Tuesday Has No Phones

Attention! On June 5 I will once again be participating in a charity walk to benefit a local cancer center. For a snapshot image of said center I shall shamelessly steal from the first post I did when I did this:

[T]he Carl & Dorothy Bennett Cancer Center is a place for healing, where they like to say that science and soul come together. Their patients are provided with a superior level of clinical care and access to world-class physicians, skilled nurses and the latest in treatment options, research protocols and supportive services. A full-range of cancer services is available in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, with the oncology team working together to provide the best possible outcome for their patients.

The June 5 Walk, Run, & Ride is their biggest fundraising event. All money goes directly to the cancer center and is 100% tax-deductible.

Why do I mention this? So you can SPONSOR ME!!! You can donate online via that oh so handy and easy to use link and pay by credit card. If you would rather mail your donation in feel free to let me know and I can email you the relevant information.

I know the economy sucks, but every little bit helps. Even weetiny donations are welcome. The Bennett Cancer Center is where my Uncle Tommy got some of his treatment. It also does research so it's not like a donation here only benefits the center.

So please please please please sponsor me. Also please feel free to pimp this link and plea for help in your personal LJs or blogs or what have you, if you are so inclined.

Thank you thank you thank you!

Today was my walk for Hope in Motion. HUGE crowd this year. HUGE. I'm going to be interested in seeing the final stats, to see how things compared to last year.

It was hot and humid but thankfully the sun didn't come out until the very end.

All told my team raised $1,010 this year, which meant we surpassed our team goal by $10. Many many thanks to those of you who donated to support me this year! Couldn't have done it without you!

Coming into this late thanks to work, but once again I am walking to support the Bennett Cancer Center. As I am lazy efficient, I shall simply cut and paste from previous entries on the subject:

[T]he Carl & Dorothy Bennett Cancer Center is a place for healing, where they like to say that science and soul come together. Their patients are provided with a superior level of clinical care and access to world-class physicians, skilled nurses and the latest in treatment options, research protocols and supportive services. A full-range of cancer services is available in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, with the oncology team working together to provide the best possible outcome for their patients.

The June 6 Walk, Run, & Ride is their biggest fundraising event. All money goes directly to the cancer center and is 100% tax-deductible.

Why do I mention this? So you can SPONSOR ME!!! You can donate online via that oh so handy and easy to use link and pay by credit card. If you would rather mail your donation in feel free to let me know and I can email you the relevant information.

I know the economy sucks, but every little bit helps. Even weetiny donations are welcome. The Bennett Cancer Center is where my Uncle Tommy got some of his treatment. It also does research so it's not like a donation here only benefits the center.

So please please please please sponsor me. Also please feel free to pimp this link and plea for help in your personal LJs or blogs or what have you, if you are so inclined.

Thank you thank you thank you!

I'm so close! Mere inches from goal! The event is this Sunday, so you still have time to sponsor my walk for the Bennett Cancer Center.

(With thanks to all those who have donated already)

Attention! On June 7 I will once again be participating in a charity walk to benefit a local cancer center. For a snapshot image of said center I shall shamelessly steal from the first post I did when I did this:

[T]he Carl & Dorothy Bennett Cancer Center is a place for healing, where they like to say that science and soul come together. Their patients are provided with a superior level of clinical care and access to world-class physicians, skilled nurses and the latest in treatment options, research protocols and supportive services. A full-range of cancer services is available in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, with the oncology team working together to provide the best possible outcome for their patients.

The June 7 Walk, Run, & Ride is their biggest fundraising event. All money goes directly to the cancer center and is 100% tax-deductible.

Why do I mention this? So you can SPONSOR ME!!! You can donate online via that oh so handy and easy to use link and pay by credit card. If you would rather mail your donation in feel free to let me know and I can email you the relevant information.

I know the economy sucks, but every little bit helps. Even weetiny donations are welcome. The Bennett Cancer Center is where my Uncle Tommy got some of his treatment. It also does research so it's not like a donation here only benefits the center.

So please please please please sponsor me. Also please feel free to pimp this link and plea for help in your personal LJs or blogs or what have you, if you are so inclined.

Thank you thank you thank you!

