In honor of

In honor of the final stage of this years Tour de France finishing on Sunday I wore this shirt today. Not that I really need an excuse to wear it. Anyone that really knows me knows that I wear it all the time and that it's one of my favorites.
Why?
1. It's just a cool shirt
2. It's got a bike on it
3. It was a gift from my little sister and
4. Shirts from threadless seem to fit just so well

Advertising at its worst?

I was at the grocery store tonight and whilst I perused the cereal aisle in search of good deals I heard this cute little girl say to her mom, "I want that cereal," as she reached for the box.

The funny thing was, you couldn't even tell what kind of cereal it was. All you could see was that it was all red with a spiderweb design and a big Spiderman logo. The little girls mom laughed and said, "you don't even know what kind of cereal that is."

I felt mixed emotions at that point regarding my chosen profession. It strengthens my position regarding the need to teach children how to intelligently decode the many media messages they come across every day. Teach your children. We don't want a bunch of media illiterate kids running around eating, drinking, wearing, reading, and listening to who knows what just because it's got [insert favorite color, logo, movie/tv/book character, etc. here] on its box.

What a wonderful day

So yesterday was great.

We had a client workshop all day, so work was really busy, but a good busy. The client we're working with is quite a joy. Really laid back, fun, and humorous people. Their playfulness certainly makes the job a lot more enjoyable than it otherwise could be.

The workshop was also a great learning experience. I was able to see principles of strategy research being exercised in a way that was quite similar, yet different from what I've learned from my schooling and internship.

After work I was suppose to go home teaching, but due to some planning issues our hometeachee called and rescheduled. It was actually quite perfect. I got off the subway to find I had two voicemail messages. #1 was from hometeachee girl saying we were rescheduling for Thursday night, and #2 voicemail message was from my friend RJ saying that he and a couple people were meeting up at Fort Tryon Park to go bouldering.

I was kinda bummed that the hometeaching appointment had been rescheduled but what perfect timing. The last time RJ went bouldering up at the park he gave me a call, but I wasn't able to go.

Bouldering was great. I was able to help RJ solve some problems he had been working on and it was just a lot of fun to be climbing. It had been awhile since the last time I went climbing so my endurance was definitely not up and my hands certainly took a bit of a beating. As expected, my muscles were sore today, but it's a good feeling.

The end to a wonderful day: so I was already in the area so I decided I'd give my friend Meredeth a call and stop by to get caught up on the Tour de France. She's way into the tour and has been recording it on DVR every day. Tuesday was a rest day so they had done a recap. I figured it would be a good one for me to watch since I haven't been able to watch much of it (what with work, and then not having any covering TV channels at the apt, etc.)

All in all it was a good day. I didn't get home till about midnight so it was definitely a late night. I was a little tired today as will I be tomorrow for staying up and blogging tonight (I was over at Meredeth's with a roommate catching up on todays Tour activities...talk about crazy).

Anyways, it's time for bed.

Internet!

I now have internet at my house, but we haven't been able to set up our wireless just yet. As of right now, we've just got a cable modem with one ethernet hook up out the back. Wireless will come soon and make life a lot easier.

Brace yourself for a revival of blogging from my neck of the woods.