Getting to know you

It’s on again.

The next Perth Weblogger Meetup is scheduled for tomorrow night at the Brass Monkey Pub in Northbridge.

I missed last month’s Meetup but I made it to my first one back in April. It’s great to catch up with a bunch of local bloggers in the flesh rather than just online.

I’ve made a commitment to be there tomorrow night so unless something urgent comes up in the mean time I’ll be there from 7:00 p.m. I can’t really afford too many late nights so I might not stay the whole time but I’m sure I’ll get some good conversation in before I head home.

How about you? If you’re a blogger in the Perth area let me encourage you to join us for an hour or two. Just click here to get all the details.

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Take it easy

We all love it when we can save time and simplify tasks. Hopefully I can simplify the way you read my blog.

Did you know that you can read The Journey via email each day through FeedBlitz? Instead of having to visit my blog each day, it can visit you. Just click here, enter your email address, and you’ll never miss a post. You’ll get one email a day with anything I’ve posted on that day. You can unsubscribe at any time so why not give it a go?

There’s also a button at the top of the left hand sidebar, and on the bottom of each of my posts which makes subscribing easy if you read blogs through Bloglines, Google Reader, Yahoo, NewsGator, MSN or a number of other services. If you haven’t heard of RSS, Atom or site feeds before you can check out this article at Wikipedia for more information. Basically feeds make it a lot easier to read blogs and other information sources.

Can I encourage you to subscribe to The Journey one way or another? I’d love you to be part of the community that is continuing to grow here and subscribing helps you stay in touch with every post.

Whichever way you choose to read my blog let me say thank you for doing so. I truly appreciate the fact that you take the time to read my random thoughts and participate in the conversation through your comments.

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Band of gold

My right wrist feels naked.

Almost three years ago my daughter, Emily, returned from a holiday in England and France and presented me with a yellow silicon band. She had bought it on the final day of the 2004 Tour de France, the day that Lance Armstrong took his record breaking sixth win in the event. He went on to win the following year making it seven in a row before retiring from the sport of cycling.

I’ve worn that wrist band pretty much ever since.

The band was a fund raising initiative and was really the first of its kind. These days you can get silicon wrist bands for just about every cause but back then it was a new phenomenon, raising money for cancer research through the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

In the early days of the band they were a little harder to get hold of and so they were fetching considerable prices on eBay.

I wore the band to remind me of Lance’s achievements on the bike, of my wonderful daughter who gave me the band, and of those I know who have battled cancer of various kinds.

Yesterday morning as I was getting ready to ride to work the band snapped. It’s now sitting in my top desk drawer at home.

I have a pale stripe across my wrist where the band used to sit while I was cycling. Within a couple of weeks the sun will erase that reminder.

It would have only cost a few cents to produce. It only cost one euro to buy, but it has meant a lot more than that over the years. The band may be gone but I can still think about Lance Armstrong’s amazing career, I’m constantly thinking about Emily and my mind is taken up a lot of the time right now thinking about my sister-in-law who is just beginning her fight against lung cancer. There’s still plenty of reminders to do as the band used to say and Live Strong.

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