.  He is an artist and loves muscle cars and paints them as a passion.  I clicked on the link and instantly fell in love with the quality work!!  Well, I bought a few prints and had the chance to meet Steve and his wife Lisa tonight to pick them up.

Unfortunately Bryan passed away this last Friday after being in the hospital for a couple of weeks, but Steve and Lisa told me how excited and happy it made him to know that people from the club liked his work and bought prints!  It made me feel so good that I could have given a dying man who I never met a moment of smiles and happiness.  I'm sure he will be greatly missed and the prints I bought will be framed and placed in the garage to be treasured!

http://www.classiccarportraits.com/index.asp?page=home.html&top=we

- Ian

Best Man Fail

I couldn't stop laughing!

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- Ian

I'm back in Telecom!!

Most of you know I started a new job back on May 8th.  After being unemployed for 7 months and then working in a camera repair shop to get by I was presented with the opportunity to get back in Telecommunications working on Avaya equipment again.  The place that hired me is called ACT Conferencing; they are global company that offers audio and video conferencing bridges for other companies.  My role would be to maintain their current Avaya phone system and I would also be responsible for their bridging equipment which I would have to learn on the job.

The best part of this job is where I get to work!!  Their HQ office is located in Golden in the Denver West business park and it is absolutely beautiful!!!  I take every chance I can get and go for walks outside because it's so calming and rejuvenating.  They have 2 water falls and a large pond to walk around surrounded by pine, cotton wood and weeping willow trees......ahhhhhh  :D

Here's a picture of my desk and office.  I have a laptop and dual 22" flat screens!  We are on the 3rd floor so I have a nice view of Green Mountain



Outside there are nice greenery and wonderful walking paths





This is one of my favorite features is the waterfall pools just outside the back door of the complex, it's soooooo relaxing when the work world is just too much!!



There are various benches and bridges to sit or stand around the waterfall pools



Nice Lush walking paths!!



Lots of statues around the park, great places to eat lunch outside and occasionally there's someone playing  music to set the mood



The larger pond to walk around.  Every day for the first 3 months I watched ducklings and their parents swimming around this pond



What a WONDERFUL place to work!!



The locals are very nice too



Beautiful flowers everywhere!



I'm going into my 5th month at ACT and still love every moment of it.  I have a lot more responsibility than I did at every other job but I'm also treated with more respect and allowed more freedoms which is so nice.  The surrounding environment helps me every day to keep my sanity; I've never been happier working somewhere

- Posted by Ian