Volunteered as an usher at the iXchange again this year. It's an award presentation by Ben Franklin Technology Partners where they award entrepreneurs and technological advancements in Northeastern PA. They bring in a really good speaker each year. This year was Daniel Burrus -- an internationally recognized technology forecaster ( Read more... )

I voted at lunch today ( Read more... )

Thanks bigfundrew and sambass... Good to remember, and share, the simple pleasures in life ( Read more... )

I love WaWa... fee-free ATM, snacks and drinks galore, coffee out the whazoo, yummy deli sandwiches, computerized deli ordering, cheap[er] gas...
And, any business that names itself in honor of Helen Keller's first words has got to be an upstanding, positive image for society... ;)

Watched Brokeback Mountain last night... got the DVD from NetFlix ( Read more... )

So I just had a realization: LiveJournal is like my Pensieve (as in Dumbledore's Pensieve in Harry Potter)... I can put my thoughts in here and then not have to worry about trying to remember them or having them weigh me down... and then I can go back and reflect on them at a later date ( Read more... )

A friend, John (& Kimberly, since they go together like white on rice), won a "free lunch" at a local restaurant by putting his card in a bucket. It's given by a financial planning company -- and at first I was thinking it would be a serious sales-pitch... but it really wasn't... the guy came, asked for our name and contact info (for follow-up I'm ( Read more... )

Actually haven't updated in a while... hmmm ( Read more... )

Barry and I went out for dinner at the Colonial House. Had a good dinner... and several beers... and played some MegaTouch ( Read more... )

I hate when people prejudge me... good or bad... Like when someone says "You're going to be hungover Sunday because you are going to a party Saturday" -- it's just as bad as someone saying "Oh, you're going to be great in the show because you always are"... I don't know why but they both cause me to cringe. Obviously the "positive prejudging" is ( Read more... )

I'm first in my friends' Fantasy Football League drafting line-up. Wow! Imagine the chances of that... I signed up just for the fun of it... not really thinking I would get excited or "into" it... but being first on the draft line-up put pressure on me to do some research and not pick stupidly... so I put on my nerd cap and Googled away until I ( Read more... )