Don’t you just love it when something works great the first time?!!!

A week or so ago, I was at the gas station about a block from my house. Where there is an e-play video dispenser.  You’ve probably seen the Redbox at your local grocery store. This a similar experience, but it’s actually located outside, near the building. A convenient way to get a movie anytime. We [...]

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Have you dedicated yourself to anything at this level?

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Patience and Charity

“If you wait long enough people with impress you and surprise you.”
Wait long and people will surprise and impress you.
“When you’re pissed off and angry with someone, you just haven’t given them enough time.
Just give them a little more time and they’ll almost always impress you.”
- Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture

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Oh Tanenbaum!

A couple of years ago, when my little sister, her husband and new baby, were planning to visit for Christmas, she made the requirement that there must be a tree if they were going to be there.  I thought this was a good idea, but the holiday snuck up on me quicker than I expected [...]

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Thanksgiving, One for All.

Ok folks, as the fireworks of a Virginia fall season is in full bloom and the temperatures gradually become chillier, I can’t help but get excited for the Holiday season.
I don’t have to explain to you all of the good, fun and heart warming feelings that come from the Holiday season. I do however, have [...]

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Race Supporters, Community and You.

Last Spring a co-worker of mine asked me if I wanted to train for a 10 mile running race together. A 10 miler led to a Half-Marathon with some other friends and just recently I finished the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington D.C. Prior to that I had participated in various small triathlons and small [...]

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This Complicated Life…

Somehow I knew when Princess Leia turned out to be Luke’s sister (knowing they had kissed in the the first movie) that the world was going to be much more complicated than the fantasy world Stars Wars created for me.

About a week ago or so, I got called out acting in a way that [...]

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Big thanks to my short friends.

This weekend I ran the Charlottesville Half Marathon, with a few friends of mine.
It was a tough course but still really fun because lots of friends did it together. I ran mostly all of the race with a good friend of mine. This is fairly interesting since she is quite a bit shorter than [...]

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A new movie for my top 10 list.

This weekend I watched a movie I had always wanted to see. Ironically, I received the movie as a Christmas gift, having never seen it and now after watching it feel as though it should be on my list of top 10 favorites.
The movie Stranger Than Fiction, about a man with a mundane life discovers [...]

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City livin. Livin it up in Philly

So of course I have all these grand ideas of how I was going to backlog some of my thoughts, blah, blah, blah. I’m in love with the idea of making experiences right the first time. However, the one thing I know about that, is that the more you plan for the perfect plan the [...]

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