Random Thouhts

Email, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr...how does one keep up with it all? I don't know that I do justice to any of these communication forums. I have found Facebook to be the easiest to keep up with, partly because I can monitor and update from my phone, and partly because of the format...it's much easier to do a quick update.

I tried to get my college friends signed up on Facebook, and one replied, "Why? Isn't that what you created the Humboldt Blog for?" He was the only one who updated the blog (and was quite frustrated about that). For whatever reason, most of my college friends didn't completely buy in to the whole blog thing. I explained to him that I think Facebook is more conversational, personal and easier to update. He loves it now that he is signed up.

Why does Starbucks frequently run out of sleeves for their coffee cups? (Coffee collars for those that have seen Made of Honor). I can't understand the logic in this. If you order 1000 cups, order 1000 sleeves! The math is not hard on this, yet they seem to be out of sleeves way too often.

Should I keep doing this blog? I've thought about just moving it over to Facebook, but am not sure yet what I will do. I plan on making my next blog about farting, and am not sure I want that made available to all of my co-workers. I kind of like having this little world to share my thoughts somewhat anonymously.

Gladiator is the best movie ever!! It is one of a few movies that I could watch over and over and over and not get tired of. I am in a year-long Leadership class at work and this months session is on Legacy Leadership. For our homework, we were supposed to provide a 60 second clip from a movie that demonstrates legacy leadership to us. I chose a clip from Gladiator. Not sure how the instructors will use all of the clips, but I will find out on Tuesday.

I watched some of the performances and speeches at the Inauguration party today. I am not sure how to feel about all of the Inauguration hoopla. I find a lot of it all to be rather self-indulgent, and I think the cost ($150 million) is an outrageous amount to spend on a big party in the current economic environment. But I also understand the historic nature of this election and what it means to many people. I'll be glad when it's all done and people have something else to focus on.