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Thank you for the donations, I was able to raise $410 (after company matching) to donate to Junior Achievement. I am sorry to say that I was the worst bowler on my team and got beat in two of the games by a girl… but she is in a bowling league along with everyone else on my team, plus my game fell apart after Georgia Tech’s lost to Duke. But the good news is I raise the second most on my team and Georgia Tech is seeded 3rd in their bracket (St. Louis)… the entire bracket can be found here in PDF form.

Thanks to those of you that have pledge or donated. I am up to $145, but still want to get a little more. I want to say thanks to the following people for donating so far:

Lee Berner

Kevin Clary

Linnea Corn

Mary Fenno

Leigh McDonald

Judi Sands

Jack Sims

Shawn Tureman

Dawn Winters

I have been playing around with my paypal account (for collecting NCAA tournament money) and decided to make donations easy to give. Simply click on this button :

My company is having it’s participating in the Junior Achievement 18th Annual Bowlathon. And I said I would join in as well. But didn’t realize how little time I had to raise money. So the event is this weekend and I have raised somewhere close to $0. So if any of you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. You don’t have to get the money to me by this weekend I will just write a check to cover any pledges I get and you can mail a check whenever.

Or for those more technically savvy, you can use my paypal account, my email address for that is ben_mcdonald@symantec.com.

Any amount would be greatly appreciated, and any amount over $25 gets matched by my company!

I had to go by this little plastic ring guard to slip around my wedding band since it was slipping off quite easily and I was afraid I would lose it. I will eventually get it resized once I am at a weight that I hope to keep for the rest of my life.

I have set up a NCAA tournament on Yahoo

the link is here

and the password is ‘beebe’. Sign up now and have a add a little fun in your life.

If you that link doesn’t work here is the important information:

Group Number : 9950

Group Password : beebe

I am down to 213! only 9 more pounds to go before I reach my New Years Resolution of losing 30 pounds this year!

Well I finished the book last night. It was pretty good, a little predictable (I guess the 2nd word pretty quickly) but it was still a very interesting fiction story. And the meat of the book (which spurred the earlier conversation) was worth the read. I have gotten some emails regarding my previous post and they suggested some other books that would “rock my Casbah”.

I will update you guys when I start reading them. But I think I will start working on the house again since I need to get some things done, like finish the trim work on the stairs.

The other day Sherry and I were talking and I mentioned that John Crapper was the reason the phrases “use the John” and “take a crap” where common american phrases. Well it turns out that was educated on some false information. Here is the Straight Dope on the situation.

Oppss… Georgia Tech removes DuPree’s name from business school