Friday, December 5, 2008

Don't Worry.....Be Happy


This somehow must tie in to the Law of Attraction, from The Secret.............this energy is there what/who are we attracting.  Apparently this new reseach is a big deal in the Mental Health community so perhaps it is a "happy moment" that I came across this article and sharing it with you.  Kind of a "rippling effect."

From the Boston Globe:
New reason to be happy: It may go a long way

FUNNY VIDEO to start you smiling  

Gotta go now, I need to post an ad on Craigslist for "Happy People within One Mile of Lenox"




Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Time for a Flu Shot or Not?

I came across this article by someone I recently met on LinkedIn -- thought the info was interesting and like her -- I'm passing this on.

Just the other I was talking abt the flu shot and how for the last few years I haven't gotten one -- maintained some good wellness practices, and never got the flu, while last year the flu ravaged through the US -- like a "Wild Fire in California" -- while I'm not telling anyone not to get a flu shot -- just read the info for yourself and form your own opinion.


Trust and Honor on the Internet
There is a link down at the bottom of the article giving credit to the original author -- in her blog she had listings for products one of which claimed to be a free trial for a meditation program -- so what do you think I did, well against my own better judgement I submitted my name and email address and pressed enter -- very trusting or stupid?  It was one of those emotional moments the blogger and advertiser were hoping would happen often.  This time I got away easy, w/o any malicious code being dumped onto my computer -- after reading through the whole blah..blah..claims and testimonials and at the bottom of the long drawn out page -- I discover that the creator of the meditation pays bloggers to drive traffic to his sight..............Moral -- as savvy as you think you are abt the net -- make sure your PC Security Software is current.

While I'm not telling you not to get a Flu Shot..........I will tell you that I'm not a Doctor, nor have I slept in a Holiday Inn recently.


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Campaign Trail Stops @ Middle School

The following was part of a discussion among mid-schoolers.  The setting was a weekend class about healthy eating, and fun in the kitchen......during some idol wait time the teacher asks, "What do you think about the presidential election?"

The children all had many same comments overheard by their parents, except one teen girl responded with a more unique comment.  "We're really voting for a Vice President, because either candidate might suddenly die........"

Friday, October 10, 2008

You Don't Have to Be JEWISH TO -- SCHLEP OUT THE VOTE

From the ridiculous to the sublime.

Here's a video link reminding all of us white people that some of us grew up in an era where segregation stood for something. That although many of us are well educated, that we are religious by nature, and believe in God -- we were raised and have behaved for most of our lives as "Segregationist"...........

You don't have to be Jewish to watch the following video by Sarah Silverman. Talk to your parents, your elders, and if they vote for McCain so be it -- but don't let it be for the "Same Old" reasons.

http://www.thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html

Jews are only 2% of the electorate however their vote is key in 9 states that are up for grabs -- including the infamous FLORIDA. Seniors of all races and religions tend to vote in higher numbers as a group than most others and so this vote is important.

Enjoy the video, and be aware Sarah Silverman's Sadie did not approve of this video she uses foul language -- in a comical way -- however be forewarned.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

My Presidential Debate

Let the debate begin.................
1. Read the post including the articles
2. Write your comment
Whenever I find someone to be over-extended in righteousness I always wonder if the person is hiding something. In my experience I have found this to be true a fair amount of time. So when I came across the following articles I felt it was worth passing on and at least something to talk about.

I Won't Vote for John McCain for President by Phillip Butler, PHD, former POW at same camp as John McCain

If you were willing to believe 4 years ago that John Kerry was not the War Hero, he was thought to be, then consider this..........it's okay to ask questions, to be informed, and debate among your friends and relatives -- and not these "Made for Primetime Events" we're all being treated to -- with scoring like it's a sporting event.

So, did you read the articles -- What do you think about that? Okay, want to debate -- get writing.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

I Can't Believe That's Butter

From the Lost Files:

I've been pretty flat out lately and so there hasn't been any new postings here, although there are several drafts like this one waiting to be finished.

