Sunday, August 25, 2013

Hot tubs

Sharene and I have been taking some nice time out to visit this place http://watercourseway.com/tub-rooms/. Watercourse Way is this very cool spa place in palo alto. It has several really cool spa rooms you can book for an hour at a time.



Each has a different theme and has a steam room or sauna included. It's easy relaxing and we are working our way through the rooms, the pic above is Six Dragon Flies.



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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Pandering




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Stuff

Last week we had a change team event and went to the ball game.


We were high up but good views; mostly I people watched.
I left earlyish because the next day I had to drive to Roseville for work. It's about 2hrs from San Fran. My HP counterpart was giving a half hour presentation then in the evening I went to dinner with a bunch of HP folk before driving home. Needless to say I was tired.
I am very happily back into running after putting my back out three weeks ago. OMG quite possibly the most painful thing ever.
Rose and Jo came and stayed for a week as well.



As a yummy treat Rose and Jo took us to the NZ pop-up restaurant in the America's cup village. In that typical NZ way Jo knew the guy who set it up and he was the first person we met!









Work is changing and I am taking on new responsibilities. My first year as a senior manager is over and I am now getting more insights and opportunities to do other things. I get the sense the opportunity to keep moving up the chain is there; at a minimum it's a four year journey to partner. I am not sure this is what I aspire to as it is heavily weighted towards sales and I like my delivery role. But I am keeping an open mind as I am now three years at ACN and the time has flown by. I've learnt a lot and done some unexpected things. It has been a very good move for me. It is also intense, demanding and no time to sit back and be complacent. As always, we shall see!

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Monday, August 19, 2013

Ranch update

Sharene the kids and I went to New Mexico to visit Karen and Brice on the ranch. It was amazing to be back. None of the old ranch staff are there now but I did feel a little like I was coming home.



Karen and Brice in great form and the kids say on a baby bill.



We went into Santa Fe and checked out the shops, toured the ranch, watched movies on the big screen, swum in the pool and ate great food!

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Location:Hanover St,Palo Alto,United States

Sunday, August 04, 2013

Arty stuff

Went to this awesome outdoor art tour today....in the Santa Cruz hills; private artists colony retreat. Booked months ago and went on the Directors tour....4 miles up and down the hills...very cool.

































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