WHAT!

Visit the World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame!

WHY?

I have always been interested in figure skating – especially during the Olympics. I think this would be a really fun place to stop by and see. I am going to order a brochure and maybe one day I’ll get a chance to visit!

As a side note, some extra information about where they are located:

World Figure Skating Museum
20 First Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80906

And a cool Bing “Birds Eye” view link: http://binged.it/yzIN5B

Great article about a guy I admire(d).  Mickey Tettleton.  Dad and I would love to watch him when we were going to games in 1989.  He and Cal were fan favorites and great role models for a boy growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore.  One game, Dad snapped a picture of Mickey hitting a homerun.  We sent him a copy and asked him to send an autographed copy back to us.  He did.  An inspiring memory.

Lately I have been really into survival techniques. Things like fire starting, cleaning hunted animals and stuff like that. I have also been really digging deeply into the skills that I have worked over the course of a career in IT to hone – to better understand not only management strategies but to get a better feel for the engineering processes that surround successful development and deployment of software. I know, I know – yawn. But this stuff is my job and I am really uncomfortable “settling” with failing projects. I want to succeed and I’m the kind of guy that will push the buttons that need pushed in order to steer the inertia of a project into the realm of success.

The main emphasis of what I am discovering brings all the process and layers of complexity of software boiling down to one point, and I’d quote from Peopleware but their copyright forbids it so I’ll summarize: Success of a project stems from good communication by all participants, and the failures are rooted in poor communication.

Good communication, eh? That’s it?

I think you’ll find there is alot of evidence of that in life. I certainly believe it after reading How to Win Friends and Influence People.

So while I used to believe that having good communication skills was just a commodity – I am beginning to realize and understand that it is A SURVIVAL SKILL. In a world of shrinking 401Ks, receding economies, imploding real estate markets and general instability – you need as many things going for you as possible. It is worth it to study up on effective communication.

Proverb of the Day: http://bit.ly/vZ65GZ

This is just great.  Sort of makes me want to re-invest in exploring how we can get solar power to work for our home.