Went to a friend's birthday party, now a few weeks ago.

We were asked to bring cupcakes instead of a birthday cake. Rich, decadent cupcakes that we're somewhat famous for. However the last few years we've pretty much eliminated butter from our diets. While we're still "omnivores" we have minimized dairy products, especially butterfat from our diets.

As famous as we are for our decadent chocolate treats -- we're equally famous for our Vegan baked treats. Well Barbara must have felt fanciful -- or was it just rushed for time and it was easier to make the recipe from the back of a hershey's cocoa container -- always good -- she used butter.

All night long people were going nuts over the cupcakes -- they devoured the cupcakes. I on the other hand didn't bother until I got home and had one of the cupcakes that didn't make the party..............there was this taste that I didn't care for. The cupcakes were nicely frosted. The chocolate cake was so moist, and rich tasting.

Do I daresay anything??

The next morning we're talking over coffee, and remarking about the "crazy" excitement over the cupcakes. Barbara casually mentions there was butter in the cupcakes.................Ah-ha, butter. Here was my opening -- I confessed about not quite liking the cupcakes and of this funny taste, that I now knew was the butter.

As I mentioned we've been eliminating dairy products from our diets when we can. To replace 1/2 and 1/2 in my coffee -- I ocassionally make Soy milk. Purchased a Soymilk Maker from a friend Rob, at The Chefs Shop, Great Barrington MA. Makes the best soy milk -- biggest drawback, it only makes a liter at a time -- it's delicious on granola, in coffee, even to drink. Everyone started drinking it it and I can't keep up with demand.

Are you thinking is this guy crazy? Making your own Soy Milk? Well it couldn't be easier to do and it resulted in us incorporating a new food in our diet -- Okara -- this protein and dietary fiber rich grain is the pulp left over after you pulverize the Non-GMO, Organic Soybeans into Soymilk. The machine pays for itself in a few weeks -- just look at the price of a gallon of Fat-Free Milk -- almost $4.00 gallon in our neighborhood -- 1 pound of Non GMO/Organic Soybeans are about $1.50 and will make over a gallon of delicious soy mlk.

Here are some interesting links to check out:
Cooking With Okara
Soyabella Soymilk Machines

Okay check back here in another few days..........."TTYL"

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Spring Has Sprung -- The Kayak Will Be On the Lake Soon!

I've had this "Bald" post sitting as a draft for some time -- It was inspired by a friend who fwd'd me some very funny YouTube Videos about men buying hair replacement supplies on-line and then creating their own hair piece to wear. The videos are pretty funny -- and creative at the same time. Checkout this video -- Meet Ron - A Hair Direct Mailorder Hair Replacement Client . Feel free to post a comment.


Last weekend I cleared some debris from a flower bed and as if animated bulb flowers, crocus, daffodils, tulips, poked through the ground in 2 hours. Go Spring. Aside from the mud this has got to be my most exciting season. Lot of intense energy in the universe happening right now. Birth...............for me it means I lived to see another year of this cycle. Having spent my whole life in the Northeast my experience is around the classic four seasons. It would seem very different to live with out the same environmental change the we go through in the Northeast.


Great Music Site -- Last.FM
If you haven't yet discovered http://last.fm yet I highly recommend it. Last.FM is kind of like MySpace for music lovers. No you don't setup your own page -- however you do get to select your own style of music and the computer catalogs a user's music styles and then you can pick a list of Neighbors -- music that other users are listening to. Like many music sites it has a free and some additional pay features. ......I typically go with the free and if I want to buy some music that is the idea. Just check it out. Once you download their free software player you get to request specific artist and then let them mix in similar artists. There are several neat things about Last.FM -- perhaps the best is you'll hear lots of great music for hours on end. If you miss the old liner notes since you've been downloading your music -- Last.FM has you covered here too. I just discovered a whole series of artists that have been around forever. Meredith Monk Other artists new for me are John Cage, Steve Reich. The really, really, really cool thing about Last.FM is if you're a band you can actually upload your original music to the site and drive traffic to your Amazon site for people to purchase MP3's or a CD.


