Finally after working off and on for a couple of years now, DontKeepSearching.com is live.
I trully beleive this is a viable resource for organizations looking to raise funds all year round and is a great supliment to their current fund raising efforts.
I want to thank all the programmers and designers who have worked with me on this website. I want to thank those members that have been helping with the testing and all future members that will help it grow and benefit organizations around the world.
As I posted last week, all commissions earned from Brochin.net, until 24 February will be donated to The Brothers in Arms Foundation. So if you are looking for anything IT or Telecommunications related, what better feeling than to know when you purchase that the sales commission goes to some very deserving people.
Come one, come all to the greatest show on Earth known as Washington D.C. politics. I really enjoyed the President’s State of the Union address. What I enjoyed even more is that after the speech, they interviewed two congressmen, asked them about President Obama’s call to end the partisan cut throat politics and how did they answer…by bickering and hacking away at each other…guess someone wasn’t paying attention to the speech.
Kim is going back to school. I am so proud of her. She is really stressing about the math work, but I told her not to worry, if she has to take some prep classes, then no big deal. Early Childhood Development, Elementary education or Child Psychology is what she is looking at. Right now though, I told her just to worry about the general education requirements that they all have in common.
Gannon had finals this week, has been shooting them down. He has A’s and B’s on all his finals and in all his classes. Very proud of the kid. The Kubasaki Winter Formal was Friday night and he had a good time. Of course he was embarrassed because his mom had to take pictures of him and his date and then bring her to the car to meet me and little brother.
Gavin, our little daredevil, decided that sticking a yellow bead up his nose was a brilliant thing to do while in preschool Friday afternoon. Kim of course had to take him to the ER for it to be removed. That said, he is getting into that stage of seeing how many buttons he can push of mom and dads. He will tell us “no”, touch things he is not supposed to touch and wait for a reaction, etc.. Hope this stage ends soon because mommy is about to lose her mind I think.
As for me, there is not much to say except Facebook is awesome. Facebook has allowed me to get in touch with friends and relatives I lost track of long ago. Work is getting better as we have hired a couple of new civilians and will be hiring more, thus the workload has decreased. I have been able to get a lot more time to focus on the training and personnel issues within the section. It has also allowed me a lot more time to read and educate my self professionally.
Starting now, for the next month, 100% of all comissions earned through Brochin.net will be donated to the Brothers in Arms Foundation. After this first month we will be donating 50% of all profits to this foundation and others for at least the next year.
Please help me help these wounded warriors. I have personally served with one of them in the past. These warrior’s families need our help as well. Lets stop paying this lip service. Please read the following article and see if you have a reality check.
Visit Brochin.net today to start helping or please go directly to the Brothers in Arms Foundation website and donate.
I finally finished the homepage and other internal pages for Brochin.net. I still have several tweaks, but the site is almost fully functional. The cost comparison calculators work, the members area is working which contains the e-books, software and web templates and tutorials. The article directory is also functional and of course the blog.
The only thing left to finish is the Expert forum in the members area. Still working on design, layout and functionality as well as recruiting the experts who are willing to share some of the expertise and time for free.
So it looks like we will be mvoing away on the 24th. Yea, I know, that came pretty quick. It all hinged off the flight windows out of Seattle and LA to Okinawa. Since we are traveling there during the Christmas and New Years holiday season, flights are packed and in a 10 day flight window they could only find us one flight to Seattle in those ten days. We also had a hard time finding a flight to Seattle from Raleigh.
Oh well, the time is upon us and we are almost ready. We have loose ends to tie up here, like make sure utilities and services are ready to shut off when we leave. We would also love to sell our darn house by the time we leave, however, no stress there because I am sure the housing market here is going to pick up in the Spring.
We can’t wait to get back and see the family, haven’t seen Mom and my family in over two years. We are going to be traveling to Indiana first and spending a few days there, then back down to Tennessee to stay with some of Kims family. While I am there I want to take some time to meet up with some old friends from when I was in Indiananpolis. I would also like to meet with some folks I have been dealing with onlin over the last couple years.
Brochin.net is alsmost ready, fixing up some stuff on the backside and I think it will be ready in about 2-4 weeks. The other site I was working on so that fundraisers could make money, now that thing is being a bear. We are over a year in development on the thing. Really a bear!
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