Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Getting started with our blog !!

Wow ! My first blog - a great social phenomenon !! I've been meaning to do this, just haven't gotten around to it - I did start my website, but I've neglected that lately.

Hopefully I can get back in the swing of things now that I've finally got a job !!

I started Monday Jan. 26th as a pre-sales Storage Solution Architect for CDW- Berbee for the NYC-NJ area. My focus is on working with the sales team to increase our NetApp storage sales and virtualization with VMware in the Microsoft server space - it's a great job, and I'm very excited. I officially get to work from home although the office is only about 7 miles from here, so no commute. I will be expected to make about 20 or so sales calls a month with the sales team as we get rolling, but little or no deployment, so few or no nights or weekends - very exciting !! Christa is greatly relieved and very pleased, as am I - out of all the jobs I interviewed for during the months I was laid off this is the one I most wanted - hoorah !!

The people in our ward are also very excited - we've had a lot of people move out, with Fort Monmouth closing down over the next two years, and we have several key families that will be leaving this year or next - so people in the ward who were praying for me to find a job are greatly relieved, and it seems the Lord is telling us there's more work to do here in Eatontown NJ ward. for now, I am enjoying my fourth year as Gospel Doctrine teacher. I love the Doctrine and Covenants, and am really looking forward to this year's class !

Christa is very excited about the new job - we hope it gives us the freedom to be able to see our family out west more - Dave and Heidi and kids in CO, Shanns, Scott and kids in UT, Grandpa Bacon in Sandy / St George, my mom in Panaca NV, and Cheri in the Bay area - we think of all of you constantly, and hope to see you more - we are committed to use our vacation time for focused visits on family while we can. Christa hasn't been feeling well,s truggling with the flu and some stomach flu or distress, perhaps worry and stress over the job situation, now happily resolved. Hopefully she'll be able to improve now.

Enough for now - will blog again soon - thanks to any who come to read !!

8 comments:

  1. Hi Bro Boyd:) I found you through Heidi's blog. It sounds you like in the area taht my mother's side of the family lived forever ago. It's on my geneology trip whenever that day comes.

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  2. it's so good to hear from you, chuck and christa. you live in a lovely part of the country. i've been in that area several times, and love to visit it. NJ, NY, NH-all of it is just wonderful to see. good for you, getting the job of your choice! i'm happy for you. tell us all something about where you live, how far are you from the ocean, what villages are you near, what do you do for fun and recreation, etc. it's always good to have a ward family who loves you and wants you to stay with them. christa, are you still cooking like a pro? have you considered actually going pro? seems like, in that area, there would probably be some little culinary arts school that would then afford you the 'license' to cook for a profession. but you are probably too busy with life as it is. let us know what you think. i think of you both fondly.

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  3. yeah!!! good job pops. congrats on your blog and our new job!!!
    luv ya lots

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  4. i hope to hear from you soon, i have an AARP letter for christa. if it's important(like a new card or something) i'd be happy to forward it. then i would need your address-let me know.
    i'm not converted to blogging, but am enjoying heidi's; and it was good to hear a little of your lives. hey, post again and i'll make comments. my email is sally7kids@yahoo.com if you want to send your address. hope all is well for you both...

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  5. uh...hello...it dosent take that long to update your blog....i know your working 23 hours a day...it only takes 5 min for those of us that wonder about jersey life and stress and drama!

    xoxoxoxoxo luv-banana

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  6. Hallelujah! I think I found you, my long lost friends, the Boyds! I am blogging you through my daughter Nicole, as I am not a blogger. Please contact me! I would LOVE to hear form you, Christa, or anyone! My email address is calleenjones@gmail.com or even give me a call at 801-687-0569.
    Love, Calleen Carman (now Jones)

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  7. Chuck,
    I hope that I am contacting the right person. This is Mark Lindsay from Hemet, California. I would love to talk with you. My email address is mdlindsay@orem.org.

    Mark

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  8. CHUCK AND CHRISTA BOYD, IF YOU EVER LIVED IN BLANCHARD, ID OR KNOW OF A ELDER BOYD PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL. DONT BE ALARMED, I JUST HAVE SOMETHING YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN. spokanegonzo@hotmail.com

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