It’s a special day for those who are Irish, or like to celebrate with the Irish.  My Irish roommate in college really got me started in the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.  So to celebrate, we have a special green text.

Enjoy your favorite green beverage today!  (And might I suggest that if you’re at work it be Green Tea.)

So it didn’t really sink in much until this past weekend how great it is that I’m done with Grad School.  I now have a lot of free time.  As mentioned yesterday, I’m reading a book for fun. I’ve also got some time to relax, and when the summer gets here to play some golf.

I’m very exited that the snow is pretty much gone. There is just a small pile of it left in the yard. The weather has been nice and I’ve gotten the the grill out. I bought it last year on a great clearance price, and was finally able to use it this spring. It’s really nice to have some burgers done on the grill. It makes me wonder how I went so long without one!

The back yard is pretty much snow free, except for the giant ice pond that is the pool.  Although I think that’ll be ice free before long.  So then we’ll have the grilling and the pool up and running. I’m super excited for that.

Otherwise life is good. Work is fun, and it has slowed down just a bit.  The big project is over and I’m looking over some other projects and deciding which one to pursue next. It’ll be kind of interesting to see what will happen.  I love the freedom I have in this job to really choose some of fun projects that I want to go after and see it through from start to finish. It’s a lot of fun.

I’ve got some meetings in the cities this week, which means I’ll be back in Blaine for a while. We’re going to do a house project or two, which will keep us out of trouble. We’re going to be tiling the Master Bathroom, thanks to the tile we bought from my brother and sister-in-law who bought too much when they redid their bathroom. So that’ll be a fun project. It won’t be too bad, as the bathroom really isn’t that big of a space.  But it’ll be nice to get it done.

For now that’s about all. Keep on a rocking blog readers!

I’m often reminded of that. But once again it hit my while I’ve been reading lately.  I’m reading Team of Rivals, which is about Abe Lincoln and his Presidential Cabinet (and political career in general).  In the book it discusses how printing presses were cheap and the newspapers of the day were political mouth pieces for the various parties. New papers would start up, and people could get their opinions/ideas out to the general readership of the paper.

Flash forward to 2010. You have blogs that are in most cases free, or relatively cheap.  All political parties have blogs that are the standard bearer for that party, or even the party in a certain geographical area. New ones spring up all the time.  Of course these blogs can be read by anyone in the world. They are more advanced than the news papers of the 1800′s. But the general idea is the same. They convey the same messages.

People evolve and use the new tools that are out there to reach the people just the same as they did back then.  It was interesting to read that, because it is so easy to just gloss over it or not even realize how things used to work. We’ve come so far since the 1800′s, but essentially it isn’t anything new.