Watch this full screen for the full effect.

You need to see this cool video of some dudes base jumping and flying literally within inches of the ground. Your heart will pump just watching this!

I’m pleased with the new presentation and think it provides a more professional look and easier navigation.

I’m curious to know what you think! Leave your suggestions and comments below.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thursday nite, ICAA, the Independent College Advancement Associates, had their 50th anniversary celebration and the annual awards ceremony. At the ceremony I won the ICAA Newcomer Award, which is presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to their functional area. I was extremely excited to win the award for my work with our database at Bluffton University and my work with young alumni at our institution.

Well, I just wanted to brag a little, tommorow I have to go back to work and get a phonathon pull ready!

We had a fun day at Bass Pro and then enjoyed lunch at the Granite Counter at Fallen Timbers which had excellent food as well as a a wonderful summer ale. We also took in a showing of Hancock which was way different than what I expected but, very enjoyable.

Anyway, we got back and after checking my sparkplugs found one to be very loose! Unfortunately tightening it didn’t solve the problem as the threads were worn out. We quickly located a thread repair kit at Autozone and proceeded to spend several hours re-threading the spark plug socket and after some cursing and some innovation on our part had the car re-assembled where it sat until this morning so that the sealant could cure.

Thankfully the engine turned over and after a rough start ran pretty smoothly during my limited test run. Lets hope that it stays that way, otherwise I’ll need to find a new ride, something like a Jeep Wrangler.

I just got home from graduation today at Bluffton University! I received my Masters degree in business administration after 2 years of hard work with some great classmates. I can’t wait to have my Tuesday nites back! I am already looking forward to spending more time with Amber, more time blogging and enjoying some more video games.

I am also looking forward to teaching my first class this fall at Bluffton. I will be teaching a business course, Introduction to Information Systems, It is a 300 level course which meets two days a week. It is really great because the class content hooks into my daily job at Bluffton as well and it is highly applicable to the real world. I hope the students will enjoy it. I need to start soliciting for textbooks from the publishers so that I can find the right one to use. I don’t think I will be able to to make a major change in text books but I hope that by the next time I teach a course I can use something digital and or open source!

Updates may be sparse or less lengthy as I pull into the homestretch of my MBA program at Bluffton University.  I will be wrapping up my final class on April 29th and cannot wait!  April 29th is also the same day that GTA 4 comes out so I’ll be taking the 30th off to get knee deep in Liberty City.

What are my plans after graduation you ask?  I am planning on staying on at Bluffton and I hope to get involved a  little more with Young Alumni cultivation and I also hope to use some of my new-found free time to blog more.

With horrendous weather on the way for my area of Ohio I have to wonder what will happen to the election if the local Sheriff declares a level 3 emergency.  When a level 3 is declared by local law enforcement only necessary personnel are allowed to travel, basically doctors, nurses, road cleaning crews.  In such a hyped election with anticipated record turnout for a primary in Ohio one has to wonder what would happen if the weather prevented the election form happening.  I’m not talking about people sitting at home due to some raindrops but from the local Sheriff essentially ordering people to not vote!  Granted I have only been voting for a few elections but I haven’t encountered as severe a storm as they are predicting for tonite.

I’ll be interested to see how the primary plays out in Ohio if the weather is bad enough to warrant road and school closings.  Anyone out there with more years of experience know what happens to the election in the event that being on the road is enough to earn you a ticket.  Now if only I could remember, was the Sheriff wearing a Hillary or an Obama button?  Hmmm…

An artist who is particularly adept at stacking eggs has created a cityscape out of stacked eggs. I don’t know who this is or how he does it but it is amazing and eggciting.

Cityscape made of Eggs

Sometimes you get to work and the day proceeds much like a scene from Office Space. Unfortunately my week ended on a Office Space note and began on one as well. To summarize my week thus far I invite Michael Bolton and Samir Nagheenanajar to elaborate.

Samir: No, not again. I… why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window.

Michael Bolton: You and me both, man. That thing is lucky I’m not armed.

Sigh, in other news I went to the Toledo Auto Show on Saturday and go tto check out some amazing new cars and play around with the new Sync feature in select Fords as well as speak to someone at corporate Chevy about the Equinox we bought form Yark Automotive in Toledo. The Equinox has experienced issues starting shortly after we bought it and had a safety issue which the rep lied to us about. In other words Yark Auto in Whitehouse and Toledo is not the place to buy a car. More on the autoshow, our Yark Automotive experience and how not to email potential customers coming hopefully later this week….Now back to our regularly scheduled Office Space viewing.

I didn’t send in this secret to Postsecret, but if it doesn’t nail a guilty pleasure of mine I don’t know what does.  Beware friends, if you leave the protective film on your gadgets I will free them.  That film is not a screen protector and Dell didn’t include a logo protector either.