Masonic journeys that is.

For those that have followed me on Twitter and to a lesser extent both here on this blog know that I am a member of the Masonic Fraternity and tonight was a bittersweet moment for me as I had the opportunity to help one man complete his initiation into the fraternity and at the same time mark the end of my journey through the offices of the Lodge.

Tonight’s degree marked the last item on the calender at St. Mark’s Lodge #44 F.&A.M. in Derry, NH that I scheduled as my tenure as Master of the Lodge ended roughly a month ago – there are others that will now carry the torch of the Lodge to set the direction and plan the events. For me, I’m looking forward to providing guidance and counsel to those that are interested in hearing it.

But where one path stops another starts and for me that’s as a Webelos Den Leader for my sons’ Cub Scout Pack and yes, there will be pictures.

One hundred days already, can you believe it?

Back on 1 January when I started this project is was almost on a whim. I thought it was a neat idea at the time and for the most part I’ve had an interesting time with it, documenting things, sharing some interesting sights but there have also been those times and I struggled to just come up with a photo to post.

An interesting side item has come out of this project, I remember a lot more of what’s happened over this time period. A snapshot here and there isn’t what’s done it, it’s the numerous blog posts that I have posted over that same time period. Items such as the snow storms, the wind storm, the blackout are all stored away digitally and form some memories that will be easy to share with the family in the future.

There were many more events that occurred in the first 100 days of this year that I didn’t get a snapshot of, some I wish I had, others I’m glad I didn’t but I will say that I will continue to carry my iPhone with it’s camera at the ready to see what else I can capture with its lens.

Got a photo you’d like to share? Do you have a 365 day project going? Why not share a link in the notes?

Inside or outside?

I managed a bit of both today. For my day job I traveled to one of my remote offices for meetings dealing with the usual managerial type deliverables (you know, spreadsheets, reports, etc.) but did get a chance to help out on an internal wiki project – it was nice to see HTML code again.

I finished up my day at the dance studio waiting for my daughter as I often do on Wednesdays but instead of the usual sitting inside on the wooden benches I spent a few minutes writing this blog post from my perch at the picnic table.

Definitely a nice change of pace.