Rick's Big Blog: April 2011

Well, I have now been in South Florida for exactly 20 days! To be exact I am living in Parkland, Florida. It's just a little northwest of Ft. Lauderdale and thank goodness it is one of the nicer areas around here. The drive was VERY long from Utah to South Florida but luckily I have an amazing sister who lives in Iowa and wonderful parents in Alabama, so I had places to stay and rest along the trip. Still though I was exhausted and dazed after the long trek. This is how I looked and felt.

For the most part I have been extremely busy with work. Some days I start working at about 9am and then finish at like 11pm, some days even later! But most of this didn't come as a surprise to me since this is my fifth year working for Vivint. I'm the operations manager for our south Florida office, which means I manage the whole installation side of things - everything from scheduling to inventory to making sure that at the end of the day the customers' systems are installed correctly and in a timely manner. Most of my technicians this summer are new. Like fresh off the boat new. But they are learning quickly and I'm excited for them to earn a good living.

Surprisingly I've only been to the beach twice in the three weeks I've been here. Can you believe that? Once I get a more routine daily schedule I'll be able to go more often. Nevertheless, here are a few photos I took at the beach the second day I was here. By the time I actually made it over there, it was nearly dark so I had to take these pics with the shutter speed slowed way down and they are sort of blurry.