First off apologies for my extended absence lately, it has been very crazy and busy here. So I thought I would take a quick minute and give you recap. Well a week ago Friday I was out of the office for a day walking, sweating and getting a tan at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa. If you would have told me even two years ago that I would go out and watch golf I would have laughed at you. But no, I went and watched golf in 102 degree heat with no wind, and had a blast. I am not really a golfer, that is I don’t golf very well, but I have fun trying. It is really nice to see that even the PGA Tour Professionals make bad shots as well.

This brings me to my next subject, Tiger. I am not the biggest Tiger fan out there by any means, in fact I would rather root for somebody else that needs some cheering for. That said I am not trying to discount his abilities, he is a very good golfer. I did however notice that for the most part all of the PGA golfers are very cordial to each other and carry on some conversation while playing, just like regular people. However I also notice that Tiger does not do this, it almost makes the impression that he is arrogant or better that everybody else. I have had this discussion with several of my Coworkers and the general consensus seems to be that, that is just Tiger putting on his “game face” and being so focused on his game. I guess I can accept that and just need to learn how to appreciate it, besides I am a much better golfer that Tiger when playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007, LOL.

However, on the subject of Tiger, I just want to point out that the guy in the green shirt, red hat in the upper right hand corner of this picture is me. Also I don’t know where this picture came from so if anybody knows please let me know, so I can give proper credit and get a better quality copy.

So the other thing that has consumed my time is swapping computers. I have been in computer limbo for the past week as I have been working on getting my new desktop up and running. What kind of desktop you ask? It is a Dell Precision Workstation 390 with a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz processor, 2GB RAM, two 300 GB Hard Drives in Raid 1, Nvidia Quadro FX 3450 Video Card with Dual Dell Ultra-sharp 17″ Displays. This is the result of some budgeting that I have been doing and the fact that I had old computers in my department that needed to be replaced. Also our entire IS department is now running Vista, Yeah!*. I will write more on budgeting for Information Technology in small companies later.