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Saint of the Day

March 17, 2009 planet3rry 5 comments

Let me tell you… things have been busy for me. In fact, write now, I am writing this remotely from the Planet3rry Global Headquarters when I should be home by now. Computer work for a friend…

So, I have a lot to catch everyone up on… all 15 readers! One of the big things is that I ran something around a 19 miler on Sunday with decent results. I have YET the time to map out the course, much less add my workout to my Buckeye Outdoor account. Which, for March shows me as doing NOTHING… but that’s only because I haven’t had the time lately because my 40hr Job has been busy. Not to bore you… although I am already getting sleepy over it… is that the Stimulus Package that President Obama sent out has gotten OFCCP – a Federal Agency to do some more monitoring of the federal funds in construction projects (bored, yet?). Guess who sends them a list of projects for them to inspect in their area each month? You guessed it… ME! And guess who name is on the print out report? Yup… Moi! And who has been fielding calls from the San Fran and NYC office this week? Uh-huh! And guess how much I can help them? Little to none! It’s a contractual issue that may be resolved this week or at least in the step in the right direction. Oh, I talked to long about my 40hr Job AHHHHH COOOOOTIES!!!!

So, if you follow me on Facebook (because I don’t do the twitter thingie… although ASD Athletes is there… so technically, I guess I am with a degree or two from twitter) you’ll see that one of my recent status updates is that I ran today (Tuesday) roughly 6 miles and recorded a little bit of audio for Gravity@1053′ (my podcast). Just a 10 month hiatus… and if work will slow down enough, I am changing the format to a more “record and DUMP” format. It’s a Unformatted, Unscripted and slightly edited format. I am thinking about doing an ASD Athletes podcast… or rather My Lovely and Talented Wife suggested it and since I like podcasting, I thought, maybe that’ll get me in the groove… because if you can do one… you can kinda do two with not much difficulty.

I am sure there are other things that I should blog about… but I gotta get home.

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Been Busy

February 27, 2009 planet3rry 2 comments

Things have been a little frantic in the P3 Universe this week both at work and at home. I did have a good run on Tuesday that is worthy of a blog post of it’s own (i.e. you run faster when you think vagabonds are after you). ASD Athletes has sprouted wings and is getting ready to take off (more on that later, and you can check the website as well www.asdathletes.org).

They are forecasting some crazy weather this weekend end… 50F and Rain today (friday), 40F and Rain tomorrow (Saturday) and then Snow on Saturday night… so when is a good time for me to get my 16 miles in? I have NO idea. At least not one that isn’t cold and/or wet.

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My University for a Faster Computer

January 28, 2009 planet3rry No comments

Things would be A LOT easier if my computer would work as fast I did. Hey, no back talk!

So on my (long) list today was to find out if I was chosen as a Pacer for the (Covenant Health) Knoxville Marathon. I haven’t done that much training to date, enough to manage through 10 miles or without much work. If I was going to be a pacer, I would be using Knoxville as a training run. If I wasn’t a pacer, I needed to Volunteer for a Race Day duty (heehee) such as Course Monitor or Course Monitor and I would even settle for a Course Monitor spot.

I sent in my application and waited until January 15th, the date which the pacers would be announced. I couldn’t find any information about it either on the KTC website nor the Marathon Website. I figured that I must not have been needed, as I didn’t get any notice in my email box regardless that it was posted elsewhere.

Today, I went to go email the coordinator and find out for sure. I needed closure… sniff. But I have an email that says “Thank You for Registering for the 2009 Knoxville Marathon”, so perhaps I am on the team. I don’t know… I have an email out. Will Keep you posted.

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Speaking of Running… I haven’t done a whole lot of it this year so far. But when I was in Arizona, I did noodle out my 2009 Schedule from January to Decemeber with the races that I would like to do. There are some others that I would like to do, but other engagements get in the way of them. There might even be some impromptu races that I might do as well, when the chance arises.

I do plan on having Guess My Time, Win Crap contests for these races. I do know that (if I a chosen) for the pacing team, that there will be a variant of the normal rules and it’ll be a straight Yea or Nea if I made within some confidence interval, the pace time. Also, the Flying Monkey marathon will be a Run Under The Bib contest, which I will attempt to run less than 4hr 38 min which is a reference to my lifetime bib # at FMM of 438. I do not (at this time) plan on running Rutledge, TN the week before. Once a Maniac, you don’t have to qualify for membership. Although…. they do this “Star” level thing and so I want to earn MORE stars… but that is for another year (maybe).

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Some unexpected turn of events happened for ASD Athletes, my non-profit organization to raise money for those athletes on the Autism Spectrum participate in athletics. But the mom of one of The Elder’s past schoolmates was talking with someone that puts on a fundraiser. The mom was going to piggyback The Elder’s Friend’s Birthday Party with the fundraiser (smart) and had mentioned ASD Athletes as a potential charity to support since the fundraiser is on march 28 and World Autism Day is April 1st.

