cgmpowers's Blog

Every year this catches me by surprise and I miss this event entirely!! However, NOT this year!

Friday night, tonight, is the Forest Park Balloon Glow from 8pm til I think 10pm? Tomorrow, Saturday, is the race. I don't know the time but hear one should get there EARLY in the morning to watch them inflate before the launch.

I've never gone downtown and usually don't hear about it until AFTER. Somehow, by dumb luck, I was reminded by a website that had a small blurb about it. It really needs to be advertised more!!

Christopher Powers

I've been using blogs off and on for years, infact I'm one of the first people who used blogs and almost got fired from my job because if it.

This was about 5 years ago, before people knew what blogs were--back when Blogger.Com was created. I worked for a national department store at the time. I wrote in my blog periodically complaining about the weeks events (sometimes about work, albeit very general terms and never namming company or individual names), I made the cardinal mistake of writing a blog on a company computer.. Within a couple of weeks my blog was one of the most read at work--people clammering to figure out whose who on who I complained about.

Well, the home office didn't take lightly too it and threatened to fire me. I refused to remove the blog, although I did temporarily, but never ever did I disclose who I worked for or who I wrote about. When the blog reopened all "work related" type blogs were 'removed'.

Ironically years later, if you do an exhaustive "archives.org" search you can still find an occasional blog entry from that time.

I was transfered to another department temporarily and my life was made a little uncomfortable, mainly by the people who were embarrased that I may have written about them. I later just left the job for other/greener pastures.

Most found it humorous, as I did, that so much fuss was made of a blog. This was in the days, again, before people even knew about blogs.

Now they're everywhere.