Steve Allen's Wild Ride

Sunday, July 7, 2019

Firecracker Open Was a Bust, But Weekend was Outstanding

Well, we had a great July 4th weekend except for watching Hunter play in the Firecracker Open Golf Match. Hunter shot 2 under in the qualifier the week prior so he went in with high hopes. The temperature and humidity were both high and Cecile, Shelby, and I had to walk so it was brutal. Hunter ended up shooting like +9 over the three rounds...OUCH!!

Monday, July 1, 2019

Update - Part Two

Some other updates to get you up to date is that Shelby is going to try out a new job. They are asking folks to come in and do the job for a day or so before telling them they got the job. Weird.

Cecile is looking to do some work for 6 or so months, so Cigna is looking for some call support assistance, so she may get that job soon. While we are talking employment, Taylor got a promotion and raise at VMWare. She also moved to a building that is closer to our house which is also good.

Hunter has entered into two golf tournaments: The Austin Firecracker Open (City Amateur Championship), which as been going on since 1946!! Let's hope he does well. Hunter is also signed up for his first PGA qualifier match tournament in Dallas in a few weeks. The competition there will be very high for sure.

Exiting news: We broke ground last week on our new house that Cecile and I are building in the Travisso subdivision out 1431 towards Volente. It should be ready to move in around January/February. 1-story and is smaller than what we have now...which is what we wanted.

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Total Update for Everyone - Part 1

Where to I start. Sorry for not posting anything to this blog almost 2 years. We have had a bunch of great changes in our adventure.

Hunter graduated from Culver-Stockton College with a Sports Management degree. He decided to pursue a career as a professional golfer, so he packed up his truck to the top and is now living with us in Austin. He also convinced his girlfriend, Shelby to come down to Austin and she is very busy seeking work. She is amazing and good for Hunter, she will not have a problem getting her career started again here.

Taylor and Brett are now engaged and have their wedding scheduled for late December of 2019. They are right now going through the planning process and getting venues, catering, and so forth figured out and it is funny to see how everyone is handling the stress.

For a bit of bad news. Both HG and Mary Hawthorne (Cecile's parents) have passed away. HG was the first to pass after dealing with Dementia in 2018. Mary was getting more and more fraile, had to have hip surgery, and she too at the end was dealing with Dementia. She passed away in early 2019.

Derek has graduated high school. Then he took 8 months or so and traveled throughout Europe. I think the best country he liked was Germany. After a good 9 months is going from job to job, he has landed a job that he really likes at MOD Pizza close to where we live. Oh, did I mention that Derek is living with us so he can get on his feet. One of the things he purchased was an electric scooter that he uses to get to work and around places. With a little more life coaching, we feel he will be able to get out on his own...let's see.

More news to come soon.

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Hunter is in Town for the Summer

Hunter completed his sophomore year at Lincoln College and played on the golf team for both years. He managed to qualify for Nationals as an individual and did very well in those matches as well.

He is transferring to Culver Stockton College to play the next two years at a Division 1 school. He is getting some coaching from his swing coach here in Austin. He has also entered into 3 golf tournaments: Austin Mens City Championship, GC of Houston Championship, and the AT&T San Antonio Championship. Let's see what he can do in these tournaments with some serious amateur competition. His game has been getting very good...he is like a scratch golfer...makes me sick :)

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Made a Career Move: Pace to Q2ebanking.com

After almost 8 years of working in the embedded firmware development and test environment, I determined that Pace Americas, who just got bought out by ARRIS will not be growing in technology and/or products and customer base, so I started looking for another opportunity.

I reached out to my contacts and as it turns out, Bill Elderton whom I worked with at Motive and 2Wire needed someone to come to Q2ebanking and help get the test engineering department turned around and I was up to the challenge. It is very refreshing and I am charged up to help solve problems for such a great, high growth company.

Check them out at www.q2ebanking.com