So – tonight I got the “upgrade” to the free drink section on my flight home. Before the booze set in I began to wonder, “I wonder if my peeps would sponsor my drinks like a benefit ride/run while I fly home”. It must have been a rough week So what’s the word? If all the proceeds go to charity who would sponsor me at the $1 per drink on my flights? I could setup a paypal payment method to make it easy, announce when I get the free drink upgrades, and give a count of how many at the end of the flight. Those so inclined could drop the appropriate # of duckets (aka dollars) via paypal, and they would find their way to <insert charitable cause here>. Currently my flights are about 4 hours long, and I’m at drink #6 (switching to jack and coke after they ran out of vodka tonics – my bad . So, you could get yourself on the hook for about $6-7 bucks on a good flight for me – woooooohoooooo!!!!!! Lemmie know your thoughts. I promise not to end up in AA as a result of this Comments encouraged!

Well, I had some charity work as part of my goals for the year and have finally managed to achieve some progress.  Right now I decided to be a little creative about it.  So, what did I do?  Well, the company next door handles disposal (of many different things) for commercial clients.  One of their recent loads was some old computer equipment.  My friend Judy volunteers for Rocky Mountain Housing Development Corporation, a non-profit that provides housing and related services to low & mid income families.  One of the “services” is computer centers in the housing developments.  So, I asked nicely, and was allowed to intercept some old equipment with no hard drives (removed for corporate security), CPU’s, monitors, keyboards, mice and some assorted cables.  Then I put an ad on craigslist asking for some hard drives for a charity project.  Oneda with Lifebyte Oxe was generous enough to provide some hard drives to the project.  In total, I was able to deliver 3 complete working CPU’s with all keyboards and cables, 2 working monitors and 3 more CPU’s for spare parts.  Judy is happy as they have a new computer center that they need equipment for and this will give them a nice start.  Also, I plan to keep an eye out for more equipment, and I’ll be sure to contact both Judy and Oneda and see if they have any current needs.  My understanding is that some kids who probably would not have access to computers otherwise will now have a place where they can work on schoolwork, and have a chance to learn some basic computer skills.

The next creative project will probably deal with some kind of food drive, I’ll probably be rallying some of the Denver folks for this as well.  It will be a spin off from the “dinner club” crew. 

Enjoy the day!