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One of the fringe benefits of receiving a large donation from Safeco is that you get to go on-field before a game and receive a "big check" in front of the fans. OK, so the Mariners are the worst team in the big leagues this year...but still nothing beats a thumbs-up (hoofs-up?) from the Mariner Moose.

IslandWood held its summer staff party this week. We hired the "Bubble Man" to entertain the kids.

After the show, he told me that the weather was perfect (humid with cloud cover) for creating some of the biggest bubbles he has ever made!

My commute currently consists of walking on a dirt trail through a second growth forest for 20 minutes, surrounded by barred owls and deer. It's pretty sweet, actually. Have you ever stopped to do the math about how much time is spent commuting? If the average person works for 45 years, and commutes half an hour each way to work...

45 years X 50 weeks per year X 5 days per week X 1 hour commute time = 11,250 hours or 468.75 days of commute time! (And this doesn't include time stuck in airports).

A study of business school graduates tracked the careers of 1,500 MBAs, from 1960 to 1980. From the beginning, the graduates were grouped into two categories:

After twenty years there were 101 millionaires in the group. The clincher: only 1 of the millionaires (one!) came from the "money-now" group, and 100 came from the "passion-now" group. The study’s author Srully Blotnick, concluded that "the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing…Their 'luck' arose from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed."

Source: Making a Life, Making a Living by Mark Albion, p. 17