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I spent last weekend with the Timex Multisport Team at the Timex Performance Center, headquarters of the NY Giants in the Meadowlands. I was the proverbial fly on the wall observing the various clinics, events and presentations. Met some great people/athletes – they have inspired me to work through my own physical obstacles to become more physically fit. Great stuff!

Read about it at: http://teamtimex.timexblogs.com/author/david-griffith/

Going to California... for a week

Next week, my daughter's synchro skating team, the Skyliners, is competing in the USFSA's 2011 Synchronized Skating Championships in Ontario, CA, so for the very first time for all of my family we get to visit West Coast. They recently won gold in the Eastern Regional Championship at Lake Placid, NY.

It should be noted that my wife and I are very proud of our daughter's accomplishments in skating, we have sacrificed a lot to give her this amazing opportunity and to develop her talents. Before she was six, I would have never imagined that the world of figure skating would be a part of our collective future. I have found it is a tight-knit community that stretches across the country and into other parts of the world – people involved in the sport at all levels seem to know each other or have friends in common. Just on my own I have met a handful of Olympic skaters from Team USA, a few have even coached our daughter.

As for California, I am really wondering what to expect in the LA area – I have all sorts of preconceptions from movies, TV, books and word of mouth. It will be an interesting personal experience to see how much of Los Angeles lives up to the notoriety. We will be spending a lot of time checking out the city and some of its infamous sites. My CT/NYC-area upbringing has instilled a certain level of disdain for anything West Coast, but I will approach this with an open mind. I'm always up for new adventures, as much as I hate preparing to travel.

More to come from the West Coast... the good, bad and mundane.

Spend Your Savings Day

I proclaim Friday, November 26, the day after Thanksgiving, as "Spend Your Savings/Sanity Day". That's right – go broke buying those must have gifts. Make sure you get into a few fist fights and stampedes in the early morning hours. Make sure you are broke enough (and homeless enough with all those gifts in a grocery store cart) to qualify for free meals at those pleasurable soup kitchens this holiday season. Cooking at home means a can of beans over a burning garbage can in a back alley paired with rain water collected in an old Starbucks cup.


You see, its not about what you have, it's what you don't have. It's what your neighbors have. Your friends, co-workers, family... you need bigger, better, faster, stronger and more! Don't be afraid to spend your kids' college savings on that brand new entertainment system promising an at home 3D experience. Imagine that, you need a TV to experience 3D, I guess the real world isn't 3D-enough anymore.


So join me this Friday, and go broke countering the counterculture of buying nothing. Why? Why not. Satisfy your needs and greeds, feed your inner children. Live for the moment, because tomorrow might just be another bland day at the grocery store shopping for dinner. Let the excitement of back alley living drive you. SPEND SPEND SPEND! 


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Sundial made the CT Post "Best and Rest"

Best and the rest of the past week - October 28, 2010

Sundial to track progress at Shakespeare Theatre

Sundial to track progress at Shakespeare Theatre

More sundial news – Connecticut Post

Timex unveils new sundial on Shakespeare theater

Sundial to track progress at Shakespeare Theatre

Step in the right direction.

Sundial to track progress at Shakespeare Theatre