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So why am I neglecting my blog lately?  Here is what else I’ve been neglecting:

• We leave for Colorado in 12 days.  I’m doing a 1-hour presentation and I really haven’t put anything together yet.
• I’m two weeks into a five week class and I’ve barely done anything.
• I have tiled half of what I intended to get done during Memorial Day weekend.
• We haven’t been to church in two weeks.

So what have I been up to?

• I’m on a defined running plan now.  As part of it, I’m running on Friday mornings with the Director of Employee Wellness, who is awesome.  Running at 6:00 am has me pooped by 9:00 pm.  Good thing there is nothing on TV.
• I’m swamped at work.  There is so much to do before I head out of town.
• I put up a swimming pool — one of those ugly Easy Set pools — and I’m figuring out how to balance the chemicals.  This will come in handy one day when I have a real pool.
• I’ve been doing a little side work: both web and tech support crap.  A little extra money never hurts.
• We converted all of our telephones at work to Cisco IP phones, like the ones in 24.  It seems like the fallout from that will never end.

So now what?

• I’m off Friday — another asbestos abatement day.  Ahh, the advantages of working in an old building.  I plan to catch up on some of the above or at least prioritize.

Here is my current new favorite iPhone app: CardStar

You basically enter the numbers from your membership and reward cards and let the cashier scan your phone instead of all of those annoying little cards on your keychain.

Why can’t i just come up with some stupid idea like this that would revolutionize the way that the population does some mundane task?  I could package it and sell it and retire tomorrow.  I just need ONE good idea.

By the way, if you want CardStar, it’s free for a limited time, although it is totally worth the 99 cents that it usually costs.