Blog of Josh Hall

Along the lines of the dirt from the states goal, a cool idea for a product would be a map of the US where each state is a clear case that you can put stuff in.  Maybe it’s not dirt, maybe thimbles, receipts from Hard Rock Cafes, pictures, or just some sort of memento from every state.

My left eye has been twitching for the past 3 days.  I have no idea what the heck is causing it.  It’s like the bottom eyelid has a pulse or something.  Wait…i think it just stopped…let me see if it does it again…Maybe it just comes and goes.  It’s just weird.  I think maybe it’s roach larva growing in my eye.  Wait, it feels like it’s going to twitch again… Any idea what would cause that?

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Who knew???  Outside.in called Pittsburgh the 3rd most bloggiest city after boston and philly.  I’m a little dissapointed that Philadelphia beat us, but what ever.  Pittsburgh is such a booming place for technology, and I attribute that mostly to carnegie mellon, but also UPMC doing so much research.  CMU has brought in so much google development like the bus routes and street view with google maps.

  There are a bunch of pittsburgh bloggers that i’ve just recently discovered, and I thought I was alone for so long.  I’ve been blogging since October 2003…I wonder If I’m the longest blogger in the city?  that’d be cool. 

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

–  Chinese proverb

As we reach the end of 2007, I’m going to cross that line into the cliche "here are the highlights of 2007 and here’s what I’d like to see in 2008" post.  Last year, I called it the year of "new things".  If I were to create a label for this year, I’d consider it a year of traveling.  I went to philly at least twice, crossed the atlantic for the first time to italy with my family and then to london for work, I went to vegas, I went to florida, took trips to cleveland to see rachel, took a trip or two to DC, stopped taking daily drives to work and started walking to work,  and i took a few other road trips as well.  I definitely enjoy traveling, and i definitely consider myself blessed to have the means, time, and friends that make it all possible.

So, I’m graduated with my bachelor degree in professional communicated and information systems from robert morris university…finally.  at least i finished before Keren.  Serah officially made me an uncle by giving birth on the 20th.  and I don’t really have too much to complain about at all.   But, I’ll share with you my new years resolutions and we’ll see how well I do with them.

• Call each sister at least once a month just to talk.
• put at least 100 CDs in the hands of strangers
• Pick up 1 new hobby. (haven’t decided yet…)
• READ ALL THE BOOKS I HAVE BUT HAVE NOT READ
• Compete in an urbanathon or some sort of race.

That’s all i got so far.  Should keep me busy.  I forget if the idea is to make goals specific so you know you reach them or not, or to keep them vague so that you don’t get frustrated and quit…oh well.  I’ll be off to DC this weekend to meet my niece, then back to ring in the new year.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’m an uncle.  Josephine Jean Pesce was born somewhere around 6pm today, December 20th, the same day that my Grandmother Hall was born!  yay!