Well, in the interview, the Fundraiser person mention that she was thinking of ASDa as a charity to donate money to and the media put that in the newspaper! I’ll have the article soon, but it’s like DAMN! We are getting this Party Started QUICKLY RIGHT?! So, I got some work to get done. I still have some paperwork to get ASDa to 501(c)(3) status. Is there anyone who wants to pad their resume with some “pro bono” experience with a non-profit organization. I am thinking about my Board of Directors and organzation structure and i think that I might want to have some “at large” peeps in there.

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Our 2008 Christmas Card is slowly working toward a 2009 President’s Day card. We haven’t forgotten about it… it bugs me everyday….

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Pictures are STILL on Stella. I KNOW! I should be taken back and shot with a Canon 5D or something like that… seriously… if it was in my college days, I might have even done some modeling for the art department… (wink wink nudge nudge). Of course, at that time of my life a model of me would have been “Bird-chest with Mullet”

Now that it’s twilight of January, that whole… Picture A Day. 365 Pictures from Terry CRAP is not going to happen. I thought about making a calendar of the pictures and post that as in “This was january… in PICTURES!” or something like that.

But the reason why THAT isn’t taking place is because 1) My Computer at work is slow and only a USB 1.1 which means slow transfer times for pictures (or anything else) and i am finishing up compiling the Family’s Computer Files. What once was on about 50 CDs is now on one computer and files are being archived and saved to USB drives for prosperity. This was started last year and of course, is on the USB 1.1 speed. So, it has taken a LOT longer. Plus, I have to take the files that I have done here at work and combine them with the ones at home… still a headache, but should go faster.

Then, earlier this month, I was in the process of getting ready to move all of my mp3 files to a USB drive to take home when I realized (actually, it was more that I remembered) that my MP3 files are in many organizational formats (locations of songs, etc) and so that was UNACCEPTABLE and so, I have been taking my music collection and have been sorting the songs with the approriate artist, in the appropriate Album Folder format and the proper File Name format. THEN I need to Mass Change the MP3 tags on all of them (thankfully, there are open source programs to do the bulk of this FOR me). I had to practice restraint on myself to ONLY classify files for a certain period of time, then move onto something else. I have been working, so far 16 hours on this… STANDARD FORMAT people… standard format!

And what makes it worse, is that has to look up information… Wikipedia is my friend… so that I know where songs go and if I have to know the order of some albums because of the way they were ripped from CD, the file names are vague to the actual title of the song… or the Track number. But on these sites, there is information about the band… Historical tidbits that are delicacies for my brain… sort of like Bon-Bons for my neurons and so I get absorbed on the sites reading about artist that once were… but I must practice… restraint. Somehow. And not read… much.

So right now I am up to “U” which means that I have 163 Folders left to do… some of which will need no work, some of which will need some and then some that will need overhauling. I expect to begin Tagging tomorrow sometime.

So that has been some of the things that have been going on and some of the reasons why I haven’t been blogging as much as I wanted to… stupid standard formatting.

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Can’t Spell Parties without IEP

December 18, 2008 planet3rry 2 comments

because then it would just be RATS! [queue Schoolhouse Rocks]

Okay… still no step for Terry and no great step for the Running Universe. Although I did get this Wicked Cool (for the Northerners), Count (for the Southerners, I mean, East Tennesseans), Jolly Good (for the British), Fooking Goot (for the Scottish), Gnarly Dude (for the West Coasts) and WOO HOO (for Homer Simpson) NASA hat that I can wear this winter! I am VERY excited.

Earlier this Month (as in 12.5 to 12.8) we went on a cruise to the Bahamas… the short version, because we are now DAYS removed, was that it was not long enough (wahahaha). We were on the Monarch of the Seas with Royal Caribbean to Nassau for a day and then to CocoCay (Royal Caribbean’s Island). This was a business trip for My Lovely and Talented Wife, as she had to “earn” a spot into the workshop that was being hosted by the Group Leaders. So filled with fun, there was learning and inspiration.

I’ll be posting some pictures on my Flikr site… I need to get my Flikr Badge back here on this website… As well as figure out how to get the Facebook Flickr badge as well. I had been hoping to get some camera lens shopping in, but the Bahamas didn’t really have good electronics (that was advertised) near the ship and the second port was scrubbed due to high winds and rain. I don’t think they had anything like that anyway…

As with almost everything Cruise related, it was very fun and enjoyable! Can’t wait to go on another one.

