Journal
Staying in Boise
24 December 2005 › 11 comments
I hope everyone is having a good Christmas break with friends and family. I just had to sneak a little bit of time at the computer to report this: Albertson’s recently announced that the company as a whole is no longer for sale, and they have officially closed bidding. This means that the company HQ will be staying in Boise. My wife and I breathed a sigh of relief when we saw this on the Idaho Statesman website. Here is a quote from our CEO Larry Johnston:
We will no longer be focusing on the sale of the company. We plan to continue to grow our profitable grocery business, create a more compelling shopping experience and grow our free-standing drugstore business. – Source
Needless to say, we are happy about the news, having only moved to Idaho from Kentucky in September. This is good for two reasons: First, my family is in Pullman, Washington which is only a six hour drive. Secondly, it is a great priviledge being a member of a cohesive Design Services team that is focused on developing projects with web standards in mind.
I feel that God is blessing us far more than we deserve. This is a great Christmas present: getting to stay in a city that we have grown to love, working in jobs that utilize our areas of interest, and being close to family. I pray that the Lord will smile upon you and your loved ones during this season. Let us remember and give thanks for all that the Lord Jesus has done for us.
Discussion + Dissension
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#1 Yannick
Happy to hear you don’t have to worry about that anymore Nathan. God is truly good and wonderful. He has blessed us all more then we deserve. What a wonderful God we serve eh?
Peace and God Bless you and your family. God’s richest blessings on you all.
Merry Christmas!
#2 Cody Lindley
I’ll give a big shout out of ditto on this entry!
#3 Nathan Smith
Thanks Yannick. Cody: Congrats on being a new father! Nearly eight pounds, that’s gonna be a big kid. You gotta get him started on coding right away. Either that, or prosecuting people so he can follow in his mom’s footsteps.
#4 Jesse J. Anderson
Your family lives in Pullman?
Jeez, whatever for? All they have there is a college and lots of alcohol.
Anyways congrads on not having to move. =)
#5 Nathan Smith
Jesse: Yeah, my dad is retired Air Force. He taught ROTC at Washington State University for the last few yaers of his career, and just decided to stay there. That’s so true though. I went to college at WSU, and that’s really all people did, just drink and (sometimes) go to classes. Luckily for me, I fell in with a “good crowd” when in college, so I got more involved in campus ministry.
#6 Jesse J. Anderson
There’s a good crowd at WSU? =)
j/k I have a couple of co-workers that went there and all I really hear about is drinking stories.
Actually you might know my buddy, Brian MacMillan. I’m not sure what years he went there but probably sometime around when you did.
#7 Nathan Smith
Jesse: Hmm, that name doesn’t sound familiar, sorry. Which campus ministry group was he involved in? I was at Campus Christian Fellowship. There is also Campus Crusade, etc. I was there from the fall of 1999 to summer of 2002.
#8 Jesse J. Anderson
Actually he wasn’t, but he was super involved in drama and I saw on your about page you were involved in that too so I thought you may have crossed paths. But he didn’t recognize your name so maybe not. =)
#9 theUg
Ha ha, go figure. Accidentally got here from another blog to the stats page. Seen the referrers to FireFox vs Opera. Read, fired up, ripped back at ya. :) Now I looked through the journal and bam!, Boise, all of a sudden. The world is truly small, for we’re fellow Boise citizens, as it appears. Go BSU! :)
As for Albertson’s, they’re decent, but not perfect, so I am selective about my shopping there. A lot of people feel wee bit harsher about service and prices though. ;)
#10 Nathan Smith
TheUg: Hey, I got your email. That is cool that you are here in Boise. Indeed, it is a small world. I didn’t respond on the Firefox vs. Opera topic, since it is now a bit dated, and I have since been corrected numerous times, by kind people such as yourself, regarding my ignorance of the mighty Opera. ;)
#11 theUg
It was the segment from the series titled “What you should know”. :) So long as you read it, you might picked some more knowledge. Someone will read it later as well, and gain some power too, for knowledge is power. Which is not always good from religious standpoint (that is, I separate faith, and church as an organisation).
Anyhow, enough of my iconoclastic rumblings. :) As for Opera vs. FF, the point is that we really shouldn’t fight, for all is all we just got ourselves more standart-compliant choices, which will take away more from a dominance of you-know-who, and lessen our head-aches from development (Comparing with, say, five years ago, what we have now is a paradise, though. :)).
I just wish the governments would start strictly enforce requirements by legislations like 508 in US. Then the problem of standard-compliance and of barriers imposed by using proprietary technologies will dissappear by itself…
Ah, I’ve started quite an offtopic once more. My apologies. :)