My new company participates in the Kansas City Corporate Challenge and I began thinking about competing in the Bicycle Road Race; however, when I saw last years results, I realized that the best in this competition are keeping a steady pace of 30 MPH on the 2.5 mile course. I'm going to need a better bike if I'm going to be even in the middle of the pack in this race. (There's not really a pack because it's a time trial event, so they space the racers out by 30 seconds.)I also found out that my boss's boss, ...

Enid's dad submitted a picture that she had taken of their dog to the Salina Journal and they put it on their website.

Enid's photo (above) was featured on The Pioneer Woman's site.

One of the interesting parts of my new job is that instead of getting paid twice a month, like at my old job, I will get paid once a month. Today would have been a pay day for me, but we are stretching our dollars to last to the end of the month. We've been planning for this since the last couple of weeks of December, so we're prepared, but I look forward to seeing that first check.I do like the idea of paying all my bills for the entire month on the first day of the month ...

Enid was observing a pretend sword fight between Ora 5 and Ewan and heard Ora 5 yell "En Garde!"Ewan responded, "En Garbage!"

Last night I finally got a chance to test using Skype to call missionaries from the church. It worked really well and I recommend it for any church that is considering a good way to talk to their missionaries.Here's what I did:Get SkypeI downloaded Skype and installed it on the church computer and signed up for an account.Audio OutAudio out is a bit of a struggle since there is a 1/8-inch-size headphone jack on a laptop and I need to get it into an XLR jack on the church audio board. I started by ...

This is good article about what BATS Exchange does and it even has some pictures. I sent it out to bunch of friends and family.Just off I-35, a global financial powerhouse on KCFreePress.com.

I took Ora 5 and Aspen sledding this afternoon. The hill by our church is a long hill and very popular, so many people had gone down it and packed the snow down. We had a great time. The first few runs were not very long as I was getting used to sledding again. Once a remembered how to steer a sled, we had good runs that went all the way down the hills (about 250-300 yards).Aspen saw the teenagers taking jumps over a ramp that they had built and decided that she wanted to try it. I ...

The picture you see here reached #16 on Flickr's most interesting photos today.

Today I started my new job at BATS Exchange. BATS is the third-largest stock exchange in the US and we also compete against the London Stock Exchange in the UK. They measure stock trades in microseconds; a microsecond is 1/1000 of a millisecond or 1/1,000,000.I arrived today to find a new office with four monitors (two for my Windows PC and two for my Linux box). Water, pop, coffee, energy drinks are all available for free and lunch is provided every day; today was Lenny's subs. Those were among all the good surprises.The not so good ...