Derek Weber’s Waste ‘o Web

I/T Reunion

07.24.2007 | 12:55 am |

I started at a company as the sole help desk person when I was 19 years old. I was put in a large windowed office that was to be shared with another coworker of mine, decided she was too good to be caught dead in the Northbrook office and worked from home most of the time. She later ended up moving out of the office. Then it was mine . . . All mine!! When I worked in the office. I would take work from home days once in a while. Haven’t had a job where I could do that for a long time.

Anyway, the majority of the I/T staff was spread across the U.S. and worked from their homes. In order to maintain a sense of community we would have a yearly I/T Meeting in Texas where the bosses (Floyd and Becky) live.
When the company was bought out we decided to keep up the tradition yearly. I wasn’t able to make it for last year’s but I was for this year’s . . . I’m very glad I went.

It was great to catch up with people. Great food too. (I was impressed again by the size of the Fort Worth Central Market grocery store when we went to pick stuff up) Was cool to watch shows on the home theater setup they have . . . To be amazed go to this page on Floyd’s website.
Just an overall fun time which was exactly what I needed. The first half of this year has not been great. Here’s to the second half!

While there I stayed at the Five Star Inn located in Burleson, TX . . .

I won’t say much else except I’m looking forward to more mainstream hotels going up nearby. Should be ready by next year.
Pictures of the room I stayed in as well as pictures and video of the reunion can be found below . . .

I’ll resize the pictures later . . . Maybe even post more. There are a lot more pictures that were taken than what I’m putting here. I’m being lazy for now and just wanted to get something. They’ll look correct on screen but will take a while to load.