PatrickMMoore.com

I’ve moved my blog from here to www.PatrickMMoore.com. Check us out in primetime on the root URL!

This is a cross-post from our travel blog at www.PatrickandMaryGoRound.com:

I spent a few minutes adding some bells to the old GoRound (OK, not that old). You’ll notice that our Contact page has a map of last location and a link to our skype status. Feel free to give us a call on skype if so you’re inclined …

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This is a cross-post from our travel blog at www.PatrickandMaryGoRound.com:

A lot of recommendations of things to do, places to stay, travel tips and sites to see have been rolling in from all over — even from some unexpected places! These have been great and a good recommendation goes a long way with helping to set-up our plans. Also, we had some great safety tips for traveling in Ecuador. …

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This is a cross-post from our travel blog at www.PatrickandMaryGoRound.com:

Mary and I have a working idea of our itinerary for the big trip. Here’s the order of countries, length of stay and approximate dates that we’re considering …

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I posted 4 new videos of the little darling Dorothy Nettle to Google Video. These are the same links available through Dorothy’s Facebook Fan Club so that nobody is missing out on any of her sweetness. She SO much more awake after her first week, but is sticking to a good schedule of sleeping, nursing and looking cute. I haven’t organized any of our Dorothy pictures, yet, but will post links to those once I have.

And now, the links:
Video # 4: Dorothy with her Aunts
Video # 5: Dorothy with Hiccups
Video # 6: Family Dinner
Video # 7: Dorothy’s First Fire

Mary and I are prepping for our trip, which we plan to share with family and friends. An easy way to share stories and photos will be to blog from the road and post pictures online. Over the weekend, we registered a URL to make both of those possible:

Introducing PatrickandMaryGoRound.com*

* This is a Phoebe Lee production

Right now, we are working out all the aspects of style and getting the pages organized… stay tuned for more updates!

I realize that not everybody is a fan of FaceBook. I wanted to make sure that anybody who wanted to see the little darling had a chance to see videos of her. As such, there are three links (below) to Google Videos that are copies of the ones I posted to FaceBook.

Video # 1: Almost Dinner Time
Video # 2: Mom, Dad and 2 Grandmas
Video # 3: What? Were you born yesterday?

Drop me a line if you have any issues viewing these videos.

I have spent the past few days working from Beautiful Seneca Lake, which has been enjoyable, for sure! It’s interesting (especially in my line of work) to witness which aspects of my workflow continue uninterupted and which pieces are all messed up. For example, I am ALOT more responsive to emails now, because I am not ‘down the hall’ or in a conference room, etc. However, my ability to connect with people is diminished. I can’t storm into someones office and demand that they answer my questions. I am also out of sight such that when the bossman comes looking around for a voluteer, I’m off his radar.

Marc, if you’re reading this, I’m sure that I’ll still be on YOUR radar… man… I’m speaking more generally.

I enjoy stretching the norms and seeing how things work when people are not necessarily co-located. I think that’s an aspect of potentially large cost-savings as the workforce moves away from tablets/chisels and towards laptops/cell phones.

I am planning to work remotely (except for a couple days) for the entirety of August and the beginning of September. So far, I’ve been wearing the same blue bathing suit and occassionally sunglasses (when an email is REALLY bright). I have a small networking project that would bring WiFi access to the beach. The ultimate goal of the summer is to work for an entire day without needing to leave the hammock — except for the occassional swim… of course.

During July, I managed to bike to work on 12 of 31 days in the month.

Of the 31 days during the month, I worked 19 days. I drove one day and totaled 6 days walking/taking metro.

At the end of the month, I biked to work a total of 12 days.

After 7 Months, I’ve biked to work a total of 103 of the total 213 days.

I posted the following platform idea to the RNC’s National Security Issues platform at 2:07 PM on July 23rd:

Pay our dues, in full, to the UN. Multilateralism is an effective show of strength, around the world and here in the US. This strength requires (a relatively small) financial commitment to the UN and overwhelming support to its goals. The GOP platform MUST emphasize engagement in global matters through engagement in the United Nations. In addition to our regularly assessed dues, UN Peacekeeping is the single least expensive national security activities available in today’s world.

I am also planning to post this idea to OnDayOne.org - Another good site for the National Committees to check out for platform suggestions.