Many years ago my parents made the switch from Catholic School to Public School. Tuition was on the rise and it made sense for a growing family to cut back. I didn’t mind so much, the public school kids seemed to get more days off for various holidays. I must have been in 5th grade at the time and one of the very first classes I walked into was English Composition (or it might have been Grammar – I can’t …
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Several years back I hit a breaking point with Windows. I was working with a Dell Laptop that I had purchased and the Windows Vista experience was driving me insane. Between the quarks with the OS and the problems with the laptop in general – I was ready to call it quits and look for another computer. A good friend of mine sent me an older Macbook to try out. It didn’t have the latest and greatest hardware specs, it …
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve gone on a blogging tear. I managed to post every day for about two weeks. My meager visitor stats were slowly growing and it was nice to see people reading what I had to say. Despite the small uptick in website views, comments remained low. In fact, there was a small rise in the initial wave of posts but that quickly subsided. One of the most fun aspects of blogging is interacting with …
For the past few days I’ve been sitting down at my laptop and telling myself that I needed to write something for my blog. It has been a tough process, coming up with topics that go beyond those that I would cover in a personal journal. Some days I simply don’t know what to write about. How often do you really want to hear about a particular gym session or that I haven’t lost any weight during a given week? …
At this very moment it is 6:19am on a Saturday morning. A light rain passed through last night leaving my deck and patio furniture a bit wet. I know this because I’m sitting outside right now with a cup of coffee on one side of my laptop and a cigar on the other. I’ve been watching a cursor flash on a blank page for about twenty minutes now. The whole premise of being outside this early in the morning was …
Over the past several weeks I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to podcasts. In my car, during my drive to and from work, while running on the treadmill, while mowing the lawn, and on the rare occasion when I just want to sit and have a little time to myself. The Entrepreneurs and Coffee Podcast has been very motivational and has taught me a lot about how to shape my upcoming podcast. I’ve been implementing some of the …
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