I’m getting a couple of old PC’s out of the closet and ready for recycle. I took a look through the hard drives for anything I might want to keep before I nuke them. I found a PowerPoint slideshow I used in 2006 as a backdrop for some of the social media talks I did traveling around Oregon. Goin
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02/24/2013
We had a lot of fun and celebration at Thursday's sales meeting. Looking through my iPhone photos I caught this one over Michelle Naylor's shoulder, iPhone to iPhone... We're #1 in our market! (YAY!) Our dearest friend and co-worker Julie Satko is back on the job after a leave for cancer treatmen
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02/22/2013
My heart sank when I heard the news that Renton Western Wear was closing its doors. It caught me off guard. After all, since the first of the year it seems like all I hear is good news about our recovering real estate market, job growth, and the economy. Yet, last week driving through downtown wa
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02/22/2013
Boathouse 19 opened in July of 2012 at the Narrows Marina, in Tacoma, Washington. It was a real boathouse back in the day and has kept that ambiance with a traditional use of woods that hearkens back to another time in the Pacific Northwest. From the deck, this is looking north at the Narrows Bri
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02/14/2013
My Uncle Pete Delaurenti was the kind of guy every kid would love to have as an uncle. A tad eccentric, self-taught, creative, a musician, and almost always cheerful with a warm smile, he was one of the family’s entrepreneurs. Delaurenti Music Store was in the front half of his home on Rainier Av
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02/12/2013
There’s a spot on Interstate 5 when you’re heading northbound into downtown Seattle. The Space Needle shows up next to the Smith Tower and appears as if it’s right downtown amongst all the other buildings. I discovered this view one day when I was stuck in traffic on the morning commute and becam
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02/08/2013
I caught myself the other day impatiently waiting for the next age. You know, the one after this one. “That’s interesting,” I thought to myself, and a bit ironic given the fact that I go through most days scrambling to get through that ‘so much to do in so little time’. Technology had me in its g
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02/05/2013
And I thought my car was a mess! My postings are a little slim lately. I've been in the field a lot and teaching classes. Yesterday I drove up to Issaquah to meet with Susan Edwards and Jenny Clausen, two of our account managers on the Eastside. We met at Starbucks on NW Gilman Blvd to talk about
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02/01/2013
