Corey Creed

I leave for a week long trip to NY and Massachusetts this week.

Hey everyone!  I’m starting to use video in my blogs after attending the New Media Expo conference in Vegas last week.

Here’s my first one.  Tell me what you think…

I’ve been working on this personal blog all morning.

I redesigned the home page to be a BIO about me and added a History page as well.

I also made the home page my BIO, not my blog.

The goal is to get people searching on my name to find the information I want them to find.

I started waking up at 6 AM again this week to exercise and get to work early. 

Last week I tried a different approach.  I stayed up until 2:30 AM and 3:30 AM two nights to get things done.  I got a lot of reading and learning done.  But it’s hard to get to work on time.

Exercising is not that hard.  It’s all in my head.  If I convince myself that I want to do it, I do it.

Although this is my personal blog, I’m really excited about the new design of my business blog.  You can check out the home page here or read my comments on the new design here.

So last night we got about 2 inches of snow up here around Lake Norman.  When I got up there was about that much on the rooftops and grass.  It was raining at the time, so the roads were just a little slushy.

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WARNING:  This post is a little gross.

Saturday I had a friend (Ian Ragusa) over for the afternoon and we did a few things around the house.  Sandy made us dinner – beef stroganoff and pumpkin pie.  After dinner, Sandy and I watched the football game and went to bed.

I woke up Sunday morning at 3:30 AM with terrible stomach pains and threw up several times.  The same thing happened at 5:00 and 6:30 AM.  It happened a couple more times after that. 

I don’t mean to be gross, but it was the sickest I have been in probably 20 years.  As the day went by, I spent most of it in bed.  About noontime I drank a half glass of water.  In the afternoon, I had a half piece of toast.  In the early evening I had about 4 saltine crackers.  At about 8 PM I had a half bowl of soup.

Here’s the crazy part.  I wake up today and I’m fine.  (My stomach muscles hurt for obvious reasons, but I ate a normal breakfast.)  I ate breakfast and am at work now.  Also, my wife never got sick at all. 

I think I’ll call Ian to see if he got sick.  Strange!

Last week Sandy and I went to the game between the Charlotte Bobcats and the Boston Celtics.  In case you have not heard, Boston is basically dominating all sports this year (Patriots, Red Sox, and now the Celtics).

The really amazing part of this is the Celtics part.  The Boston Celtics have not really been all that good since I was a teenager and Larry Bird and company were absolutely amazing.  So it’s a real throw back for me to see the Celtics actually have a good team this year for the first time in a long time.

At any rate, I was dying to see this new and improved Celtics team.  So I bought tickets over a month in advance to this one of only two games that they are playing here in Charlotte.  Sandy and I went to the game last Saturday. 

As most people know by now, there are quite a few New Englanders in the Charlotte area, especially up here in the Lake Norman region.  So it was no surprise that there were several green shirts throughout the auditorium.  My wife had an all green sweater on and I had my Boston Bruins sweatshirt.  (The only Boston team that still needs support.)

The Bobcats were actually winning through most of the game.   With seconds left in the game, the Bobcats were ahead by 2 points and had the ball.  They just had to inbound it and hold on to it.  Sandy and I were standing, but expected to see our beloved Celtics lose. 

The fans around us were screaming and yelling.  We stood quietly and disappointed.

You can see what happened next in the video below.

Needless to say, I pretty much lost my mind.  The entire auditorium fell somewhat quiet, and every “green-shirted” audience member was jumping and screaming.  I was the only one in my section screaming and yelling except for four guys in New England Patriots sweatshirts in my same row.  I had to practically climb over two big Bobcat fans to give them high fives.

Sandy and I watched for a minute or so and then went out to the hallway to find our way home.  There, several fans with Boston Red Sox hats and green shirts on were all slapping high five. 

Everyone else looked so dejected.

Wow!  What a game!

Go Celtics!!

(and Pats!)

I think I’ll go buy tickets for the next time the Celtics come to town on Saturday, April 5. 

Now that we are half way through the season, the Pats have a bye week and are not playing.

Sunday football without the Patriots is like when you are a little kid and can’t play outside because you are too sick. Sure, you know everyone else is outside having fun, but you don’t even care.

I didn’t watch any games today until I just noticed that the Colts are losing at half-time. Now this is something that could be enjoyable. Either Manning has to have a big come-back or they are going to lose. Either way should be enjoyable to watch.

Corey

Today is Friday and once again I woke up at 4:15 AM PST (7:15 back home). The difference is that this time I was able to fall back asleep for one hour. I’m trying to stay going to bed early and waking up early so that I don’t have too bad of jet lag when I get back.

Yesterday was very enjoyable and interesting. It’s been worth the trip so far.

If you want to see my notes on the conference, see my other Internet Marketing Blog.