My son painted a beautiful portrait of a penguin this afternoon. This is his third from his series on penguins. His last, titled “Bob”, sold for $90 at an auction last year. The gentleman who bought it gave it back to Jakob, presenting it to him gallantly as Jakob burst into tears when he found out his masterpiece was going to be sold.

This recent penguin painting is titled “Ted” which, ironically, is the name of Chrissy’s brother who is flying here from California to be here for the fundraiser on Friday. Hopefully the painting, Ted, will ignite a flurry of bidding activity as it did last year. Jake has requested a copy of it before it’s sold this year.

I had yoga today at the Yoga Room which was nice.

I discovered one of the coolest sites of one of the most genius people, in my opinion, in the world. Matthew Mullenweg is the creator of Wordpress which is the blogging software which I used for this site and for my clients. His website is: http://ma.tt/ HOW COOL IS THAT?? (Mark, how do I get one of those domain names??

To get an idea of the sheer girth of what this guy has created check out this story: WordPress Stands for Open Source, Morals, Democracy - 2008-11-13

And he barely looks like he’s 20 years old. (thanks for the comment Matt!)

My kids tried butter chicken tonight which reminds me of my friend Louise MacDonald who introduced me to it. Her and I are meeting tomorrow as I’m fortunate to have her as a client too. And a mentor. www.DrivePEI.com She’s an authority on driver safety having owned a driver training school for 28 years.

I signed on a new client tonight, guilt-ing him into it by saying “it’s the cool thing to do”. Kidding. New projects are fun.

My blog post on Barack Obama’s speech was the highest traffic to my site thus far, in six months which is exciting.

I had an energy efficiency audit done on my house yesterday which was pretty cool. The guy, Rick from Sustainable Housing, was awesome and most helpful. I’m looking forward to the report and finding out how I can get this 150 year old house to NOT go through $500 worth of oil a month.

“If you live it up you won’t live it down.” Hold On by Tom Waitts