Earth Day Cleanup
This morning I spent a few hours picking up litter as part of Leicester’s Earth Day Cleanup. Another volunteer and I pulled up nine bags of trash from Paxton Street. (Unfortunately we didn’t find any winning lottery tickets hahaha). Thanks to Ashley Daige for organizing.
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New England Revolution
Tonight Justin, Wendy, me and Jen went to Gilette Stadium to see the New England Revolution soccer take on the Philadelphia Union. I got free tickets the team offered to Boston Marathon volunteers. Thanks, Revs, for thinking of us; very classy. (Revs won, 2-0).
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Bull Terrier
Most of the dogs to be adopted at the Worcester Animal Rescue League are staffordshire terrier mixes, usually known as pit bulls. This week, though, we have a few new breeds, including a part-retriever, a doberman, a little pekingese, and this guy, Eggbert, a rare bull terrier.
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Worcester’s Got Talent
Jen’s birthday weekend… meeting up with Gabe and Kristy at The Fiddler’s Green for karaoke. They crushed it.
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Good mojo mobo
Last year we received an in-kind donation from a local company of about 30 used Dell OptiPlexes GX620s. What the company’s community relation’s spokesperson didn’t tell us was 25 of the OptiPlexes had blown capacitors. This week I’m finishing a project to buy and install new motherboards in about five of the computers (and we’ll recycle the other 20). I actually like this part of my job, working with my hands.
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A soffit landing
I saw this while driving by the Honey Farms on Pleasant Street. The soffit of the roof collapsed. Fortunately no one was hurt.
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Asa Waters Mansion
This morning I had an interview with the Millbury Historic Society for an upcoming series I’m writing. We had the meeting at the Asa Waters Museum. This mansion was built in 1824 by Asa Waters II, scion to a colonial-era gun-making dynasty (seven generations!). He later became a banker and Mass. State Rep.
There was some really cool stuff in the museum, especially the Civil War realia. I hope to be able to describe them all in my articles.
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Done!!
Since January 2012 I’ve been involved in a one-man project at work to upgrade all out PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7. This is a picture of my to-do board. There are about 50 Dells of all different models (so I couldn’t make just one universal image). I had a few setbacks along the way, including a batch of donated GX620s that I discovered later almost all had blown capacitors. After sixteen months, I finally installed the last computer in one of our clinician’s offices. One thing I’ve grown to appreciate is NiNite – that’s a great little application.
Anyways, my next major project is inventory spring cleaning – to spruce up and donate /sell all of our creaky old DDR OptiPlexes.
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Hair today…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a news story on Marc Theroux, a Grafton resident who’s running the Boston Marathon to raise money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He’d promised his friends that if he made his fundraising goal, he’s shave off his long(ish) hair. As of today he’d made $14,000, $5,000 over his goal. This morning, Marc picked up some coffee and pastries and invited everyone to the gym that he co-owns to witness the historic haircut. Good job, Marc! See you at the finish line next Monday.
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