So today I did work with Habitat for Humanity. I've wanted to do stuff with them for YEARS and one of the nice things about Primatech is that Habitat is one of their sponsored charities. So you can go work at Habitat for a day and it doesn't come out of your vacation days. Obviously there are limits. One couldn't, say, work at Habitat ALL the time and still get paid. But for helping out now and again it's nice that the company allows you to make time for it.

It was, as you might imagine, cold. But I'd dressed in layers and had on a scarf and such so it wasn't too bad. I also put my coat back on when we got to more still labor, like hammering.

We started the day with post hole digging. This was my first moment of "Are you sure you're going to be okay with that, young lady?" which I found very funny because the options were digging or going up on the rickety roof. Yeah, give me digging anyday. Plus I don't mind digging. I probably would've volunteered for it anyway. Whenever it snows I tend to clean out around my car and then clean out around the cars of elderly neighbors if I haven't yet killed myself from exhaustion. And of course there was the tunnel to the center of the earth I dug for my lilac bush, which gave me much practice in the subset of digging known as "SHIT this state has a lot of rocks in it."

That latter skill came in very handy when the hole I and my (male) partner were working on turned out to have what I surmise was the original foundation or walkway for the house buried under our shovels. My guess is that in days gone by these slabs were repurposed ballast from the ships that used the local port. Either way it required some doing and I was happy to dig in - heh - and do my part.

Later on was putting insulation on windows and this is when I think we had more people than we had tasks to do. (I also think my team blitzed through the planned tasks for the day much faster than the coordinators anticipated. Like I think they thought the digging would last all day and we finished with an hour to spare before lunch) Anyway, this was another moment of amusing sexism for me because I was doing some hammering and just as I started one of my teammates - a guy in my department at work - looked at me and asked "Are you... okay with that?" And I just replied "Pointy end of the nail goes towards me... right?" in my dry, CJ Cregg manner. Though in my head I was kinda like... dude. Hammer. Nails. I realize there's a stereotype about women and tools but 1) I'm pretty sure chimps have brains enough to get hammer/nails down and 2) You just saw me do the post hole digging task so it's not like you should be under the impression that I'm too girly to get my hands dirty.

Though admittedly I did not fight to usurp this guy's place with some of the later tasks because he was one of the guys who vanished for at least an hour in the morning in the name of getting coffee, and that was a solid hour of digging work by those of us left behind. So if he finally felt like doing some work - mazel tov. I was just amused at how apparently having hammer, nails, and a uterus flashed error messages in his brain.

We finished up a half hour early. I grabbed Panera on my way home and tried to warm up again which I may manage sometime... today, I'm hoping. (Being warm, I'm already home. That was thankfully managed quickly.) And I can tell that my back and knees are going to be loving me tomorrow for all of today's hard work so I'm going to be a good girl and not run the errands I was thinking of running and instead stay home and relax and cook and be good friends with Advil and Icy Hot.

So that was my day.

It is, omg, so freaking hot outside. I bring you links, not coherence.( Not that I'm ever coherent )

Okay, so another round of me sharing the links that I find during the day and any comments I may have on them.

( The tags should indicate the topics )

My day went very quickly. Helped, I think, in no small part to how I got out of bed at ONE PM WTFBODYWTF??

Still, with my eye on the prize of my walk tomorrow I made it a point to chill out as much as I could. There was catching up on Tivo, reading of magazines, eating of food when I remembered that was a good way to keep myself alive. The usual. Also much snuggling with kitties, which is never a bad thing.

My walk is tomorrow morning. I've got all my things set up. Digital camera shall be coming with me, so hopefully I can get some good pictures for y'all. I also pulled out one of my old tour guide hats (excellent for keeping the sun off of your head) so I'm going to be pretty easy to spot, I'm sure.

Beyond that I shall be heading off to grab a shower and some sleep. I'll update y'all after the fact.

And if you'd still like to SPONSOR ME you can! SAVE THE BENNETT CANCER CENTER SAVE THE WORLD!!! THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M ABLE TO MAKE THAT JOKE AND I'M GOING TO DO IT, DAMN IT!

Night!

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO SPONSOR ME!!!!!! Bennett Cancer Center! Awesome charity! Walk is this Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!!!

(And huge, MONDO thanks to all who have donated so far!)