Larissa's "when she feels like writing stuff" page

Yep, house still on market- just dropped the price to $7k, had 2 people look at it this weekend; yanno, the normal first couple of folks that check out the place after a new listing or price change...

Friday I went to a 20 yr anniversary company (one of my vendor's)/customer apprectiation meeting. I had a really fun time. The company's revenue was 100 million in 2006, made from 160 employees. I haven't yet done research, but really curious how these figures measure up to other 20 yr old tech companies. Since this was a special event, Ashwin Rangan, CIO of Walmart, spoke about on how to utilize the trends to attract and retain the public. Ashwin is a very mellow, very respectable, intelligent man. Ashwin's speech was very knowledgable and capturing. I had the fortunate experience of sitting at the table with the CEO of Sigmanet, Sigmanet's executive's coach, Ashwin, and others from HP and Shea Properties.
Unfortunately I didn't get to talk to Ashwin as much as I had hoped for. I did get to talk closely with the the executive's coach as well as the CEO's wife. This experience was very interesting! To sit at the table with the CEO of a rapidly growing company, the CIO of a huge corporation that has changed America, and many other IT colleagues, was a very cool experience.
Cisco Systems received an award from Sigmanet- one of the top 10 purchasers for 2006. It was pretty cool to receive since I was the only Cisco employee there (majority of business is from other groups in Cisco). I will place the nice crystal award on my desk.
I spent Saturday night at a Christmas party that included a gift exchange- a game of greed, doubles and heat. It was a ravishing event! My friend, Ellen (who accompanied me) requested we do this game with some of our other friends- it is now on the agenda.
Sunday I spent the day watching football (ha- well it is football season), oil changing on car and vacuuming/cleaning inside of car (it was filthy). I just finished giving Mario a mock interview for his 3rd interview for Clovis (well 2nd + written). He is excited, but nervous. I am really excited for him!

And now- on with the week....