Back To School

Summer is over. The pools are empty. The kids can't stay up late now. But it's still hot out. Jonathan started 2nd grade on Monday and Robby started kindegarten this morning. They are both enjoying it so far. Jonathan had a note in his backpack Monday asking our permission to have Jonathan tested for gifted and talented classes. The letter said that he demonstrates characteristics that permit him to be tested. So we're pretty excited, and we'll see how he does. Needless to say our expectations of his financial ability to take care of us in old age just went up!

All in all we had a great summer. I was able to take some good time off, playing in the sun. Only regret is that I still haven't been on the golf course yet this year.

Having a Heat Wave

It's HOT! Oklahoma City was up to 107 today, and I think the lawn will probably give up very shortly. The kids were on the slip-n-slide all day today...staying cool.

I just read the Business Week article from last week about Kevin Rose. The article was okay, but it eluded to the fact that he made 60 million in 18 months. In fact, his company is not yet profitable, and has not given in to the pressures of selling the company until they are done building their vision. If you haven't seen Kevin's website, www.digg.com you should check it out. The site is a news aggregator where users (called the diggnation) submit interesting stories, and other digg members either give the stories positive or negative diggs. Stories with more diggs go to the top. And you can add users to your 'friends' and view their history of diggs. So you can associate with like-minded people, and see what they dugg. Pretty great concept.

I continue to struggle getting Wytek IT Services off the ground. I need more word of mouth and networking, which is difficult while continuing to work fulltime. I also need to spend more time developing the service line that I offer.

The kids were at Grandma and Grandpa Wyckoff's house from Saturday night until Tuesday night of this week. They had a great time on the lake; swimming, tubing, and playing. It gave Katrina and me a nice break for a few days.