Lotus 911 is an awesome company. They set up this great site using Lotus Connections called Bleed Yellow. It will probably be the Facebook of the Lotus community. It’s free to join, and you can get a handle on what Lotus Connections is all about. Try it out today…

No, don’t try it out… USE IT! JOIN THE COMMUNITY!

Thank you Lotus 911!

I see that Devin ‘Spanky’ Olson and. John ‘Greyhawk’ Roling are partnered up for the Lotusphere Boat Races. Awesome! Devin and I ended up in 2nd place last year. I hoped that he would get a great partner since I wasn’t going, and he hit the JACKPOT! Bet the house baby! It’s a lock! The real question is this… Is it ‘Team Lake Michigan’ or ‘Team Midwest’? By the way, you can still sign up… but hurry! Slots are filling up fast! Good luck, my brothers!

Happy birthday to my beautiful wife, Jennifer. For some silly reason, she sticks by me through thick and thin (and believe me, lately it’s THIN)!

Honey, I promise that when the dust settles, I’ll take you out to dinner and get you something nice…

From Devin Olson’s Blog:

I have accepted a position at Lotus 911 starting Monday, January 21st.

Congratulations Devin! Congratulations also to Lotus911 for picking up one heck of a first round draft choice!

Even though I’m not going to Lotusphere (and there’s a chance I may never attend again), I’m still caught up in the buzz of it. I’ve done it before, and I’ll do it again… I’m living it thru all of my friends who will be attending. (BTW, anyone want to pick up a C.U.L.T. shirt, size 2XL, for me? I’ll pay for shipping and handling!)

Want to get caught up in the buzz also? Check out a REALLY COOL AND AWESOME website => PlanetLotus.org. It’s your connection to everything and everybody Lotus!

Anyone else have any suggestions for good sites as we rev up for LS?

May it be better than the way 2007 ended! Peace and Good Will to all!

Still maintaining radio silence, but wanted to wish everyone (yea, I mean EVERYONE… it is the holidays after all…) a very Merry CHRISTmas! Remember the reason for the season!

It has been sooo long since I posted anything, and to be honest, I don’t know why. As I sit here reading everyone else’s blogs (for the first time in a while… sorry my friends) announcing that my friend Paul Mooney and the gang at Blue Wave Technology acquired my other friend Warren Elsmore and the fine folks at BE Systems, I wonder to myself, “Why do I feel so out of the loop?”

I really have had a lot to say… Things I’ve started blogging and things I’ve started podcasting, but as I review it, I begin to delete it all. I think that part of it is guilt that I haven’t been blogging or podcasting. Part of it is that a lot of my rage and anger will come out, and I’ll say something stupid (well, more stupid than usual).

I’m not sure where I’m at anymore, or even what I’m doing in life. All I know is that I love my wife and daughter and that’s about it. I know that for many that is enough, but I used to have a lot more going, but it seems to fade all away. I don’t feel like a contributor in life anymore… just a consumer. For me, that’s no way to live life.

I don’t mean to sound like a buzzkill… I really am happy for everyone else (including the posse at Idea Jam… Bruce and Gayle, Matt, Sean… what a sweet idea that needed to be done!), I’m just not sure I’m ‘there’ anymore.

If you read my blog via RSS, you wouldn’t notice anything other than I haven’t been blogging, but those of you (the 5 or 6 of you) that actually visit my blog will now notice that it is back to its old self and is no longer displaying just a dark blue-grey page. Besides backing up when you upgrade templates, make sure you review all of the configuration documents in Blogsphere and make sure that all of the values are selected. One radio button that was not selected kept me out of action.

But I’m feeling much better now…

…but not for me (yet), but for my brother in all things beer and Lotus Notes/Domino, Devin ‘Spanky’ Olson. According to his blog, his contact ends on September 30th. With his talent and skills (and with ‘the Big Guy’s help’), I have no doubt in my mind that he’ll be picked up by some lucky company. Good luck, even though you probably won’t need it!

Now me on the other hand…