File Sharing for Music -- Limewire
To get a sample of some of John Cage's visit another favorite site of mine, Limewire -- it's a file sharing site -- you get to share music together with other users. File Sharing Explained briefly -- File Sharing is like going to the library and taking out a book reading it. One copy used by many people. This maybe somewhat oversimplified, however users all make certain folders on their computers containing music, videos, pictures available to other "peers" along this big File sharing Network. Much like the Free Public Library the same book is there to be borrowed and read any time you like -- all with a single license being sold, over and over, and over again.


Bye for now -- gotta go make another batch of my homemade laundry detergent -- there are 10 recipes -- I've tried #1 and it works just great.

See You On The Lake!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Positive and Negative Energy....or Why did my day turn out so...........


Being in the people business, dealing with lots of freelance contractors -- I am constantly dealing with many different types of people. Some that I know already and many new people. What I've learned is that people are people, different color skins, different heights and weights, different religious backgrounds, the list of differences goes on -- in the physical world.

Since most of my work is conducted over the phone or the internet -- it isn't really the physical differences I deal with daily -- it is the "emotional soup" that surrounds people. And in this area people are not that different. An example of what I'm saying is simple -- if I took 100 people and held their hand over an open flame the reaction would be universal. Okay let's try a more difficult example -- the economy is weak, freelance jobs are scarce, more competitive and your "Sub-Prime" Mortgage is set to re-adjust. That same 100 people will not act the same.

Are you an Optimist or a Pessimist? Is your glass half empty, or half full? Are you quick to predict the sky is falling just b/c a cloud moved in front of the sun?

Now if you're 5'10" and weigh 300lbs you might need to buy an extra seat to fly Southwest Air, not much you can do about that. However if you're nickname is "Chicken-Little" b/c your friends know that you are the first to predict the end of the world -- I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be that way.

Are you a "Yeller" and "Screamer"? When you get up tight are you the type of person that wants to share your misery? Or are you someone that is admired for being "Unflappable"? Many of the people I deal with daily don't realize that even with their most intimate circle of friends, colleagues, and relatives the "Screamer" the "Negative Thinker" is scary for the rest of us. Not only is it scary YOUR NEGATIVE ENERGY can contamnate everyone you come in contact.

The other day I was working jointly with a colleague on a project. This is a great opportunity and very lucrative for both our firms, and a very challenging situation at the same time. I suggested we take a break from the office and go out and make some customer calls. He is also involved in another business with his wife who is a "Yeller/Screamer" personality and decided to stay in his office and try to diffuse and buffer the situation with his wife and employees, while at the same time he said he would be more productive trying to finish up the work on our project. I knew better and decided to go my own way and have an enjoyable afternoon. In the end the negativity that he incurred not only filled inside of him, he proceeded to become a CONDUCTOR or AGENT of negativity -- not realizing that he was in a very negative space and in the end did not accomplish anything the remainder of the afternoon -- which led to a bout with depression. Later in the day I picked up where I left off and managed to finish the project to be delivered to ht e client by the deadline -- I felt good about things -- however my colleague was so down and beat up -- he had a hard time getting excited.

Hey I'm not telling you all this b/c I'm a mental health practioner, or that I'm so much more evolved than anyone reading this -- I'm only human. You may run into a cab driver some day like a friend of mine who is a very successful lawyer. Please read on....................

