Working Hard

I'm sitting here in the terminal at Minneapolis Airport killing time waiting for my next flight. I'm headed to Portland for a work conference all week. This is the trip I take annually and I love this part of the country. So scenic and very different landscape than Wisconsin. Mountains, huge evergreens, ocean, desert all within a few hours drive.

I'm head to Skamania Lodge for the annual Cascade Users Group Conference. It's a great conference and I've formed some good relationships with the other users over the years. I'm the only employee from MGE going; I like it that way because I can do my own thing in my free time. I plan on doing some hiking and maybe visit Mt. St. Helens which is about an hour or so away.

What's new with Zeke???

My life's been pretty crazy lately. I would say that this is the busiest I've been in my working career at MGE. But it's not stressful and I'm seeing a lot of my projects coming to fruition. I'd take busy over bored any day. I've also started being one of the sound techs at Blackhawk Downtown which is held at the Majestic theater in Madison. To get things up and running I'm working sound every Sunday for the next few months. We need to haul in, setup and tear down every Sunday! But I'm happy to serve and it's neat to be a part of something that is so new and "uncharted territiory"ish.

I'm also training for a marathon in late October. I'm running in the Middleton Haunted Hustle on Oct. 30th. Training is going well. I've already done a 20 miler and I'll probably do another next week. I have the Fall 50 relay race in Door County the weekend before so I really hope I don't injure myself!

I've started taking piano lessons this fall. I've wanted to learn proper technique and expand my songwriting palette, if you will. The Madison Music Foundary is where I take my lessons every Thursday afterwork. So far so good and I think I already have better fingering technique!!

The Lonshots season is coming to a close. We went 5-5 in the summer league and we are currently 2-2 in the fall league. Our last game is next week which I'll miss. It's a been a long season but we made it to the championship game which was unexpected! I really love the guys on the team, definetly some HQHs (High Quality Humans).

Amber and I have started year #5 in our marriage! That's crazy. But all is well. Many more to come!

Alright, gotta catch my next flight. Enough about me! Later.