Well, every blue moon I get the urge to change my design for my blog header. If I’m not mistaken this is only the third time I have changed the header since I began this blog in 2007. I do have a common theme and that's my face up front and personal. Some may call this vain, but to each his own. Truth be told I attempted to have family on with me but they declined. So you see them in various posts.
If we had this technology when I was a teenager, I would not been this bold. I was such an introvert that I didn't even like looking at myself in the mirror; let alone liking what was underneath the reflection. I was a confused, suicidal boy. But that boy has grown up to be a confident Godly man...and…I like what I am…and what I see.
So I hope you like the new header...drop a line let me know what you think.
until then...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Can You Hear Me Now?
While looking for some electronic do dad I ran across my "resting place of old phones". It was funny to see the difference in technology and the type of phones I liked at the time. The bad part of this is that what you see is only a quarter of what I have in the "resting place of old phones"
until then...
until then...
Monday, November 23, 2009
Jury Duty
About a month ago, I finishing up my campaign for city council and I'm checking the mail and lo and behold I get a summons for Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court for jury duty. What!?! You got to be kidding me!! Jury Duty!! I'm almost 40 years old and have been voting since I was 18 and as soon as I run for a public office, I get jury duty. It’s a conspiracy! After the shock wore off, I counted the days until my summons date, so I could get this over with.
I get up that morning still not happy about spending a week with a bunch of other people who, like myself, can find a million other things to do other than sitting around waiting for our names to be called. As I line up to sign in, I run into a friend from college. We grab a bite to eat and start shooting the breeze, then they started to call names and his name was called. So I was left to wait and wait and wait. Around eleven o'clock I got called, just as I was about to fall back asleep mind you, and they took us upstairs and we again waited in a jury deliberation room for about three hours. The judge finally came in and thanks us for our service. It seems that the cases he was to oversee all settled and we were not needed anymore. Our presence was enough to give the defendants something to think about. We were sent back downstairs and to our luck, they let us go home for the day.
My second day was better, I found more old fiends who worked in the courts and also who where picked for jury duty. I was having a good time and as fate would have it my name was called again. This time we didn't wait in any room, we were taken right into the court room. I was in the first group and sat in the jury box and the attorney’s began their questioning to select the jurors. It was at this point I began to see how important our service was. The time waiting didn't seem so bad, and I begin to understand that jury duty is one of the most important services that we can offer or country. To my dismay, five o'clock came around and we had to finish selection the next day.
They called us upstairs the next day and as soon I was getting excited, they sent us back down because of a delay in the case. Well that delay took all day, we sat in the jury pool and conversed, slept, played cards and ran the batteries down on our Blackberry's. Side note...no Wi-Fi in the jury pool, well no good Wi-Fi. Three o'clock comes around and we get called again, this time they asked us to bring our belongings with us. They tell us the defendant pled and was sentenced so there was no longer need for us and...since it was the middle of the week and a new group of potential jurors can in that morning, they let us go for the rest of the week, duty served.
I left feeling a little different about my duty to sever on a jury if called. We are to get a jury of our peers. The man that would have been on trial really didn’t have that. Even if it looked like it on the outside, he had people with the same mindset I first had, “this is an inconvenience to me.” And that thought process doesn’t give the defendant a fair attempt to be proven not guilty.
I loved my jury duty experience as a whole. It is a service to my country and a service I would gladly report to again.
I get up that morning still not happy about spending a week with a bunch of other people who, like myself, can find a million other things to do other than sitting around waiting for our names to be called. As I line up to sign in, I run into a friend from college. We grab a bite to eat and start shooting the breeze, then they started to call names and his name was called. So I was left to wait and wait and wait. Around eleven o'clock I got called, just as I was about to fall back asleep mind you, and they took us upstairs and we again waited in a jury deliberation room for about three hours. The judge finally came in and thanks us for our service. It seems that the cases he was to oversee all settled and we were not needed anymore. Our presence was enough to give the defendants something to think about. We were sent back downstairs and to our luck, they let us go home for the day.
My second day was better, I found more old fiends who worked in the courts and also who where picked for jury duty. I was having a good time and as fate would have it my name was called again. This time we didn't wait in any room, we were taken right into the court room. I was in the first group and sat in the jury box and the attorney’s began their questioning to select the jurors. It was at this point I began to see how important our service was. The time waiting didn't seem so bad, and I begin to understand that jury duty is one of the most important services that we can offer or country. To my dismay, five o'clock came around and we had to finish selection the next day.
They called us upstairs the next day and as soon I was getting excited, they sent us back down because of a delay in the case. Well that delay took all day, we sat in the jury pool and conversed, slept, played cards and ran the batteries down on our Blackberry's. Side note...no Wi-Fi in the jury pool, well no good Wi-Fi. Three o'clock comes around and we get called again, this time they asked us to bring our belongings with us. They tell us the defendant pled and was sentenced so there was no longer need for us and...since it was the middle of the week and a new group of potential jurors can in that morning, they let us go for the rest of the week, duty served.
I left feeling a little different about my duty to sever on a jury if called. We are to get a jury of our peers. The man that would have been on trial really didn’t have that. Even if it looked like it on the outside, he had people with the same mindset I first had, “this is an inconvenience to me.” And that thought process doesn’t give the defendant a fair attempt to be proven not guilty.
I loved my jury duty experience as a whole. It is a service to my country and a service I would gladly report to again.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Jerry West vs. Michael Jordan...Logo Wars!
So with all this talk about Lebron James changing his number to honor Michael Jordan and the extra conversation that followed of the NBA logo dawning the likeness of his Airness...I though I would see what the NBA logo with look like without Jerry West. So I made a sample loge to see if it was something we could get used to. I must say, not that it would happen, but if the logo did change, I wouldn't think of the NBA, I would think of NIKE...and I don't believe David Stern would take kindly to that idea.
Jerry West Logo
Michael Jordan Logo
until then...
Jerry West Logo
Michael Jordan Logo
until then...
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Things That Make a Dad Proud
Many of you know of my daughter and that she attends the School of Arts. Well, after all the shows I have been to, none have moved me like this performance at our church. Please enjoy.
until then...
until then...
Monday, August 17, 2009
It's Been a Long Time
Sorry to those of you that try and follow my blog. It has been a while since I have written a post. Sadly to say, this is not the post of note. Quite a bit has been going on. Since we last spoke I started a campaign to run for City Council in my local city. That has taken up a lot of time. I have much to write about and I hope that you still continue to drop by and see what's going on in the day of my life.
until then...
until then...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Double Take
Searching the Internet can lead you to things that make you step back and say Wow! Above is a picture of my daughter, cute isn't she? :o) Don't tell here I said that...anyway. I was on a job searching site and came across this picture below.
I know crazy right. I don't know who this woman is, but she looks like my daughter at 40! All I could do was say WOW! I guess it is true about have a twin somewhere on this earth.
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