My employer, Shared Marketing Services, Inc., sponsored a group of us in the 2004 Race Judicata, a co-ed/team 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) walk/run competition, put on by the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation. All that really means is that they paid our registration fee for us, there was a monetary incentive for us to place in the top 2 (which we didn't :), and the company prez, Rick, showed up to cheer for us! Young's cousin Charlie took a few pictures, but not many. There may be a couple more added later. Fun time! Unfortunate that a couple of the girls we had been training with couldn't run with us - Luann had just switched jobs, and Lisa's foot was acting up - but the group that did run had an awesome time - though painful, of course! :)
Yesterday I came across a very cool free resource... so you know how designers can find online libraries of fonts as well as high quality, high resolution graphics and photographs? These are usually pay sites. Well check out stock.xchng . Wowsers. Don't be scared off by the required registration... it's all free! Looks like I won't be needing to take a digital camera to any of the tourist traps that I plan on visiting in my lifetime, I can just mooch better pics of said locations from this site! Makes for excellent browsing for awesome desktop background images. It's like Webshots on steroids. It's like discovering Google Maps after having just used MapQuest . (ps- Google Local now offers that map functionality fully integrated ..) Stumbling across that site set my mind rolling on free stuff. I just realized how my professional focus on open source software has been an extension of an interest in free stuff that I had back in high school . (for t