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  • A Thrilling Time is in Your Immediate Future by BenSpark

    The Next Big Thing

    If you want the Next Big Thing, design it, build it, market it, then profit off of the sheep looking for The Next Big Thing. Don’t just sit there. Define the damn thing and make ideas reality.

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  • Back To Work... by Holster on Flickr

    Library Day In The Life, Days 2 & 3

    Back to work after three excellent days in southern California. That first day back after trips are always the hardest — especially after arriving home at midnight (in bed closer to 1:30) and having an 8:30 am meeting. The morning was a bit rough trying to figure out what I missed on the day off. [...]

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  • 2012 Walt Disney World Family Fiesta 5K & Half Marathon Recap

    Fog is cold. And damp. And 3 am EDT is really, really, really early in the morning, especially when coming from PDT time. Get up and run at midnight? Sounds like good practice for the ET Half in Rachael, NV over the summer! The Three Caballeros Family Fiesta 5K started bright and early on Jan. [...]

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  • Library day in the life Round 8, day 1

    No library related post today. I took the day off since I ran the Disney Tinker Bell half marathon yesterday – my second half marathon this month and third in the last 60 days. I completed the Disney Coast to Coast Challenge! Since I was already in SoCal, I decided to visit with friends I [...]

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  • Las Vegas Strip at Night by Marco Verch

    RNRLV Race Recap

    I finished it. That’s about all I can say since the Zappos.com Rock n’ Roll Las Vegas half marathon experience was almost a 180º turn from 2010. Before anyone thinks I’m busting on Vegas, keep in mind I live here. I know how fast the weather can change (like last night), how fast it cools [...]

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Same City, Different Feeling

Once again, I’m back in Montreal, QC. Needless to say, the past 5 days have been very interesting. First, I’m traveling with a group of people from work. I’m staying in the Opus Hotel that I stayed at in March, but there isn’t over a meter of snow on the ground. In fact, the construction [...]

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Customer Service? What’s that?

You know customer service is going downhill when the DMV gives you the best customer service you’ve had all week. Since last post, two different experiences gave me a sour taste of retail and medical professions. Scenario #1: RC WilleyI bought a new dining table and chairs from them in April. Delivery was 3 weeks [...]

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Road Dog

To say that it’s been a bit of an odd trip doesn’t do it justice. It rained both weeks except for yesterday. It’s raining again. My flight into Newark delayed by 2 hours. I don’t think Newark should even have a license to operate as an airport at this point. It’s certainly not the airlines [...]

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Continental Fight 268

Newark to Las Vegas. Original departure time 5:30. Boarded plane 6:30. Current time almost 8:00 Still on tarmac waiting to take off. On the plane for 1 1/2 hours. Haven’t left the ground yet. 20th in line for departure. Newark is the 2nd armpit of airports. Detroit is the 1st. And the people behind me [...]

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“I don’t know where I’m going/but I sure know where I’ve been…” This trip made me realize a few more things: The Northeast really isn’t that bad of a place to live. There are still farmers and their markets. The job market doesn’t suck any more than anywhere else. The roads still are bad, but [...]

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