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In a Frenzy

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In a Frenzy
Photo-A-Day #1404

Actually not really although I probably should be. I am still kicking a cold that knocked me out last week. That is slowly making its way though my system. I need to buy tissues for the woman who sits next to me because I’ve used half the box.

Today was a productive day actually. I am getting more attuned to the role of a trainer and today did one of the group presentations on Critical Access Hospitals. There is a ton of information out there on these hospitals. Very cool stuff including maps and everything so today’s demo was pretty visual as well as me speaking. Still not exactly motivating or riveting but it does provide a service to the team. My next item is a project that is a service to the whole company, nothing like jumping right into the fire.

Today I also did some searching for numbers because I won a competition and the prize was a vacation valued at 1500 British Pounds. It was from a promotion that I learned about from FuelMyBlog. The contest was through Sony-Ericsson. I found out that I had won a while ago and have been waiting for the contact to contact me. I had the choice of them picking 3-5 trips and I chose the one I wanted or I could come up with my own trip. I decided to come up with my own trip.

While it would be awesome to go overseas and have a great adventure I figured that I’d rather stay somewhere stateside instead. There is much of this country that I still have not seen. And one of the states that I have not seen yet is Arizona. Back in December of 2006 I wrote a post on my old blog about a place in Arizona that I really wanted to visit. It was a sponsored post from PayPerPost too. As I researched the place I found that there were some very cool things in the area that I really wanted to see. I found out later that a good friend of mine had gone to the place and stayed there and they loved it. The place is called the SouthWest Inn and it is in Sedona Arizona, about 2hours from Phoenix. The most exciting thing I want to do is go to the African Safari that is 35 miles southeast of Sedona. It is called the Out of Africa WildLife Park.

Of course we want to take it easy as well and relax. So we are going to take a train ride through the awesome landscape. I just can’t wait to go and take a ton of great photos. We are going to try and go for mid May. I’m still waiting to hear back from the company that is going to make the arrangements but this should fit right into the budget. I just saw that there is a VIP tour of the Out OF Africa WildLife Park and I may see if we can swing tickets for that too.

Tonight I ran downtown to the Speed of Thought Playhouse. I talked with Christian, one of the Speed of Thought Players and we settled on a date for the 1st North Attleboro Beer and Blogging night. It is going to be March 13, 2009 starting at 6:30, if people want to stay for the improv show, which is encouraged, they can stay, blog the show and have a good time. We will have giveaways and other fun things, the cost is the $10.00 cover for the improv show. Now I have quite a bit to do to set this up. Step one find local bloggers.

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Some New Tech

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Some New Tech
Photo-A-Day #1399

No, I haven’t gone crazy spending some stimulus package. Am I the only one sick of seeing those scam ads on Facebook? No, I watched OfficeDepot as the price fell on the Wacom Bamboo Tablet and the 4 port USB hub. The Samsung camera was a giveaway from a generous sponsor at IZEAFest 2008. And generous Swag is reason #9 for going to IZEAFest 2009. The 1 TB FreeAgent XTreme external hard drive from Seagate. I won that from a contest on The Dirty Shirt. Today I finally put these items to use.

I hooked up the hard drive and set it to backup the video and photo folders of our other external hard drive. I also made sure that that particular drive was up to date with my travel external hard drive. And if that is not anal enough I have another external hard drive of just Eva photos. The 1 TB FreeAgent XTreme will go into our fireproof lockbox. I will also find another safe place for the Eva hard drive and do my backups once each month. So now I have to set up a reminder message to myself for once a month backups.

Speaking of getting things done, today I finally picked up my glasses, the ones that were $200 more than the Zenni Optical ones that I am wearing right now. The company called me wondering why I hadn’t picked up the glasses in 4 months. Oops.

So I grabbed them, then stopped over at my Gym to cancel my membership. Gyms are such scams. I know that I paid 1st and last months fees but they said I have to bring my original paperwork back to confirm that. Really, they didn’t have that on file somewhere? I find that hard to beleive so tomorrow I bring them my paperwork.

Oh and I also got my car inspected. My plan to have it inspected at least one day into the new month after the last one expired is working. I figure if I do it for 12 months I get one year free. That is probably not what is happening but I like to think it is.

And I love On Demand by Comcast because they had Wolverine and the X-Men was on Nickelodeon for free. I also found Marvel on Twitter. I love that they are using Twitter. I’m going to find some of the other media sources that I love as well. Hey great, news IDW publishing is on twitter too! They are the people who do the Angel, Transformers and G.I. Joe comic books.