Clarence Thomas - A Role Model

I ashamed to admit I have a half dozen half-read books sitting on my nightstand.

My intentions are good but most of the time I just don't find the read compelling. Not so with this book. I couldn't put it down. I got the book last night about 7pm after looking through the mail and finding my package from Amazon. I just finished it and it is truly inspiring.

I will pass this book on to Kellen and the rest of my kids as required reading. Clarence Thomas came from extreme poverty in rural Georgia and has risen to the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. I was made aware of this book by listening to Justice Thomas being interviewed on the Rush Limbaugh Show and Mark Levin Show.

I don't think I have ever heard Rush extol a book like he did with this one.

I find the single most striking thing about Justice Thomas is his humility. He give all the glory of his successes to God -- without exception.

The second most incredible thing is that he always refers to his wife as "my best friend". I find that to be the deepest love imaginable.

His journey has so many lessons to teach all of us. This book is certainly on my short list of best books EVER.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Apologies (to the 3 of you who read my blog) for the long delay since the last post.

It has been "that time of year" when I work 16 hour days + soccer coach + taxi driver for four great kids to and from church and school activities + try to be a good husband. Blogging has to take a back seat during Sept and Oct.

I thrive on the busyness for two months but I look forward to putting on the brakes a bit, too. Sales are -flat to soft- in reflection of Michigan's bad economy - thanks Jennifer. Fortunately, I have sold 2 new all school accounts to run this year + I have sold 2 new additional all-school accounts to run this year. I sold these in between doing kick offs at other schools.

What else is new? Oh ya- PC no more! That's right- I'm switching to Mac! It's interesting that I started as a Maccer back in the late 80's and loved the IIsi I bought in 91 which helped me through numerous job activities. Then I got caught up in the Windows craze and cheapness of the hardware/software. So for about 13 years I have been in the PC desert with the bugs and error messages: dll error this, line command error that, screen freezes and other numerous Microsoft quirks.

I am in the market for laptop and was pretty set on a Dell as of about a week ago. Then a friend showed me his Apple MacBook with a program called Parallels which simultaneously runs Windows and Mac OSX! (I wanted to say "at the same time" but then realized that would be redundant). The speed, smoothness and simplicity of the interface was breathtaking. So I started to do more research on compatibility issues I may have after getting a new Mac.

None so far.

Any MS Office document (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) can all be SAVEed AS.. any format in the universe. Not only that-- but there is a free open souce program called OpenOffice for Mac that makes all interoperations with my multitude of contacts transparent.

All this with the stable, bug free and time tested platform of Apple.

I guess I'm not too old to... think different.