This was sent to me by a friend today and thought is was very insightful...

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours
in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in
front of him.

When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty
mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.

Lots of people have seen the ads from FreeCreditReport.com, but did any one really know that their service is not actually free? The FTC (yes, the United States Federal Trade Commission) has put out their own ad without directly referencing the previously mentioned website. Their version of the ad promotes www.annualcreditreport.com, which is a site that I use every year to personally check my credit as well. I highly recommend everyone going to www.annualcreditreport.com and getting their truely free credit report from all three major credit reporting agencies such as Transunion, Experian and Equifax.

While you're at it, take a look at the FTC's commercial for www.annualcreditreport.com below.

I read a very interesting article on http://www.wikihow.com on How to Date an Entrepreneur. Some if it is quite funny; however, being an entrepreneur myself, I can relate to a lot of it. I found myself chuckling on a few things within the article. Here it is:

How to Date an Entrepreneur

I was sent an interesting tid-bit of information from my family this morning. I've always heard of this, but when you do the math, keeping appliances plugged in even though they are not "on", they are still consuming power. The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates 5% of energy use is from phantom sources (basically an appliance left plugged in but not being used by you).

My sister (Becca D.) and her "significant other" (Jeremy) have been working hard over the last year on an environmentally friendly small business called Atayne (http://www.atayne.com). As a business owner myself (Netarus and TeleArk) and Becca's brother, I'm really proud of both of them as it is a lot of work to get a business off the ground. However, from a purely unfiltered and unbiased perspective, I love the concept of providing products that are environmentally friendly and practical. I've personally seen in the past where many products are considered "green" but are overpriced and serve little or no purpose other than claiming that they are environmentally friendly. Don't even get me started on the whole natural versus organic debate... I'll leave that for another rant.

I watched this game from beginning until the end. What a great game! Go Hokies!

More information: http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20090102aaa.html

In memory of those that lost their lives on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16, 2007 - one year ago today.

The photo above represents the mascots from all of the major universities in the State of Virginia.