This lawyer friend was involved in a series of tough cases, long depositions. The day would be hell for anyone, and then she stepped into a taxi to try and get to a family gathering in NYC and she was already late and greeted the driver with some urgency. The cab driver then proceeded to try and get my friend relaxed asking how her day was, and it was obvious she was in this NEGATIVE SPACE -- however none of it had anything to do with the cab driver, or his taxi...........Finally becoming exasperated with his passenger the cab driver said to my friend -- "Lady, you have a nice job? You live in a nice town with a nice house? You have a nice family, your children? From your attire you earn good money, wear nice clothes? So what do you have to complain about? If you don't change your attitude you will have to get out of my taxi -- Do you understand?" My friend proceeded to slink back in her seat and got quiet -- she did in fact calm down -- here was this cab driver probably not earning 10% of what my friend earns in a year, and he had the right advice for her at that moment. Of course he got a big tip at the end of the ride. My friend arrived to her family gathering extremely late -- but it wasn't b/c of the cab driver. The cab driver knew how damaging that type of negative energy could be in his line of work, and was willing to sacrifice a nice tip from a well dressed lawyer -- just to be rid of it and not becoming contaminated with that negativity.

Some helpful inks:
http://www.whatthebleep.com/
http://thesecret.tv/

We all know people like this -- how we deal with it -- and realizing the effect it will have on us and those around us is profound. My point in sharing all of this with you is -- recognize these dynamics -- even in yourself -- know when to take a break -- step away from the phone and desk -- change your atmosphere if you can -- meditate -- do some breathing exercises. If you've breathed in some negative vibe -- just let it go and it will pass. However one thing is for sure -- if you choose like my colleague did to stay and spend an afternoon trying to work in that environment be prepared to be enveloped by it -- and 4 hours later you may find yourself with little accomplished and the worst hangover you've ever experienced.

I'm not selling you anything here. I'm not asking you to buy anything -- this info and the links above may be helpful. When you look at yourself, your friends, your children -- when you look at your day yet to unfold -- is your mind open to possibility, or is the outcome already figured out by you. What are you attracting?


Have a great day!

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Another Wrong Turn, and Where Has The Time Gone



As anyone that has spent considerable time at the computer, uh-oh it's 4pm and I promised myself and the dog a walk in the wilderness park.

Lately I've been researching some projects. Here are two interesting "Wrong Turns" -- I clicked, when I might have just closed the window. In the end I'm glad I did! Enjoy.

So I had a name of someone that I wanted to send an email to as i had found a couple of her pictures i really liked and want to get her consent to use them. I tried Googling her name and I wound up finding her name associated to this story. After reading it Istill have no idea it is her -- there may be more adventure here.....

http://www.triviaguys.com/whtexam.htm
Interesting story about 2 juveniles that survived an aluminum boat mishap in 1960.

Staying with I was working in Picassa, the photo community similar to Flickr. I clicked on an ad that took me to a really cool site I wanted to pass on. -- ANIMOTO

ANIMOTO has this kind of online movie generator from your own files -- so far I've only done it with still shots, however it adds allthe special treatments to your shots and you pick the music type. I did this 30 second video in less than 5 minutes. In fact uploading the photos took the longest.

http://animoto.com/play/fOav4akHyrUmqXiU0GWRXQ

It's free to generate these little 30 second vids -- longers vids cost $3.00 altogether very cool. Do read the "t&c's" like anyo of this stuff you are basically sharing your content in a public community.

Alright I'm going to walk the dog!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

I Just Got Sci-Fi'd


It was quite by chance and I must admit I've since calmed myself down. In fact I didn't realize it until it happened. I'm willing to bet something similar has happened to you and only b/c there isn't a clear way to communicate the concept -- most of us pass through several emotions not realizing that yes you've been Sci-Fi'd too.

I'm currently reading a book by Michael Crichton one of my favorite authors called "Timeline" -- the book is about the convergence of technologies in the field of Quantum Physics, and problems that arise out of time travel. What I especially love about Michael Crichton is that as a trained medical doctor he uses his understanding of science and biology to create thrillers and connects the dots in such a perfect way that as a lay person I never know if he even made something up. To me, I forget that he' s a novelist and sometimes for entertainment willingly accept some of what he is proposing. In "Timeline" a company has developed the ability to do "Trekky Travel." Yes having their molecular composition transported from Point A to Point B. "Trekky Travel" premiered on TV some 30 years ago, and was performed in simulated outer space with fancy costumes, filmed in elaborate TV/Movie Studio sets, it was easy to be entertained and let yourself make believe. What is somewhat scary about this book is this is clearly a concept we are not too far away from and the storyline takes place here in the US and pretty much the same period as we're living now.

