Weather report: we got a whole bunch of snow at the beginning of March.  Go figure...

Los Wholigans spring soccer season starts in a week or so. 

And I'm on FACEBOOK now where I actually do post an update now and then.

USA 2 goals to nada for Mexico in the opening match of the final CONCACAF qualifying round.  Looked cold in Columbus, glad I was watching on teevee...

UPDATE

We are recruiting for two woman for our Fall roster - please contact me at rstanner AT gmail DOT com if you're interesting in joining our team.  

 

 

 

Our current uniforms look like this.

We also have a FACEBOOK group at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36869896545

Our NVASA website page is at:

http://www.nvasa.org/teams/14384717/9528842-14384798/TEAM.html

I really don't post much I guess!

I decided to move the various websites I support for myself, family, friends and organization all over to Drupal.  More efficient for me to maintain one CMS and at this point I can do pretty much anything with Drupal I was doing with Wordpress.  I finally got to moving this site to Drupal, the new host (Media Temple) and trying out a new theme ("look") for it.

I continue to work in the International Bureau of the FCC and I am looking forward to the challenges of 2009.  

I kept up the biking to work pretty well through November, but lost momentum in December and I need to start it up again!  I suppose that's my most immediate New Year's resolution to attend to.

It occurred to me getting back from a summer vacation in Duck, NC this summer that I could ensure a good workout everyday if I could bike to work.  I'm not really sure why I've never been interested in trying this before but I'm glad I had a moment of idea meet personal motivation to do it.  It took me awhile to get prepared (fix bike! get gear, join gym at work, etc, etc) but after a week or so of errands I had everything in place this weekend.

So today was the first day of commuting to work via the bike and I think it went really well.   It's a very nice ride (almost all on a dedicated bike path) with a long stretch along the Potomac River.

One more theme change after upgrading to WordPress 2.5.  I'm quite impressed with this version of WordPress; I've been using this software for sometime now (I can't recall when I switched from MT but it must have been back in 2002?) and this is just about as intuitive as I can imagine blogging code to be. That picture up there in the Author note with me in front of the Sphinx isn't photoshopped! I was in Egypt back in 2005.

Also recently -- I made it to the first day (but not the second) of David Isen's F2C conference in Silver Spring, Maryland.  Isen manages to bring in a very diverse crowd from outside "the beltway" and although it wasn't quite as good as the F2C in 2006, it was still a day well spent.

The sporadic updates continue. It's already March of 2008 so maybe a good time to update this site again.

• I continue to work in the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (I moved there in 2006). Since last fall (2007) I have been working as the Deputy Division Chief in the Strategic Analysis and Negotiations Division ("SAND" for short) of the Bureau.
• I thought it was time to give this site a face-lift (I had to upgrade the software to the latest version of WordPress anyhow). This theme is a bit dark but I like the cityscape up top. If you hate it, let me know.
• I've been serving as the Secretary of the local neighborhood civic association. It's a nice way to meet more of our neighbors and better understand the local issues. I've also been building a website for us -- you can visit the beta version here (probably won't spread the word widely about it until May of this year). It runs on the Drupal CMS which I actually know much more about then Wordpress. Drupal does a lot of things really well but it probably has a bit of a steeper learning curve then Wordpress.

My gmail account is "rstanner" where you can always reach me. My skype account is "rstanner" although I'm not using it much these days.

I finally got around to reading the alumni magazine from my undergraduate university and it had an article on Jamba Juice - two of its three founders were business school majors at Cal Poly. I don't remember whether I went to the original "Juice Club" they started in San Luis Obispo or not but it was open when I was attending school there. It's hard to believe a chain so large started off in relatively sleepy ol' SLO.

I was a sports reporter and disc jockey at KCPR 91.3 during my years in college. Great fun and I still have fond memories of the whole experience. Apparently they've built new studios for KCPR (in the same building on campus thought) and brought in Weird Al Yankovich to christen the new studios. Weird Al went to the same college I did and also worked at KCPR. He may actually be the school's most famous alumni, but even if he isn't he's certainly the most famous alumni of the radio station. Click read more for a local newscast's report on the ceremony: