JR's List: Item #33 - (done) Register and participate in the 2010 Komen Race for the Cure with Cindy (first weekend in May).

May 1st, our dear friend Cindy and I participated in our fifth Komen Race for the cure. We meet at the Denny's close to the Alamodome in downtown San Antonio for breakfast before the race.  Having followed this same routine for the previous three years, we were surprised this year that Denny's was charging $25.00 dollars to park in their lot, even if you were eating there.  Thankfully, we were able to park in a lot a couple of blocks from Denny's for $5.00 each.  We ate and then joined the 30,000 (more or less) participants for the race.

The weather was perfect for walking; cloudy but not to hot or too cool.

This view from the railroad overpass south of the Alamodome looking up Durango as it goes under I37 is always an impressive sight.  It's inspiring to see this sea of white and pink.

This is our friend, Cindy.  Not a great picture, but it"s the only one taken of either one of us this year.

We are about two-thirds of the way through the race at this point.

I must confess.  After getting up at 4:00 a.m., I went home and took a very wonderful, very long nap.

JR's List Item #49: (done) Send promotional emails to school districts for posters.

It took me several days, but it is now done.  Several thousand emails later and a number of blocks, remove my name, and failed deliveries, I have blanketed Texas with information about BRAIN CUES Learning Tools and the BCLT Blog (Positive (Thoughts+Words+Actions) = Positive Life).  I hope I can generate a little business this way.  I will do this again in August.

JR;s List Item #46: (done) Give unwanted professional books to a friend's school.

I took four large bins of books and some additional teaching materials to Pecan Valley Elementary where my friend, Katie teaches.  I know the staff will make good use of the materials and I now have additional space on my shelves.

CEA's update #13

Item #5. Clean out my e-mail inbox and keep the number of e-mails below 20.
Progress: During the first week of this effort I reduced my e-mails from 357 to 98.  Today I'm down to 9.  All of them are read but need action.  I also emptied several of the folders I was keeping and deleted the folders.  I had Pending, Holding, Backlog, and Archive folders among others!  How exactly those four really differed, I'm not sure.  I learned a new term when I was reading a blog I learned about from http://www.happiness-project.com/ :  e-mail bankruptcy.  In e-mail bankruptcy, you eliminate ALL of your e-mails without reading them and start over.  The blog discussion is interesting:  one person admitted to having over 16,000 e-mails.   Here's the post: http://www.mom-101.com/2010/05/drastic-inboxes-call-for-drastic.html