PodCamp Western Mass 4

Yes, the fourth edition of PodCamp Western Mass is approaching. Tickets just went on sale for the event to be held at Holyoke Community College on Feb 25th.

Alas, I will miss this one as the Franklin Food Pantry will be conducting day 2 of our annual phone drive.

Just because I will miss this, doesn't mean you should too!

Tickets can be purchased here   http://pcwm4.eventbrite.com/

You can join the Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/PodCampWesternMa

#PCWM4
#PCWM

Sports Sunday

This is the in-between week for the New England Patriots as they approach Super Bowl Sunday against the New York Giants.

As a soccer fan, my New England Revolution are in pre-season and there is a bunch of news around the team as they prepare including word that the long talked of new stadium may be in Revere.

Revs stadium in Revere?

from New England Soccer Today by Sean Donahue

Revolution 2, FC Tucson 1

from New England Revolution RSS Feed

Heaps sees “good and bad” in preseason opener

from New England Revolution RSS Feed

So what sports will you fill the gap with today?

Patti Digh has a podcast!

Patti Digh introduced a new website design for 2012 and now introduces a podcast!

If you haven't heard of Patti, she is one to read and follow. I have been fortunate to have found her several years ago. Long time readers will recall an interview I posted here once upon a time when she published her book "Life is a Verb". You can find all this in the archives and collected here
http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-week-with-patti-digh-life-is-verb.html

Or simply skip the past for now and dig into her current work with the first podcast here

Enjoy!

Able Giving

I found this too late to really try and take advantage of it for the Food Pantry.  http://www.ablegiving.com/


The small print disclosure reveals the motive behind the campaign

By providing your email, you will also receive an exclusive invite to sign up for ableBanking, where you can continue using your banking for good.

So for the expense of about $5,000 AbleGiving gets email addresses for MA residents who they can then turn around and try to obtain an account from.

From the archives

No special message to start with today, so I'll dig into the archives to find out what has been published on this date in prior years here.

http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2011/01/dark-buttons.html

this day in 2010 was skipped

http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2009/01/fm-29-is-ready.html

this day was also skipped in 2008

http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2007/01/deja-brew-production-results.html

http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2006/01/secret-is-out-best-gifts-are-simple.html

this day was skipped in 2005

This blog was born in September of 2004 so there was nothing for January of that year.

Change

What was:



Is no longer:



Change can happen rapidly and frequently, are you ready for change?

Making tracks

"The early bird gets the worm" must have been a warm weather saying.



Where do you find a worm in the snow cover?

Snow capped

We ended up with at least six inches of fluffy white snow here in Franklin. If the weather forecast holds true, this may all get washed away with rain and temperatures in the 50's on Monday.




Not good for snow balls, forts, or snowmen but we'll enjoy the sight for now.