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2004-01-17T20:03:00.000-08:00

Well who would have thought after all this time I finally found a long lost friend. Doug Campbell and I were good friends in High School. I cannot remember how we became friends but I remember many happy hours discussing deep matters and of course girls (any area where he did much better then I). There were trips to Bronson Canyon on (me on my moped and him on a small motorcycle) that my parents would have killed me had they known about. I remember Doug getting married and circumstances causing our lives to drift apart. I lost track of Doug years ago and despite running into him while taking graduation stills at Pierce college (he actually graduated right in front of me and I took his Graduation still, which I probably muffed since I was so shocked to see him). I never manage to re-connect with Doug not for a lack of trying but lets face it Campbell is a more common name then Ordesky. So today while doing a routine search of Google reference for "Joel Ordesky" I came across Doug’s blog entries from August 2003. Lucky for me Doug’s use of my full name created the closing link that has allowed me to find him. Fascinating that it took a zoo application, a blog and Google to close a nearly 20 year gap in a great friendship.

2003-09-21T19:57:00.000-07:00

Well the big project of the weekend was the search and purchase of a bunk bed for the kids. Cole is really getting to tall for his toddler bed and we always intended to get a bunk bed when he was old enough to sleep on the top bunk.

So the grand adventure actually started last weekend as we searched several local stores to find limited stock on hand and very high prices. I found much better selection online with the help of google but Suzanne is not the type to buy something she can not see and touch. A search of the yellow pages both hard copy and online turned up no real good sources.

Suzanne then remembered seeing a bunch of ads for bunk beds in the Los Angeles Family Magazine and on Sunday last we were off to Downey and the Good Night Sleep Center and made it there with 45 minutes to closing. We left thinking we knew which bed we wanted but when we got home and looked at the photos. We decided we liked this bed
which we had not considered while in the store but which I had shot a picture of anyway.

So this weekend we went back down to Downey for a confirming look and placed an order with hope that it will arrive in a week or so.

Now we just need to reconfigure the kids bedroom to accommodate the bed and the ladder.

2003-09-16T22:22:00.000-07:00

I have been listening to David McCullough’s book on John Adams. The excerpts from letters and journal entries fascinate me. It has made me think how little written material will be left from a modern person. Given that people tend to communicate by phone and not letter or email, will there be the same residual information for posterity when we are gone. Does this explain the plethora of Blogs that have sprouted up on the web.

Given that, I wish to strive to keep a journal/blog. Unfortunately, I think that in this day and age it is hard to find the time to keep a journal.

Only time will tell if I can keep up with the discipline need to keep this or any other journal.

2003-09-13T11:48:00.000-07:00

Ok I am a big fan of Audible.com. I am signed up to get two books a month for $16.95 and it has made a big difference in my ability to read/listen to books. I was always a fan of reading but with a family and work I do not have the time. I download my books to my RIO 600 but audible supports lots of MP3 devices besides their own. You can even buy a MP3 player bundled with your subscription. I highly recommend the service if you like books. If you do sign up please go to the Spread the Words link on your My account page and list Firqby as your recruiter.

So far I have listen to 34 books:

John Adams
David McCullough
09:00

08/10/03
A Gift of Dragons (Unabridged)
Anne McCaffrey
05:47

07/11/03
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
John C. Maxwell
03:00

07/11/03
Extreme Management
Mark Stevens
03:00

06/11/03
Sex Money Kiss (Unabridged)
Gene Simmons
04:49

05/04/03
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card
06:00

05/04/03
Getting Things Done
David Allen
02:48

04/06/03
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Unabridged)
Patrick Lencioni
03:37

03/28/03
Fierce Conversations
Susan Scott
05:09

03/06/03
The Magic of Thinking Big
David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
04:02

02/24/03
Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-65
Michael Beschloss
06:24

02/09/03
What Should I Do with My Life?
Po Bronson
04:44

01/24/03
Leading Up (Unabridged)
Michael Useem
09:44

01/08/03
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive (Unabridged)
Patrick Lencioni
03:03

12/11/02
The Dolphins of Pern (Unabridged)
Anne McCaffrey
09:10

11/12/02
Children Are from Heaven (Unabridged)
John Gray, Ph.D.
09:55

11/06/02
Accidental Playboy (Unabridged)
Leif Ueland
09:18

10/18/02
The Art of the Steal (Unabridged)
Frank W. Abagnale
08:09

10/11/02
Catch Me If You Can (Unabridged)
Frank W. Abagnale
08:36

09/23/02
Stranger in a Strange Land (Unabridged)
Robert A. Heinlein
16:00

08/25/02
Execution (Unabridged)
Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
08:10

07/26/02
Hughes (Unabridged)
Richard Hack
16:00

07/19/02
21 Dog Years (Unabridged)
Mike Daisey
06:40

07/08/02
Going Wireless (Unabridged)
Jaclyn Easton
09:28

06/16/02
Memoirs of a Geisha (Unabridged)
Arthur Golden

05/29/02
The Best Business Stories of the Year, 2002 Edition (Unabridged), Part 1
Andrew Leckey and Ken Auletta, editors
16:00

05/17/02
Boss Talk (Unabridged)
The Editors of the Wall Street Journal
03:59

05/07/02
Life Strategies
Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
05:00

04/23/02
The Best Business Stories of the Year, 2001 Edition (Unabridged)
Ken Auletta, Diane Brady, and more
12:00

04/07/02
The Diamond Age (Unabridged)
Neal Stephenson
18:00

03/23/02
Mark Twain (Unabridged)
Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan, and Ken Burns
08:07

02/23/02
The Prince (Unabridged)
Niccolo Machiavelli
03:13

02/23/02
Six Sigma
Mikel Harry, Ph.D. and Richard Schroeder
05:00

02/13/02
Jack: Straight from the Gut (Unabridged)
Jack Welch
14:00

2003-08-31T07:39:00.000-07:00

OK what is it with kids having to get up at the crack of dawn. I love my son but I can not seem to get him to get up and use the computer or watch TV on his own. As long as he knows I am up and on the computer he is fine but unless I am up and around he will not settle down. 6:30 am on a Sunday is to early to be getting up.

2003-08-30T20:24:00.000-07:00

Well that was a lot harder then it should have been and like all things having to do with computers I am not sure why I finally got it to work. I originally wanted to use my earthlink web space for this but could not get to the ftp site. Those of us with old ix.netcom.com account don't always get to function as all the other users. In the end after at least 50 attempts it seems to work for a reason that I do not understand.

That being said here it is.