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My Klout score jumped up beyond 50, very cool. And I am not even trying.It is a bit of a pain b/c forces you to post continuously, though.

Kind of a packed day today: started off with a dentist appointment to repair a fillling, then got caught in the rain on the way back and got a bit wet, then we had the finals of the 10x Factor, a contest to pick a "10x engineer" at work, then we had a conference with Dr. Jim Loehr, very interesting, then we headed to PS450 for a party from work with all the offices, including UK, SF and Boston. After that we headed home to conduct a nanny interview. Pheeew, a lot.

Tomorrow will be another big day, we have the yearly summer outing at Camp Kiwi, upstate NY.

In his speech "Citizenship in a Republic," Theodore Roosevelt famously said: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

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