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Guess What?!?!

I’m bowling for Big Brothers Big Sisters and I need your support. I have set a personal goal of raising $1000 in sponsorships to help my team (“Northern Lights”) in the BBBS Employee Bowl for Kids’ Sake event on July 18, 2008. Can you support me?

Your contribution will help raise funds for BBBS, and the many programs that BBBS does to impact the lives of our youth throughout our community. Any amount is welcome, and you can contribute by clicking on this link and making your contribution now.

As many of you know, and some of you may not, not only do I work for BBBS, but Chris and I also have been matched with our Little Brother since March this year. For me, this has been an incredible personal journey, and has really impacted my life in a positive way, and far more than I first imagined. Not only do I get to do fun things that some may think I’m too old for, but I am (re-)learning the importance of appreciating the enjoyment that life has to offer.

If each person that receives this email could donate $10.00 then I could easily meet my goal. Of course, donations of any amount are always welcome, and I’m very happy to exceed my goal should that opportunity arise. Can you support my efforts for Bowl for Kids’ Sake today?

Your support is appreciated, and I encourage you to forward this email to your friends, family and colleagues to seek their support for this Bowl For Kids’ Sake program.

For information on the Bowl for Kids’ Sake program, please visit the website at www.bowlforkidssake.org.

Thank you for any support you can offer.

James Nunn

I’m looking up an address in Google Maps for an work meeting earlier today, and I click on send to do my normal “send to email” option, only to find that there were two additional options: car and GPS.

You will need to add a plug-in (IE and FF), and once you have that installed, and your GPS connected, when you click send … it’s loaded to your GPS!

Too cool!

I’ve decided to take some time out from my hectic schedule, and visit my third place to relax for an hour or so. With the storms that have been hitting our area today, it was time to just get out of the house while there was a break in the rain and storms.

Well for those of you in the know, today is my birthday. Some may not realize that it is the big FOUR-OH (40), which doesn’t bother me as much as I thought it would. I got a chance to chat with my mum last night for almost a couple of hours, and I guess that made me feel all that much better. Oh look … it’s raining again.

Chris and many of my friends, surprised me on Saturday with a party at Trader Vic’s on Mockingbird for a Polynesian-esque meal (with drinks). It was truly a surprise! Mainly in part as the person who appeared to be least likely to ever be involved with deception, deceived me. I had kind of expected Chris to be planning something for next weekend, of course that just added to thrill of being surprised. I have to say that I was actually very impressed with the way it all was coordinated, and saddened that I could be so predictable as to make it all work out as well as it did.

Sunday, Chris and I got to spend time with our Little Brother and went to the FC Dallas game for 15 minutes as it was way too hot to spend time outside in a stadium. I didn’t mind that our LB was feeling the heat and wanted to leave, as I was feeling it as well (nothing to do with the party the night before). So we returned to LB’s home and Chris and he swam in the pool, and then we ate pizza and had cake for Big Brother’s Day. Our LB gave us this incredible nice card which had a label marked “Big Brother’s” placed over a Father’s Day card. He even recorded a great message inside the card which was just brilliant to listen to.

The remainder of the week is planned to be quiet as I try to catch up on work — fun, fun