Space Travel for us civilians will take place in most of our lifetimes -- time to get seriously Sci-Fi'd. A blogger friend of mine upon first being introduced told me -- matter of factly -- she is currently booked on Richard Branson's, Virgin Galactic, Space Plane. Talk about being Sci-Fi'd -- What do you say to that? "Send me a postcard, bring me back something -- What do you mean like what? -- surely there is at least a Wal-Mart there right?"

Still don't know what I'm talking about?
To be Sci-Fi'd is to do something or to experience something that only a few years ago seemed not only improbable -- you would never have thought to ask about it.

This morning I spent sometime interviewing new phone companies for telecom service for Berkshire Grain, a new business interest. Since we don't have any offices and our partners are spread out in different cities the question is where do you setup an office and why. We each have our own offices already, and since we're indirectly involved in the manufacturing and shipping of our products, we have no equipment or dedicated inventory warehouse space, our administrative support and bookkeeping is handled likewise by 3rd parties -- so where would you put the office and why? By now you might be thinking so why am I talking to phone companies -- without offices where would the phones go.

Welcome to the Virtual Business World. Everyone has had occasion to call a consumer electronics, software or an appliance company and even though you may have bought your product at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, or Small Town Main Street Appliances the call is promptly answered in the usual robotic form prompting you to press this key or that, and generally within 10 seconds to 5 minutes you get connected to someone "Virtually" anywhere in the world -- it doesn't really matter -- unless of course there is a terrible language barrier -- hang up and just try again.

Convergent Technologies helps turn independent discoveries into complex solutions like some cars with integrated communications have the ability to not only answer a cell call from the touch of a button on your steering wheel, the system knows to turn the volume of your MP3 player down automatically. So imagine my amazement to find a company Aptela that will dedicate a toll-free phone number on their "Virtual PBX" (digital phone switchboard) and allow you to call us at Berkshire Grain and be prompted to dial my extension or my other business partners extension and be connected directly to us -- on our existing phones -- all without wires, no installer, no additional equipment............wait there is more I can conference, or transfer you to my partner in NYC, or California, or Amsterdam, Rio, anywhere in the world......all by just dialing his extension.

Not only didn't I not know such a thing existed before doing some research on the internet, after talking to my new friend at Aptela I felt good all over. I immediately called my friend signed up to travel in outer space and told her................I've just been Sci-Fi'd. Our new phone system will be in place, somewhere, in 2 weeks -- I just don't know where -- call me though.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Bottled Water.......You're Kidding Me Right?


What were your first thoughts when you saw your first pet rock. Or even way before that you heard about your neighbor getting cable tv, when your rabbit ear antenna was working fine. You might have had a grandparent say on more than one occasion what will they think of next.....

Then they must have run out of things to invent because they started bottling water and shipping it here from the Alps. In 1985 I ran in my first 10-k race in Central Park, Perrier was the water sponsor for the event. At a certain point I began to realize uh-oh, our water is going bad. New babies continued to arrive everyday, our population is not stagnant. In 1990 I predicted that whoever figures a way to flavor water will be a genius and make a fortune. Why? -- because we were polluting our planet so fast, destroying habitat, cutting down the forest..........the perfect nightmare is a bright sunny day in sub-Sahara Africa, except in this nightmare our own cities and towns look like that too. If we had any water left it would have to be so treated that like many municipalities already the safe drinking water is undrinkable based on taste alone. Hello Vitamin Water.

Just a week ago I heard about common backyard birds were found to have levels of almost every chemical we had used and no longer use, as in thrown away or stored improperly -- from anti-freeze to mercury. Then I got to thinking my dog goes out back to play in my yard, me and my children walk barefoot in our backyard, and so on and so on.

