Water, Water, Everywhere

If you're not from Dixon this picture might not be impressive, but for those of us from the Sauk Valley you realize we are in the midst of significant flooding. Approximately six feet below where I am standing is a retention wall and a sidewalk that local fisherman stand on that is now underwater. Further downriver the water has crept on to about the 20 yard line of Dixon High School's football field.

Many local roads along the Rock River are covered with water and closed to traffic. The river is predicted to crest on Tuesday.

To those of you that live on the river good luck and be safe.

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A Day At The Lake and a Spot On The Podium

All year I have been pointing my training to one event, and that took place this past weekend at Lake Holiday near Somonauk, IL. It was a sprint-distance triathlon; 400 yard swim, 12.1 mile bike and a 3.1 mile run.

The day simply could not have gone better. I felt great throughout the race. I was able to push much harder than I have in the last couple years. All those annoying injuries seemed to take the day off and allow me to compete.

I finished 30th out of about 160 participants. Most surprisingly I won my age group. It's the first time I've made the podium in a tri. My total time was 1:10:48.

Dixon was represented well. Joe Welty won his age-group and his son, Chris, finished 3rd.

You can see pictures from the day by clicking here.

Introducing...

At work today I participated in a very interesting discussion about social networking. In case you didn't know, you're doing just that right now!

One take away from this meeting was the wisdom of securing your own domain name. I have done just that.

I'm pleased to introduce www.davidschreiner.net. If you go to this spot on the web you will be automatically forwarded to my blog. It's a heck of a lot easier than describing the old domain name.

As a reader of this blog you don't have to do anything. Both addresses work and they take you to the same site.

Now If I could only think of something to write that people actually want to read...

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One More Photo From Paul

I ran the last half mile or so with Kaile at the Reagan Run. She improved her time significantly from the prior year.

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If You Are Having A Good Day... Don't Read This

Looking for the worst job in the country? How about Comptroller for the State of Illinois. Above is Dan Hynes, who is setting on a deficit of $5 billion (that's with a "B") dollars.

Feeling good about living in the Land of Lincoln? Read this:

“We are a fiscal poster child for what not to do,” said Ralph Martire of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, a liberal-leaning policy group in Illinois. “We make California look as if it’s run by penurious accountants who sit in rooms trying to put together an honest budget all day.”

Click here for the full story as reported in the New York Times.

Gierhart Photography

Special thanks to Paul Gierhart for his talent in putting this picture together. You're a very talented guy Paul.... Thank you!


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Personal Productivity

I would like to tell you about three software programs I have recently been made aware of: EverNote, DropBox and Documents To Go. I consider the combination of these three to be absolutely game changing in personal productivity. All of these can be found at their respective websites. These utilize the concept of cloud computing, which gives me the ability to access my files from my home computer, work computer, IPad and Droid cellular phone.

I created the three most recent blog posts on my IPad using a combination of the above mentioned programs as well as Dragon Speak, which converts dictation to text that I then copied into another recently downloaded program called BlogPress.

Special thanks to Mr. Demmer for sharing his technical expertise. The things one can do when they have a three day weekend!


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