Anne got her
assignment
for a school today at her job fair!  That means she has a job in the
Fall.  I also have a job interview this Wednesday for a position. 
Woohoo!  I drove Anne down for the job fair and there are quite a few
decent apartments in the area close to her school that are of reasonable price. 
Tomorrow I am driving her over to the school so she can fill out paperwork and
then we are heading out for some fun with her group of fellows.  Perhaps we
will also look around the area and make note of areas we would like to live. 
My friend Eric Lorson is having a big get
together at his house on Sunday and we are headed out there for a little R&R as
well.  My parents leave for Eastern Europe on Friday so we have the house
to ourselves!  Uh Oh!  Things with Digital Schools are moving along
and it is now a full fledged non-profit.  Grant proposal writing to get
funding is on its way.  Hope everyone is doing well.  Talk to you all
soon.

 

 

Movies. Yes movies. We saw the

Pirates of the Caribbean this
weekend at the Jefferson Valley Mall with my parents.  I have to say it was
very good.  All four of us were impressed with the animation and although
the story was somewhat predictable in eventual outcome the plot was well thought
out.  Unlike some of my ramblings on this site :).  This past weekend
Anne got to relax.  She is done with her major course work for now and we
worked a little on the
digital schools site
which is really coming together. 
It looks like we may be able to procure a free server and some resources after
all.  We are working on some grants next and we will see where all of that
leads.  I am sending out resumes to companies here in the
New York
area as the jobs become available.  This morning my Dad and I spent some
time at the Metro North Train Station at Goldens Bridge and then went off to the
Shenorock (Somers),
Post office and garnered a good amount of signatures for his campaign and the
independent ballot.

This coming Wednesday Anne has a job
fair and my friend
Eric
and I will be in the city drumming up
business for our business venture.  As well Anne graduates from her summer
program for the
New York City Teaching Fellows
this Friday and I will be attending. 
After that she has two weeks of vacation.  We will have the house to
ourselves while they are away gallivanting around Eastern Europe. 

Today is very hot in New York. 
Wet and looking to head up to 90 plus degrees so we are all trying to stay cool. 
I have a couple of errands to run so the best way to reach me is on my cell (no
I'm not putting the number on the site).  I have to hit the bank, Trader
Joes and the Food Store as well as get a workout in before Anne gets home. 
I try to do all my job search stuff, business, and things in the morning. That
makes it easy to be somewhere air conditioned by afternoon.  Hope all is
well with everyone.

Hi everyone.  Here are some

pictures sent to me by my father in law from the Highland Games in
Enumclaw Washington.  He is of course the dashing young gentleman in the
front row with the distinguished looking grey hair.  Anne finishes her
coursework for the summer today at 1PM and should be going out with her fellows
in the city after that.  Rain Rain Raining.  It has been warm raining
and muggy here in New York for the last couple of days, yet we are promised a
great weekend.  My parents are getting things together for the big trip to
Eastern Europe and my brother is leaving this Sunday after being home for the
last two weeks.  He will be off in Maryland for training for the next 11
weeks.  He has not had much luck on the house hunting front since he is
looking in the very bottom of the range 350,000 in New York!  I have been
sending e-mails to all to let everyone know what we are up to but the best way
to reach us is still e-mail, and keeping up with us through the blog.

My ankle twist from this past Friday looks like it is
healing and I am back to the gym today.  I am still keeping off the 20lbs I
lost on the diet and all is good on that front.  Gus is well but he still
misses all of his friends from Klahanie.  This is especially true of Roxy
our downstairs neighbors dog--Ned and Kelsey.  Ok well I am off to the post
office, campaigning, job searching and the like.  Drop us all a line with
links and such.  Miss everyone.

Ok so now I am doing four things. I got the EIN number for digitalschools.org and the domain name will be transfered once the site is complete. The EIN number is for non-profit status. The web site can be looked at while it is being built at http://drewpecunia.netfirms.com. Eric Lorson and I are moving along on our business plans and I have delivered my HIPPA analysis for Andy Wagner and Eric. I am starting to get calls from companies for a regular job but the economy here is only slightly better than the one in Washington.


The new driveway is in at my parents house.

Interesting I spoke with Elena Pecunia a relative from France who I met on line while doing family hisytory research. We are trying to set up a pow wow online since she speaks French and I speak English. Anne speaks French so she can be the go between althouh she doesn't know it yet.

The house is getting clean clean clean and my mother is getting a little crazy with it before my dads big party and fundraising event this Sunday. For those of you who don't know he is running for supervisor--which is like mayor of Somers. The Wine and Cheese PArty is this Sunday. My brother is still here and will be through next week. He has been taking gus out for 3 mile runs and gus is now warming up to him.

The diet is continuing and I am down 20lb and much fat now. Fitting into size 34 pants now for the first tome in years :). I have been making it to the gym almost every day and feel much better.

Anne is working very hard and just received her first two grades from Fordham University. A's of course! She is doing well and is attending a teacher placement fair for the fall on wednesday. She is taking the all important Social Studies CST for the State of New York on Saturday and has been studying. She is still up at 5pm and to the train and back at 7:30PM from the city. After that she is doing homework until about 12PM. UFFFF!

I got some great shirts in the mail from Anne's mmom and that was a really nice surprise. Thanks! Her Mom and Dad are very very nice.


Anyway it looks like my mom would like a little more help cleaning and getting ready for the big event and I have some job prospects to get back to now. Ta Ta