Sign Up For Earth Hour 2008 NOW! All the information you need can found by visiting the Earth Hour Website sign-up and join the movement.

I just started making my own chemical-free cleaners from a website I discovered -- actually there are lots of similar sites on the web. A link to a site I use is listed in the "Kevin's One Eye Links" section of this blog. I can tell you personally it is a lot of fun and so easy to do too. My family at first thought I was a bit crazy and just added it my list of craziness -- slowly everyone now sees the benefit of using Kevin's Brand Laundry Detergent. My wife couldn't get her face out of the freshly washed wet laundry today, and impulsively kept smelling her clothes -- funny thing is the clothes just smell fresh, odor free. The benefits of such a simple task has many rippling effects throughout our environment beyond being healthier and safer for you.

I guarantee that once you take the first step you won't stop there. And don't forget to share and tell each other about what you're doing. I told my bookkeeper about my laundry detergent and we got into a Holisitic discussion about Tea Tree Oil and how to treat a skin infection on my dog Roscoe, because of it's anti-bacterial properties. She also gave me a recipe for a natural personal deodorant, using something most of us already have in our homes. Use the comment tab below to share your own tips or you can also ask questions and someone will answer your question with an answer in the comment section too. Just like Earth Hour it starts with you -- creating community actions are great for some and maybe not for others in all cases though it starts within ourselves.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Stretching Your Gas $'s


The following info was found on Craiglist:
BTW, the picture on the right is of my first car -- gas was in the 20's back then as in 20 cents/gallon.

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon..

Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose , CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.

Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.

A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3)stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.

One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY. The reason for this is, the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.

Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up--most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom. Hope this will help you get the most value for your money.

DO SHARE THESE TIPS WITH OTHERS!

WHERE TO BUY USA GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON

Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us! The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor.

An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS.

Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends.

I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell........................... 205,742,000 barrels

Chevron/Texaco......... 144,332,000 barrels

Exxon /Mobil............... 130,082,000 barrels

Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels

Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels

Citgo gas is from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco..................0 barrels

Conoco..................0 barrels

Sinclair.................0 barrels

B P/Phillips............0 barrels

Hess.......................0 barrels

ARC0....................0 barrels

If you go to Sunoco.com, you will get a list of the station locations near you.

All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas
buyers. It's really simple to do.

Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) .. and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!

If it goes one level further, you guessed it ..... THREE HUND RED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would all that take?

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Females Everywhere

My wife and I have been married over 30 years, OMG how did this happen? What I can say is it took lots of fighting to get to this point. You win some and you lose some. At times though I must admit I was losing most of the disputes. Having grown up in a household of boys, no sisters - learning to live with a female, a woman of the 60's, well it took some adjusting. I'm still not saying I'm very good at the relationship thing. I guess what has changed is the perspective -- winning or losing, has been replaced by working to be happy.

We were empty nestors for many of those years, and never really knew if we'd have any children of our own. I know now that those 18 years were probably more difficult for our parents than it was for Barbara
and I. Many of those years were just enjoyed being free, and then suddenly when we wanted to start a family we discovered getting pregnant wasn't so easy. It was fun trying, however the disappointment soon filled us with resignation that maybe we had missed out and God had other plans for us.

We were fortunate in the end and we
have 2 great daughters. Problem is these girls are growing up so fast on me that by the time I figured this situation out ........well let's just say I'm looking forward and not behind at this point...............God has some (??) plan for me with all these women -- I forgot to mention, a female business partner and friend Kristin Murphy, and the majority of our contractors are all women -- and so I had to resort to my own intervention, by getting a male dog. We're still outnumbered, but if I had only one pick of a teammate -- there is no better buddy than my dog Roscoe. Those that know me, know that Roscoe and I travel everywhere together. Motel 6 chain is his favorite overnight place.........I guess that leaves me open to a future Blog Posting -- "Gone to the Dogs" -- I've got a ton of pictures of Roscoe -- it sometimes upsets the rest of the family.



Think spring