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100 Days of Global Corporate Fitness Challenge

What a great and fun way to get employees competing as teams and resulting in better health which reduces overall health costs to the employer and makes the employees feel better. This is one of those things that make Autodesk one of the best employers to work for…

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Fall Is Coming

For those of us in the upper Northern hemisphere the Fall season is approaching s we relinquish the warmer weather and sun to our friends in the Southern hemisphere.Below are a couple photos I took last weekend while hiking Stewart Falls in Northern Utah with good friends.

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They Grow Up So Very Fast – Happy Birthday Katie

My daughter Katelyn "Katie" turns 13 years old, and becomes an official teenager tomorrow which is technically now in Australia which is now 12:00AM August 1st, 2014 in Perth. She has always been my princess and it is both an honor and pleasure to watch her grow from…

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Please Vote to Support Virunga’s Impact Challenge

My good friend and respected paleontologist Dr. Louise Leakey tells me we are in the final hours to vote to support ‪‎Virunga‬'s Google Impact Challenge‬! Help Virunga Foundation win £500,000 and Google's support to protect wildlife and communities. It only takes a couple seconds to vote, and you…

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My Weekend

Be active, healthy, and happy. Cecret Lake in Little Cottonwood Canyon (40°34′12″N 111°37′19″W / 40.570°N 111.622°W) is located about 20 minutes from where I live, and is a great place to hike and chill before starting another busy work week. The amazing wildflowers are just now starting to…

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Ultimate Mid-Summer Cool Down – Verruckt

I have been dealing with the hot Summer heat even triple digits for awhile now and anything cool and wet sounds like a great idea. I just happened to read that Autodesk customer Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City had built a huge waterslide named Verruckt (means insane in…

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Dude – Where’s My iPad Mini

An acquaintance of mine Luke Freiler shared with me an experience that I have had nightmares about. Luke was driving to work and realized his iPad Mini was missing and didn’t know where it was. Hopefully on the kitchen counter at home I am sure was the thought…

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Just What I Needed

I just returned late last night from a week in Southern California with my kids where we attended a memorial horse race held in honor of my late grand father. We also fit in a visit with a friend and Hollywood car man Eddie Paul where my kids…

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Underwater Spring Cleanup

This past weekend I spent some time underwater scuba diving and picking up debris in the small Spanish Oaks Reservoir. The water ranged from 48-52 degrees Fahrenheit. I was fine scuba diving in a 7mm wetsuit with a hood and gloves except my face which felt like I…

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Be Prepared for Digital Disasters

This week was a tough one for me and my laptop. On Tuesday my machine started acting wonky where Windows explorer would not show previews of files and then Microsoft Outlook would not allow me to type in the body of an email.. I decided what most people…

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