It is amazing where this job is taking me. Well the latest adventure took me back to Denver. Much of my time there was occupied with the Association of Challenge Course (ACCT) conference. That was the job aspect of my five days in Denver. Don't get me wrong, it was a great learning experience but for me the best part was having the Gary's Angels clan back together again. For those of you who don't know the story, Gary (my current boss) was also my former employer at Indiana Wesleyan University. I worked for him two summers and my last summer I also worked with Rudy and Dawn (who I lived with in this past summer for a bit). Well by the end of the summer we became known as Gary's Angles. Lynette (my roommate in college) later too became apart of the Angel clan. The ACCT Conference brought Gary, Lynette, and me to Denver because of our occupation. Denver just so happened to be the place of residence for Dawn and Rudy. So on Friday night, all of us and Laura (my old housemate) and Chris (Dawn's man) went out for dinner and had hours of laughs! (Let me tell you, with that clan laughter is unavoidable!) Pictured Left to Right: Gary, Lynette, Me, Rudy, Dawn, and Chris.
January 30, 2006
Gary's Angels
January 30, 2006
It is amazing where this job is taking me. Well the latest adventure took me back to Denver. Much of my time there was occupied with the Association of Challenge Course (ACCT) conference. That was the job aspect of my five days in Denver. Don't get me wrong, it was a great learning experience but for me the best part was having the Gary's Angels clan back together again. For those of you who don't know the story, Gary (my current boss) was also my former employer at Indiana Wesleyan University. I worked for him two summers and my last summer I also worked with Rudy and Dawn (who I lived with in this past summer for a bit). Well by the end of the summer we became known as Gary's Angles. Lynette (my roommate in college) later too became apart of the Angel clan. The ACCT Conference brought Gary, Lynette, and me to Denver because of our occupation. Denver just so happened to be the place of residence for Dawn and Rudy. So on Friday night, all of us and Laura (my old housemate) and Chris (Dawn's man) went out for dinner and had hours of laughs! (Let me tell you, with that clan laughter is unavoidable!) Pictured Left to Right: Gary, Lynette, Me, Rudy, Dawn, and Chris.
It is amazing where this job is taking me. Well the latest adventure took me back to Denver. Much of my time there was occupied with the Association of Challenge Course (ACCT) conference. That was the job aspect of my five days in Denver. Don't get me wrong, it was a great learning experience but for me the best part was having the Gary's Angels clan back together again. For those of you who don't know the story, Gary (my current boss) was also my former employer at Indiana Wesleyan University. I worked for him two summers and my last summer I also worked with Rudy and Dawn (who I lived with in this past summer for a bit). Well by the end of the summer we became known as Gary's Angles. Lynette (my roommate in college) later too became apart of the Angel clan. The ACCT Conference brought Gary, Lynette, and me to Denver because of our occupation. Denver just so happened to be the place of residence for Dawn and Rudy. So on Friday night, all of us and Laura (my old housemate) and Chris (Dawn's man) went out for dinner and had hours of laughs! (Let me tell you, with that clan laughter is unavoidable!) Pictured Left to Right: Gary, Lynette, Me, Rudy, Dawn, and Chris.
January 16, 2006
The Latest Shocking News Update
January 16, 2006
The New Year has brought about two new
changes in my life. The first has been an answer to prayer. I was in the market for a new place to live at the end of last year. It was a long trail of people saying “we just filled the spot but you can call this person…” but it finally came to a temporary end. I didn’t find a new place to live but I did find someone that was willing to share my humble abode with me. Thus helping with the cost of rent and making life a bit more interesting. Her name is Sarah and is an undergrad student. This is her last semester so that is the reason this is just a temporary fix. So far all is going well. It took me a while to adjust to someone sleeping in the bed above me.
The Second change is more of a shock. This past Saturday my head lost a little weight as I got
10 inches of my hair chopped off. Here are the before and after pictures to prove it. This isn’t the first time I have done this so I think I handled it rather well. (It is a good way to keep vanity in check.) I donated my hair to a great organization call Locks of Love (http://www.locksoflove.org/). It is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to 
financially disadvantaged children 18 years and younger suffering from long-term medical hair loss.
The New Year has brought about two new
changes in my life. The first has been an answer to prayer. I was in the market for a new place to live at the end of last year. It was a long trail of people saying “we just filled the spot but you can call this person…” but it finally came to a temporary end. I didn’t find a new place to live but I did find someone that was willing to share my humble abode with me. Thus helping with the cost of rent and making life a bit more interesting. Her name is Sarah and is an undergrad student. This is her last semester so that is the reason this is just a temporary fix. So far all is going well. It took me a while to adjust to someone sleeping in the bed above me.The Second change is more of a shock. This past Saturday my head lost a little weight as I got
10 inches of my hair chopped off. Here are the before and after pictures to prove it. This isn’t the first time I have done this so I think I handled it rather well. (It is a good way to keep vanity in check.) I donated my hair to a great organization call Locks of Love (http://www.locksoflove.org/). It is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to 
financially disadvantaged children 18 years and younger suffering from long-term medical hair loss.
January 15, 2006
What a Job
January 15, 2006
Well, I thought I would take this opportunity to give you a little inside look at my job. Currently we are building another ropes course (both high and low) out at our Greystone Facility. Base Camp 2 is its official name. We are still at the beginning stages of construction of the high ropes course. The first stage is clearing. This is quite a long process when you start with the area that we did. (see picture below)
The clearing is pretty much done and we drilled all the holes in the trees to install blots that serve as the connecting points of cable and rope.
All of our bolts haven’t come in yet, so to continue moving forward with the project we started construction of the platforms that participants stand on at the beginning and the end of an element. 
As the course progresses, I will post more pictures to give you a better understanding of what I do. Hopefully by the end of the week the course will really start to take shape.
Well, I thought I would take this opportunity to give you a little inside look at my job. Currently we are building another ropes course (both high and low) out at our Greystone Facility. Base Camp 2 is its official name. We are still at the beginning stages of construction of the high ropes course. The first stage is clearing. This is quite a long process when you start with the area that we did. (see picture below)
The clearing is pretty much done and we drilled all the holes in the trees to install blots that serve as the connecting points of cable and rope.
All of our bolts haven’t come in yet, so to continue moving forward with the project we started construction of the platforms that participants stand on at the beginning and the end of an element. 
As the course progresses, I will post more pictures to give you a better understanding of what I do. Hopefully by the end of the week the course will really start to take shape.
January 3, 2006
Happy New Year
January 3, 2006
Well, after one flight being canceled and another delayed I finally made it back to Arkansas. Two thousand six is already underway and I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce you to the team at the Soderquist Center. To highlight a few people, Don Soderquist (who founded the Center along with his wife) is the older gentlemen sitting in the center of the photo next to his wife Jo. My boss Gary Swyers is in the front row in the white shirt. Andy Wilson (the CEO) is next to me in the front left and Jason Pollack (the grad student that is part of the Experiental Learning team) is 3rd from the left in the back row (with the beard). So now you have some faces to go with the names of the people that I work with. Happy New Year!
Well, after one flight being canceled and another delayed I finally made it back to Arkansas. Two thousand six is already underway and I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce you to the team at the Soderquist Center. To highlight a few people, Don Soderquist (who founded the Center along with his wife) is the older gentlemen sitting in the center of the photo next to his wife Jo. My boss Gary Swyers is in the front row in the white shirt. Andy Wilson (the CEO) is next to me in the front left and Jason Pollack (the grad student that is part of the Experiental Learning team) is 3rd from the left in the back row (with the beard). So now you have some faces to go with the names of the people that I work with. Happy New Year!
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