Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Yesterday, here in the United States, we had Thanksgiving holiday and my company gave us today, Friday, off as well.

Thanksgiving in my family has always been about family for us. We come together for a thanksgiving dinner while the kids ran around with their cousins. It's a lot of fun and I enjoy the time with our family.

For Christmas we, for a long time, have had my cousin from California out to be with us. It stated many years ago when he was a teenaged ski bum and now, 25 years later, he brings his wife and three children with him. I know my own kids love having the fresh batch of kids to hype around with along with their own cousins.

While this time can be hectic with everything going on, I really enjoy the time spent with family.

Appreciation

It's nice to be appreciated. It doesn't happen all the time, but it is nice when it does occur. Today at Novell one of the managers of the team I work with mostly did a really nice thing for me.

Yesterday I was at the office supply store looking at mice for laptops. You know the ones I'm talking about? Wireless with a tiny little plug-in for the computer and they fold or do something to be small when they aren't being used. Anyway, I was looking at the Microsoft Arc mouse and I thought it would work well for me, but I was concerned that it wouldn't be precise enough. Well, this morning one of the people in my morning meeting had one and I was able to check it out and it worked well.

I had just mentioned that I was looking at them so for lunch, this manager went out and bought me one! Just to thank me for all the work I was doing on the project, they bought me the mouse. It's nice to be appreciated.

Links, links and more links

I've been asked several times how to get to...whatever. So I'm providing all the links I know to all the stuff we have right here in a single post for your clicking pleasure!

Pastor Dean's Audio Blog
RCC Message Audio
RCC Worship Experience Video
RCC Live!
Pastor Tom's Blog
Real Time! (our audio podcast that we've ran out of time on for now)
Spike Speaks (connection group leadership training)
Email Pastor Dean
Email Pastor Tom
Email Pastor Dale

I hope that's enough! Let me know if there's something missing for you.