I watched a section of the Magnolia tree fall outside the bedroom window during the storm. It was just one of those awesome, random acts of moments that I happened to witness. Life Has Been a Lot Like That Lately. I was cruising through the day’s 3,500 words when the shivers came over me. Fears. […]
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Father’s Day – The Summer of 210,000 Words Can Wait a Few Hours
It’s about an hour until the OldOld Man comes and picks up me and my mother for Sunday dinner. We’ll be sneaking down back roads out in the country as we head out to some out-of-the-way place to eat dinner and watch the water roll on by. We don’t do it because it’s Father’s Day. […]
Have to keep movin’ to keep movin’
45 minutes, alarm to walking. 11.4 miles of walking – broken into segments of 7.3 & 4.1 miles. The runner’s high got me through the day. But I looked at the damned stats again. Luckily, they were encouraging. Bad, bad habit. I know I can get that alarm to walking time down to 30 minutes […]
Borrowing time from tomorrow to pay for today
Midnight. The only light in the house is coming from the monitor, letting me know that there’s only 14 more updates to perform before it shuts down for the evening. Well, and this iPhone 4. Come Hell or high water, midnight’s becoming the shut down time. I’ve borrow from too many tomorrows to keep today […]
I workout before I touch a computer because the chicken came before the egg
This morning I spent an hour in bed curled up like a ball, checking web stats over & over again as if my looking at them will change them, all the while paralyzed at what else might not go my way. I’m not Superman but I think I get strength from the Sun. Preface: so […]
210,000 Words and Redemption to Be Found – #210K
Starting Wednesday, June 15, 2011, I begin my Summer of 210,000 Words. I’m scared, I’m nervous, I’m excited. I’m rolling the dice. What Is the Summer of 210,000 Words? While I sort out the next phase or two of my career, I’m completing most of a huge first stage to a commerce / branding project. […]
Brian Connelly’s 2011 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
Original: 2011-06-11 Hey, guys, For those of you back in Northwest Indiana who’ve done any smidgen of internet marketing, you’ll know who Brian Connelly is. In short, he knows search engine marketing like the back of his hand, helps advance our area’s workforce farther ahead into the 21st century job market, is a newly-christened father, […]
Day 1: Guitar strength drills one can do in front of a TV
So, in order to seek an audience from my buddy, Blakemore, I started doing the guitar finger strengthening drills while my computer was running reports. The truth is the basic ones are still the most important. Warm Up Drill 1: Every Note for a 4 count. First, they start you off with Chromatic Scales which […]
Clinging to my guitar before I lose myself even further
Once upon a time, I worked to play guitar with the thoughts that I’d play guitar for work – well, I’d write about playing guitar for work. I played with friends that I stumbled upon along the way. Some kept with it; some went away. And then a funny thing happened: I went away. When […]
Fort Myers Brush Fire of April 13, 2011.
This is all assuming I’m not still in Northwest Indiana….If I was here in Ft. Myers, then to the left is a signature picture of the big brush fire in Fort Myers, FL between Jamaica Bay & Wal-Mart. Between the two is an east-west linear forest that is split by what used to be a […]