Mason learned how to get his booty off the ground for the first time and walk across the room. Now he practices walking every chance he gets. Let the chase begin!

My sis, Lindsey and her fiance Mike came into town for a quick Spring Break jaunt. There was plenty of eating, including Rosebud on Rush, Gino’s East, Jimmy’s Grill, and Steak and Shake yummm. Thanks for coming, we had fun!

Let’sGoBowling–The Salvo bowl-a-thon was a success! 6 of us made it to the bowling alley at 4pm on Sunday. Luckily we were there for Glow-in-the-dark disco bowling, so we were grooving to the phunky beat. A good time was had, and my best was a 157. I’m still accepting donations if you are interested.

Happy St. Paddy’s Day. Love, Mason.

Saturday was another volleyball tournament. After tearing through pool play with a 6-2 record, and splitting with the eventual tournament champions, Team Salvo lost in a tight quarterfinals match to Team Euchre. And let me just say, we are sick of losing to those punks. We were playing them off the court for the first 10 points, then promptly allowed them to serve us off the court with jump serves. No matter, we still gained 10 points toward our regional ranking.

So my volleyball team had another tournament yesterday. It was a small one – only 5 teams. 3 would get out of pool play and go for the championship. Unfortunately for us, 3 of the highest seeded teams in the region decided to play. We lost our first 2 matches (2 games each) to the top seeds. The sad thing is that we are capable of beating them, because we promptly went out in our next 2 matches and beat a lower seeded team, and then “Bada-Bing” which is ranked much higher than us in the region. Our mantra yesterday seemed to be get up 21-18 on a team, and then choke. We’re feeling good though since we were on a 4 game winning streak to finish the tournament. Next weekend is a much bigger tournament so hopefully we’ve got some momentum.

The 2003 Salvo Volleyball Bowl-a-thon website is now live. I’d like to thank all of those who decide to donate to my cause. I’m hoping to close out this season with a bang!

The web never ceases to amaze me. I was perusing my comments at Haloscan which I hardly ever do cause no one comments on my drivel, **sniff sniff**, when I found a very curious comment in my archive. He got a hit on “job post to multiple websites.” on ziprz.com because my resume says “All 3 applications involved complex data-driven templates and interactions to accomplish productivity tasks like distributing a job posting to multiple websites, scheduling and maintaining recruiting events, and building Powerpoint presentations online.”

Well, I sent an email tonight to Ross Grossman to see if he still had a need, and to let him know that my employer -TMP in fact does have a product that does this. I’m eagerly waiting to see if my humble little blog generates millions, ok hundreds of dollars in sales. Then I’m going to write a thesis on ‘Blogging from work as an essential revenue generating activity’. Stay tuned.

I’m just curious if online music is ever going to work. I’m sure that people were saying that when CD’s first came to market too. I was an early adopter of MyMP3.com when you could load a CD into your drive and “Beam it” to them to prove that you owned it. Then they would unlock it for you, and let you play it from anywhere. Now you’ve got services like Rhapsody and Pressplay that are testing out similar subscription services.

I think my problem with them is not their offering, it’s the state of current music devices. For someone to feel like they “own” music right now, you’ve got to physically have it on one of many different harddrives in your digital music life. I’ve got one at work, one at home, one on my MP3 player.Then I still have my car CD changer, and my home stereo components that aren’t hard drive based. I’ll get used to paying 99 cents per song when I get to the point where I can have it in my own online harddrive, that isn’t owned by any particular music service, it is owned outright by me. It is my physical hardware that is broadcasting my music collection to me only, to any of the devices in my privately purchased world. The music quality can’t be like today’s “streaming” sound either (unless it is today’s broadband variety which sounds pretty good). Anyone have a better idea?

In my quest to have a completely redundant home computer, and actually surpass my PC with a far cooler Mac, I added another component to my G4 that I got from my dead dot com. I added these bitchin’ speakers. They sound incredible! $99, and worth every penny of my Christmas money. Now I can actually hear the sound in my iMovies, and I’m going to move exclusively to iTunes from my WinAmp PC crap.