Off to NOLA

The responses to the last two podcasts have been great. Thanks folks for your warm thoughts.
Stay tuned for some interesting posts and several podcasts next week. T., the dogs and I are traveling to New Orleans. We have tours scheduled of the Lighthouse f/t blind, a ghost tour, a tour of the National World War II museum, a hands-on tour of the Pharmacy Museum, and we're working on more! We are going to meet with a representative from the convention and visitors center on Monday and are excited about seeing this great city. We had actually planned to go to Jacksonville Florida for our summer vacation, but I found some interesting trips on Orbitz to New Orleans that caught our attention. I feel good spending our money in an economy that certainly needs it. Some of our friends have been discouraging us from going since the National Guard was recently called in to New Orleans, but that doesn't frighten us- it really just makes it feel like more of an adventure. The National Association of Librarians had their convention in New Orleans just this week and we figure that if it is safe enough for the librarians than New Orleans is safe enough for us.

Also- I posted a podcast with material I collected while competing in Greece.
Check it out!
If sports are your thing check out the
Goalball Worlds Live! (press #8 to get to the live stream)

What do you get when you put the money of the two richest men in the world together?

The most interesting article I've ever read about Bill Gates was written by Michael Specter and was published in the New Yorker last October. The article is called, What Money Can Buy
The Gate's Foundation funds most of the alternative high schools in both San Francisco and in Oakland- this I knew, but what I didn't know was how much work needs to be done regarding malaria- and how much The Gates Foundation has done to address this issue.
Specter states, "bureaucracies like the W.H.O.—which make decisions by consensus—are often too cumbersome to compete at the speed of a mutating virus. Gates and his wife
need consensus only between themselves."

The October 24 issue of the New Yorker that contains this great article is availible on Audible

Interview with Amanda Podcast!

The newest Podcast is an interview with Amanda, the Seeing Eye Dog. In this podcast we discuss Amanda's retirement.

Tribute to Amanda Podcast

This weeks Podcast is a tribute to my Seeing Eye Dog, Amanda. In October of 2006 I am going into training to get a new Seeing Eye Dog. This pod cast is a tribute to my current guide. Warning!! Mushy dog stuff ahead!!