I’ll be spending the day at the General Assembly again. I don’t know if I’ll be posting blog entries from there, or if I’ll wait to reflect on things and write when I get home. I was really happy with my first blog entry from last week’s visit, but the second entry could have been …
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Hired.
Yesterday I suggested that I start going to the General Assembly once a week and blogging my observations, with the caveat that I needed enough interest from folks to justify it. “Interest” being demonstrated by people ponying up the cash to cover the cost of gas and parking, not because it’s terribly expensive, but because …
New year’s resolutions.
Start more projects, but maintain fewer. That is, bring good things into the world, but don’t overcommit. Become conscious of my own health and physical well-being. I’m quite healthy, but I’m not going to be in my 20s forever. Return to the habit of saving money. For two years I was a student, and got …
Progress on Charlottesville Blogs.
In today’s Charlottesville Daily Progress, Liesel Nowak has a nice story about Charlottesville Blogs: On his cvillenews.com, local blogger Waldo Jaquith is celebrating a milestone: the creation of 100 Charlottesville blogs. […] In Jaquith’s estimation, it is imperative to link those interests within the same community. That’s why he started cvillenews.com, a blog that contains …
Christmas Eve.
Sorensen graduation in Charlottesville.
This past weekend, we of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership’s 2005 Political Leaders class had our final monthly session and our graduation ceremony. The bulk of our weekend was spent in the dome room of the Rotunda, which was a fine note on which to wrap up the ten-month program. On Friday night we …
You are who you decide to be.
Just before New Year’s Eve, 1993, I sat down to write a list of resolutions. Instead, I ended up writing a list of things that would be totally unlike me to do, things that other people do. Over the course of an hour or so, I listed something like fifty skills, hobbies, or accomplishments that …
VPTC Blogging Panel Tomorrow
I’ll be speaking at a Virginia Piedmont Technology Council panel on Thursday (tomorrow). The 90-minute lunch, “‘Casting for Customers,” is all about blogging and business. Sean Tubbs, Edward Cossette, Michael Prichard and I will talk about how businesses can embrace blogs, take part in the Charlottesville blogging community, and use it for the betterment of …
Sorensen in Virginia Beach.
Amber and I are spending the weekend in Virginia Beach. It’s a Sorensen weekend, and we’re all the way east this month. We had a wide variety of topics this time. We started with a tour of the port authority early yesterday afternoon, which was really impressive. Sen. Ken Stolle and Del. Lynwood Lewis addressed …
Sabato class report.
Norman Leahy, Rick Sincere and I spoke to Larry Sabato’s Campaigns and Elections class last night, here at UVa. It was actually a lot of fun. The students were knowledgeable and engaged, and the three of us make a fine trio. Rick Sincere suggests that he and I should take our show on the road …