Sat Night

We did our annual gingerbread house decorating today. It’s a fun tradition that the kids really enjoy. Good excuse to buy lots of junk at Wegmans.

I’m no closer to beginning the development of my passion. I believe at the moment I’m overwhelmed by the whole thing. My mind has raced ahead and is flooded with ideas. I need to get control and go step by step and move forward. I’m very eager to get something running asap.

Someone I work with was killed in the intersection outside the building 2 days ago. I wasn’t really friends with her, but we always said hi and she always seemed pleasant enough. I believe she had a husband and at least 1 child. Hard to imagine something like that happening any time, let alone the week before Christmas. I made doubly sure to tell each of the kids I loved them when I put them to bed tonight.

One week till Christmas

Christmas is 1 week away – hard to believe. I have spent considerable time looking into my other passions – fitness and drumming, to see if there is something in there that I can latch on to. Nothing yet, but the ideas are churning.

I’m thinking about changing my theme on tumblr. I’m not sure I like this one – it’s a little spartan.

Hopefully over the weekend I’ll get to try a video blog. I’m learning a lot every day.

Random thoughts

I’m blogging from my Ipod touch. Not the ideal way to do this, but it’s easier than I thought.

I’m still pondering my passion. The drumming and fitness/wellness are obvious. Late last night I had the strange thought that I might like to do a vacuum blog – like the kind you use to clean your floors. I don’t know why, but I love to vacuum. It runs in the family. I’ve been thinking all day that it would be fun to blog about vacuums. Most review sites aren’t very helpful. It sounds corny, but to me it sounds fun. But I’m not ready to jump on that one yet.

On a lighter note, it’s finally snowing. We have a few inches already with a few more expected overnight. It would be great to have a white Christmas next week.

Before the end of the week I plan to try a video blog. Never done it, not sure what I’m doing, but I won’t learn until I try.

Blog the 2nd

My second blog. I promised myself I’d do one at least once every day, no matter what, just to get in the habit. I spent my (limited) free time today pondering my passions and how to apply them to the emerging online community.

In broad terms, I am passionate about technology, fitness, and drumming. I can’t take on all 3 at once, but all three get me fired up. I have to pick a place to start and resist my urge to tackle everything all at once. At the moment I’m leaning towards something fitness/wellness related. For a while I was a personal trainer and I witnessed first hand how even small changes can have a tremendous effect on people’s lives. I truly believe people have nothing unless they have their health. I’ll have to keep thinking about that one.

With Christmas a little over a week away, the kids are jumping off the walls already. Tonight it started snowing – those big beautiful, fluffy flakes. Maybe we’ll have a white Christmas after all.

Pete’s First Blog

They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, so I imagine the journey onto the internet begins (for me) with one blog. This is it.

Recently I purchased Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Crush It. I was up until 3am reading it! I was amazed by his message about building a brand and doing something about which you are passionate. I am inspired to follow his advice and find my passion and act on it.

I just registered my domain name, peterfountain.com, although I do not have a host yet. I was surprised to find it available as there is a famous jazz musician named Pete Fountain. Apparently he only wanted petefountain.com and was nice enough to leave peterfountain.com for me. Thanks Pete!

I am still sorting out my passion and how I will begin to build my brand online. I have many ideas swimming around in my head and I am working hard to sort them out. Registering my domain name and starting this blog are my first steps. I plan to add some video blogs and other tidbits. My hope is to chronicle my journey so that my family and friends will have a meaningful record to reflect on someday. How cool would it be for my great grandkids (or their kids) to be able to follow my blogs and and tweets and facebook posts and many other yet to be invented technologies? They will be able to watch this part of my life unfold at the click of a mouse, or the touch of a screen. How very different than the grainy black and white photo’s I look at now that chronicle my grandparent’s years.

So off I go.