I had THREE Christmas Parties yesterday! First was The Elder’s Christmas party at his school. I went there in the morning and helped with the “Reindeer Food” Station. Helping the kids pour some oats into a tin and then pour a “small” amount of glitter into it “so that the Reindeer could see it from the sky” (wink wink). Anyway, the Reindeer will be able to see me, since I came back with some glitter on me. For being Kindergarteners, they really weren’t all that neat and tidy… glitter was everywhere!

Then, after The Elder’s party, there was MY 40hr Job’s Christmas party, which was a luncheon at a local Bar and Grill. Unfortunately, there was NO Holiday Libations… it would have made it MUCH MORE exciting. Instead we had some nice “traditional” Holiday fare, such as Turkey, green beans, rolls, mashed potatoes, gravy. Then we went back to the office and had desserts. Being that I “forgot” my dessert because I was coming from The Elder’s party, I was a little weary about hanging out there, worried that the Dessert Police would get me. No one noticed, so I didn’t say anything. Our office’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

Then, I went home, were we hosting My Lovely and Talented Wife’s networking group’s Christmas Party. Boy O Boy… it was actually really fun. Although for Blog Material, it was kinda lean.

But this morning we had The Elder’s OT part of the IEP. Now, My Lovely and Talented Wife may have a different perspective but it seems that our IEP team actually cares for our kid and is doing what they can to maximize everything for him. It was almost like an IEP Party in itself! And I am VERY excited, but we may have found The Elder a swim team…

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I am having some WordPress issues. I have upgrade to WP 2.7 without much fanfare, but I had a number of plugins that needed upgrading. Now, I seem to be having some Internal Server Errors (500) that are causing WordPress to soft-crash. Also, my Tiny MCE in my Visual is no where to be seen… So, I have a few things to work out. I am not a big fan of the side menus as my plugin for the condensed menus of WP previous was much faster and more efficient, but who I am to argue over progress.

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ASD Athletes is coming along. I am still in the process of filling out the IRS form 1023, which is the application for IRS tax-deductibleness. I am having to create some sort of “Board” or other “Leadership” structure. So, I am working on getting that and some of the other Narratives that you have to include. It’s a rather lengthy form. My plans is to have that in place early next year, then get some heavy marketing out there and maybe have enough funds to start collect applications by summer with some Fall Sports!

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ASDa Updates

September 3, 2008 planet3rry 5 comments

The charity that I am forming went through 1 major event and 1 milestone this past August.

on 08/16/2008 at the Scholar’s Run 5k, ASD Athletes made its racing debut. The Technical shirts that I had made had their debut, and now that I have them, I know that I am going to wear on race day, every race.

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Plus, I received notice from the State of Tennessee that ASD Athletes is a non-profit entity based in the grand state of Tennessee. The next step is to send in the proper paperwork to the IRS to become a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization meaning that donations would be tax deductible for those of you in the U.S. (and that itemize).

Plans for the Future:
I am planning on setting up a checking account soon and have that linked to a Paypal account (unless someone knows of a better method). I will be offering the leftover shirts that I have on-hand and set up an online store (much like Cafe Press).

I am also curious out there how charities budget. I don’t want to go blinkly blindly [ed. Thanks Pa-Pa] getting money in and not knowing where it needs to go. Can anyone point me to the annual reports of a charity, it doesn’t really matter the size, I’ll just use percentages.

Sponsoring… I’ve probably missed the fall sports to some degree, but there is the Winter Sports and hopefully have plenty of sponsorships for the Spring Sports. So, if you know of any kids or adult that are on the Autistic Spectrum… keep them in mind when I start taking applications.

I plan on posting more details about all of this on the Official ASD Athletes website (www.asdathletes.org)

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ASDathletes

June 21, 2008 planet3rry 5 comments

I have started a new charity, it’s called Autistic Spectrum Disorder Athletes or ASDathletes for short. For a number of years I have wanted to start my own charity/foundation but wasn’t sure what the charity would be about or who it would help.

With the changes over the past year in my household, things just fell into place and PRESTO! ASDathletes was created. Right now, ASDathletes is not a not-for-profit chartable (YET), but I will be getting the paperwork in place to make it a 501(c)(3) organization, this will mean if you decide to donate to ASDathletes, you receive tax deduction benefits, I’ll make an announcement when that happens.

I am very excited about this, but also very scared.

The “working” mission statement is to help those under the umbrella of autism enjoy athletics.

Lets face it, Autism can be pretty expensive: Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Special Diets, etc. Participating in sports is often overlooked or not even considered because of the cost associated with sports. Soccer was an important part of my life and I see now the therapeutic benefits of playing soccer both social and physical. So I have created this charity to help support those who want to participate in sports and help mediate the cost. Who knows, maybe one day, I’ll be sponsoring an Autistic Olympian. It sure would be nice to have a business trip to London in 2012!!!

The website for the charity is www.asdathletes.org

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