It’s Friday I’m in Love!
You see, it was all building to that headline. 🙂 Anyway. It's been an interesting week. Quite good, really, despite a lot of different things pulling on me this week. One especially cool thing to report: I'm writing a long article for the Carleton Voice, the alumni magazine about my alma mater. If you want a good example of the truism "it takes 3 years for a business to make money," this is a perfect example. I pitched the magazine a story idea on March 30, 2008 (gmail saves everything, which is how I know). The idea was filed away Read more…
This truck was carrying 8,000 gallons of industrial printer ink when it crashed.
via boston.com No one was injured. But what a colorful spill!
Be the Spark! Youth Against Violence Project at City Club next Wednesday
I want to encourage you to come to next week's City Club lunch on March 16. It will feature three youth speakers who are involved in the Youth Philanthropy Board and the Youth Against Violence initiative sponsored by the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation. I've been a volunteer with GTCF for three years now and I really love their work. And I was the facilitator for a recent retreat of the Youth Philanthropy Board and was just blown away by the work they are doing. And with the upcoming Be the Spark day with Desmond Tutu (May 13!) … well, I'm all about Read more…
Thursday I Don’t Care About You
I do care about you. But on Tuesday I decided to title my morning posts this week with lyrics from The Cure. Don't ask me why, especially since I should have started it on Monday with "Monday's blue." But alas. I'll do anything to keep a song lyric going.
Wednesday too
Big day! Lots to do, so a short morning post. I recently read Seth Godin's new book Poke the Box, which is about the importance of tinkering, poking, and playing with ideas. But even more than that, it's about the importance of starting. Initiating. When I spoke in front of the Entrepreneur class at UWT in January, that was my message to them as well. People think the job of an entrepreneur is to come up with ideas. It's not. It's to start things. Poke the Box was a good reminder to myself of the same thing I'd told the Read more…
More consolidation?
Like the UP and Lakewood Fire District vote, this is worth watching: The City of Puyallup – which operates one of only three independent municipal libraries in Pierce County – may explore joining the Pierce County Library System. The City Council is expected to discuss the idea at a study session later this month. Nothing is final; city leaders stress that the only decision for now is whether to officially launch an exploration of the idea. Puyallup residents would have to approve annexation into the library system through a public vote. I think we'll continue to see more and more Read more…
Tuesday’s gray
So I'm still feeling sunny about the week, even if the weather's not matching my mood today. One thing I've neglected to mention here is that Friday is the South Sound Technology Conference. I've been on the Steering Committee for the conference for the last couple years and I'm excited to go again this year. It's from 9:00 to 2:15 at UWT. Here's the registration link if you're interested in what's going on in the South Sound tech world. It's $15, which includes a lunch. Hope to see you there!
Feels like a good week a comin’
Some weeks you can just tell that it's not going to be a good one. This one, though, I have some high hopes for. Part of it might be that on Saturday, Mary and I are leaving for New York City and Washington DC. The NYC part of the trip is a vacation, the DC part of the trip is for a parks conference. Part of it might also be that I've got a lot to do, but I'm not overly scheduled (as can often happen), so I'm feeling good about getting it all done. And part of it might Read more…
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