Didn’t think it would happen, but I managed to sustain this effort through the whole year. For me, that was a notable accomplishment. Welcome, now, to Year 2. In 2011, I will work a little harder to add content. More relevant content with greater frequency will be the approach here. I noticed today that WordPress [...]
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The Big Plays Blog Turns 1!
Posted in Personal Stories, tagged career, fun, growth, personal, postaday2011, prioritization on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Baseball and Dads: A Series Begins
Posted in Leisure, Personal Stories, tagged family, Leisure, personal on October 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The World Series starts this evening, and while I am still in mourning over my Twins not getting past the Yankees again, it is still an exciting time in the baseball season. Also, last Friday was my grandpa’s birthday. He passed away about five years ago, but he’s still very much alive in me, I [...]
Big Play: Raising Your Profile
Posted in Education, Lego League, Management and Leadership Topics, Personal Stories, Volunteer, tagged big plays, growth, leadership, lego league, raising profile, success, visibility on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am not the kind of person that likes doing the same thing over and over again. Add the expectation of a different result and then you define insanity. Yes, I know, there are certain things we have to do repeatedly, like take out the trash. I’m talking about the causes in life that really [...]
Shannon Park Lego League In The News
Posted in Education, Lego League, Leisure, Personal Stories, Volunteer, tagged education, engineering, leadership, lego league on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today we were visited by Nathan, the editor of the Rosemount Town Pages. He visited the Shannon Park Lego League practice to see what is going on with our program. We spent about 30 minutes together discussing the great things going on with our young inventors. We saw a few demos from our 4th and [...]
Inspiration for Lego League: Dean Kamen
Posted in Management and Leadership Topics, Personal Stories, Technology Topics, tagged lego league, personal, service, vision on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I remember the day like it was yesterday. I got tapped by my boss at the last minute to attend the annual Science and Technology banquet at a hotel in Minneapolis. It was a rainy April night — I mean REALLY rainy. The traffic from 3M to downtown Minneapolis was downright hideous. You get the [...]
Another Season of Lego League Begins!
Posted in Personal Stories, tagged education, lego league, personal, science, technology on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here we go again. Another season of Lego League at Shannon Park. It was refreshing and renewing for me to see such a strong interest in the program again in 2010. We had a great mix of new parents in attendance as well as some veterans. I have to say, it gets me going in [...]
I’m done, and it’s too bad, really…
Posted in Personal Stories, Rants, Uncategorized, tagged baseball, coaching, personal, rants, volunteer on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I thought I went into this for all of the right reasons — love of the game of baseball, desire to spend time with my son, help kids learn baseball and so on. I have one week to go in a long summer of baseball coaching, and the one thing I have learned for sure [...]
iPhone 4 – The First Week
Posted in Buzzing Topics, Personal Stories, Technology Topics, tagged Apple, bluetooth, iPhone, review, sync, video on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
First, let me admit that I like Apple stuff. I had a Gen 1 iPhone, and I have numerous iPods in the house, plus a couple of Macs, plus my iPad. So, even though the critics came out early with the antenna issue, I still was determined to get my new iPhone. Finally, after a [...]
Feed My Starving Children
Posted in Personal Stories, tagged charity work, faith, fun, growth, service on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week, my wife Debby caught a whopper of a cold. As a result, she asked me if I would cover her volunteer assignment at church taking middle school kids on a service project. I was happy to help her out, but I would be lying if I said I would have rather been doing [...]
There’s An App For That: Easter
Posted in Personal Stories, Uncategorized, tagged applications, fun, iPhone on April 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Happy Easter! At our church, it was announced on Good Friday that the congregation should bring bells to Easter worship. When “Alleluia!” was spoken or sung, the congregation was to ring these bells to celebrate the Resurrection. Being the techo-geek that I am, the first thing that went through my head was, “there’s got to [...]
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