TGIF

Woo Hoo, we have made it to the end of another week, and it's Friday!!!! I have a few minutes at work waiting on some data, so I thought I would take a few minutes out to BLOG. I hope everyone has had a good week.

* I may have a big decision to make here in the next few weeks. I plan on being out of town next Thursday night and Friday day. I'm not going to say anything over the internet as to any specifics, but I am shall we say testing my marketability.

* Speaking of Marketability. Rumors had it this week that WVU head basketball coach John Beilein was leaving WVU and heading to NC State. He never addresses any rumors, but he did manage to officially address this one stating that the rumors were erroneous. We still have the nations best basketball coach in Morgantown for all of those concerned.

* Our softball team finally has its schedule. :

Mon May 1 - 9pm - Whiston vs Suncrest Gym ( Formerly Shockers)
Mon May 8 - 9pm - Liberatore at Webworks ( formerly Kingdom Ent.)
Thu May 11 - 6pm - Ogden at Finish Line Motors
Mon May 15 - 6pm - Ogden vs March Westin
Sat May 20 - 7pm - Whiston at John Howard
Sun May 21 - 3pm - Whiston vs Panrell Construction (formerly WUPA)
Mon May 22 - 10pm - Liberatore at Sunnyside Superette
Thu Jun 1 - 10pm - Whiston vs DP Dough
Mon Jun 5 - 9pm - Whiston vs Advantage
Mon Jun 12 - 7pm - Liberatore at Progressive Industries
Thu Jun 15 - 7pm - Ogden at Kuntry Kreme Hillbillies ( Brian Judy's
team aka my OLD team)
Mon Jun 19 - 7pm - Whiston vs Nutty Cs
Mon Jun 26 - 8pm - Liberatore at Town Hill
Thu Jul 6 - 7pm - Ogden vs Frank's
Mon Jul 10 - 8pm - Liberatore vs Summers
Mon Jul 17 - 10pm - Whiston at Wendy's
Mon Jul 24 - 7pm - Whiston vs Chestnut Ridge Blue
Mon Jul 31 - 6pm - Ogden at Chippy's
Mon Aug 7 - 9pm - Whiston vs Colasante's
Thu Aug 10 - 9pm - Whiston at The Backdoor

Should be a very interesting year.

* The NFL Draft is this weekend. I may be able to ignore it most of the first day, being my team is the defending Super Bowl Champions and will pick last.

* Off the top of my head, I'm not sure what I have planned for this weekend. I think something is planned, but not real sure. I guess that comes with age or hair loss, one of the two.

* Moke will graduate May 27th of this year from Clay Battelle. Make a note on you calender to be there. Maybe I should have told Moke that Frank Skubis was my next door neighbor for years and he was actually my Gym teacher at Suncrest when he left to go to Clay Battelle.

* Amy will also be graduating from MTECH this year also. I believe this will be her third certification from MTECH that she will have completed.

* I officially no longer work for VARGIS, they have merged with our parent company Infotech. Thisn is the official statement:

VARGIS is now Infotech Enterprises America

Sterling, VA 04/21/2006: VARGIS LLC announced today that it is merging its operations with its corporate parent, Infotech Enterprises America, Inc. and will be known by that name beginning April 24th 2006. The complete VARGIS leadership and expert technical staff remain intact, and are now backed by the resources of 4,000 associates, including more than 2,200 geospatial professionals worldwide with expertise in data management, software development, conversion, migration and photogrammetry. Infotech is a recognized leader in geospatial and engineering solutions in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific markets.

Infotech’s geospatial business in North America has witnessed exceptional growth this past year based on major contracts with LA County, the State of New York, Public Service Electric & Gas (PSEG), McGraw Hill, GE Energy, Rand McNally and other clients. The company continued its strong penetration within the utilities, government and transportation markets resulting in a 200% increase in new contracts for the fiscal year ended 3/31/06 and a year-on-year revenue growth of 76% for the same period.

Commenting on the company’s new identity and synergy with its parent organization, Greg Tilley, President – Geospatial Solutions Division, said, “The business, technical and execution strengths of the global Infotech Enterprises organization give us greater leverage to deliver expert geospatial solutions in North American markets. Our clients will benefit from the domain and technical expertise, sophisticated processes and global delivery model that have underpinned Infotech’s success with businesses and governments worldwide.”

* I hope everyone has had a good week and they have memorable plans for the weekend.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.-- Demosthenes