Author Archives: Tony Caselli

OH THE HORROR!

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Sooooo my iMac is in the shop. My beautiful G5 just didn’t want to power up yesterday morning. I took it in, the guy said it’s probably the power supply unit, or something, inside the machine. SO, it’ll be about a week before I get that back. *sigh*

Postings will be a bit sporadic until then! Sorry!

In other news, the family got back from their vacation, and it’s nice to have them back! Man, the house is too quiet when they’re all gone!

Some Updates, and An Amazing Thing.

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Been a little busy lately, not much posting, sorry. A handful of updates:

The Williamston Theatre Project will be doing a reading of THE NERD on August 20th. It’s a little different than the readings we’ve done so far, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the folks react. These readings have been very useful as we try and plan our first season or two!

Speaking of WTP, had a great meeting today with a couple of our big supporters and their friend Marti, who’s a development whiz. (If you saw this article in the Lansing State Journal then you’ll know they just announced the completion of a $1.2 Billion fundraising campaign. Yes, Billion with a B. She helped make that happen!) SO, she spent the morning chatting with us about our Project, and we’re looking forward to many more conversations!

In other news, an amazing thing happened today. I was coming home from my morning meeting, (to grab a few things and head out again) and pulled into the driveway. After I turned off the car, and the blaring radio stopped, I was hearing this LOUD cacophony of sound. I got out of the car, and looked around, listened, and was amazed: You know how you see giant flocks of birds, sometimes, all covering a field like a giant, acre-sized inkblot on the ground? Well, one of those inkblots had chosen to land in many (if not all) of the 40 or so trees in our yard. The sound was amazing! (I actually said “Whoa!” out-loud, and I could barely hear my own voice, the chattering was so loud!) Wandering the yard, looking at what appeared to be several hundred birds in our trees, I started wondering “What could they all be saying?!” I mean, were there a couple hundred individual conversations going on, like the drone of a crowd at the ballgame? Were they all just vying for attention, wanting to get their opinion heard in some avian argument? After listening for a few minutes, I ran into the house to grab what I needed, and headed out to Ann Arbor (for my meeting with Ernie Zack, my financial guy who handles my retirement accounts, the kids Education IRA’s, that stuff.) When I started the car to leave, I left the radio off, and drove away slowly, underscored by the temporary tenants of our yard, thinking what an amazing world it is!

And that’s a quick update. From all of us here at tony101, have a great day!

iTunes!!

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Well Hooray! After several different atttempts at solving it, I’ve been able to burn a music CD on iTunes!

The amazingly simple, amazingly annoying problem? The CD’s I was using were of the “Too Cheap” variety.

The iMac G5 does’nt respond well to CompUsa recordable CD’s. Switching to Memorex Music CD-R’s worked wonderfully.

Thanks to all of you who commented, emailed or called!

A word worth considering…

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INTEGRITY

in·teg·ri·ty
n.
1: Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
2: Moral soundness

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“When we are really honest with ourselves
we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us.
So it is how we use our lives
that determines the kind of men we are.”
-Cesar Chavez