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As you know by now, I have a soft spot for organizations that help children with cancer. I am a supporter of the Ronald McDonald House, and with your help earlier this year, my wife and I raised just shy of $8,000 – $3,000 more than our goal.

I just learned that Craig Rowe of WhyPark is raising money for Make A Wish of Greater Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. On August 7th, 2011, Craig will be participating in the Cleveland Triathlon, where he will swim half a mile, bike 16 miles, and run 3.1 miles. I only wish I was closer so I could watch this actually happen.

Craig is looking to raise $6,000 for Make A Wish, which is the average cost of making one child’s wish come true. If it’s been a good year for you so far, I hope you will consider making a donation to this worthy cause. Craig’s a good dude and the organization he’s raising funds for does great things.

I’ll even personally match up to $500 in donations that you make to him today. Just drop a note and let me know you donated. Like when I was raising funds for Ronald McDonald House, every single donation counts and helps.

I am sorry for those of you who have been spending your money like there’s no tomorrow, thinking that today would be judgment day and the rapture would be coming. Thankfully, that didn’t seem to happen… at least I don’t think it happened.

Unfortunately for the people who have been preaching that judgment day would be today (May 21, 2011), it appears that the organization’s website is down for the count. According to the DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com website, it appears that FamilyRadio.com is down.

I don’t know if it’s down because its servers were hit with too much traffic, or perhaps it really was judgment day for the website. Whatever the case may be, the site doesn’t seem to be loading right now.

I guess the nice thing about having a blog, is that I can share some personal news.  Yesterday afternoon, my wife completed her five year graduate school program and was awarded her doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.). She will now be known as Dr. Silver, so we are a Mr. and Dr. family – or is that Dr. and Mr.?

Once Karen finishes her year-long post-doctoral fellowship beginning in August, she will likely begin her own practice. I know a lot of people in this business can surely some psychological help, so just drop me a note if I should pencil you in for an appointment.

Karen will certainly make good use of KarenSilver.com, which was given to her as a wedding present from Rick Latona and his team after acquiring it from a company of the same name.

Congrats to Karen for her hard work!

It’s not often that I’m in New England for Patriots Day, but it’s a lot of fun. Not only is it a holiday in Massachusetts (friends have the day off from work), but the Red Sox play an 11:30am matinee, and of course, the Boston Marathon is run.

I read that Shane Cultra is running in the Boston Marathon today, and Karen and I are going to  Wellesley, Massachusetts (the half way point) to cheer him on.

Karen ran the New York City marathon last November, and I know how much of a personal challenge it is to run a marathon. I can’t even run 5 miles right now without a day off in between miles 4 and 5. Hope he makes his goal!

My blog hit 1,000,000 visits this evening, as I projected in a post this morning.  Thanks to all for the good wishes. Here are some stats for the one millionth visitor to my blog:

IP Location: Seattle, Washington

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