I have definitely been working hard during the week days but I have been relaxing on the weekends. It really has made for a good balance.
Sticking with my trend of bloggin on Monday nights here I am again.
Last week I finished with some more edits for my sponsorship package, I am currently on my fourth draft. It is going very well but, lately I have been doing it in spare time at work, which has not happened much lately. Since I last wrote Corrie (who returned physically to the office on Friday), Lenny, and I have been working on reproducing documentation required by the government due to grant money they received from Obama's push to create jobs. We are have been hard at work putting together all of the documentation in an orderly fashion that is presentable. As of tonight it is three giant binders that I have all but put my own blood, sweat, and tears into. One of the more memorable events was all of the searching for documents, copying, and organizing I had gone through last week as I did what ever I could to help make our deadline (which happens to be tomorrow afternoon). Although Corrie and Lenny have done all of the writing and formulating for the project I have done a the brunt of the grunt work and although I have a new hate for overheating copy machines (they both died on me at some point in the day on Friday and one is now out of ink). I stayed late tonight to hole punch and put some finishing touches on the binders and I also did some calculations for how many jobs we created with their grant money. So it has been a long week or so but, I will feel very rewarded when I get to deliver the documents tomorrow afternoon.
I also put together a three page sponsorship package for a business that they are meeting with tomorrow. I got to make drafts, corrections, and deliver it to the president of ROC for him to look at and make comments on. But, hopefully get a nice sized sponsor and I know I helped it happen. So as you can imagine I am very excited to see how that goes. A few of the side projects I have been working on are I heart Robots campaign ideas, planning a business cocktail party (in order to get sponsors) and various other sponsorship and marketing ideas.
But this past weekend the two big highlights were eating Hula Pie at Dukes on the beachfront and going to Pearl Harbor.
I spent the day at the beach on Saturday and then I made my way to Dukes to have this famous Hula Pie I have heard about and enjoy the chance of getting to eat down on the beach. I had very enjoyable time at Dukes, it was a great restaurant with an amazing view and atmosphere. The Hula Pie was definitely work my time all by its self though but it was a lot of fun to spend the day at the beach and then just sit back and relax eating some great food.
Pearl Harbor was an amazing and heart touching experience, if you are ever to Oahu, you have to go.
I felt that it did the history of the battle of Pearl Harbor great justice and gave visitors a great opportunity to pay their respects to those who were at Pearl Harbor, those who died at Pearl Harbor, and all of those involved in WWII. The museums were fantastic and the memorials were great to see. I took a few pictures of the USS Blowfin, nicknamed the Pearl Harbor Avenger, because it was launched exactly one year after Pearl Harbor. It was a very pleasant reminder to be thankful for all those who have served and are serving our nation.
Well I will be on my way home in 9 days now and the time here just keeps going faster and faster.
Lots to do and so little time.
-Travis
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