One of the biggest challenges with a wedding is to have everything come together perfectly for your special day.  With months of planning completed, it would be sad to miss something truly important that would ruin your day, right?

Well that is exactly what happened to our marriage ceremony when we forgot about the wedding favors.  We had previously discussed with our Mackay marriage celebrant that we wanted to give each of our guest seashell key chains and we were able to find a company that sold them.  The catch was that we needed to order in advance – in fact, it needed to be done a couple of months in advance.

It wasn’t until we arrived at our wedding location that we realized that we had completely forgot about them – which was a terrible disappointment to us.  We felt horrible that we didn’t give our guests anything to remember our special day – sadly our perfect wedding didn’t turn out perfect at all.

There are not many things that I expect in life, but there are two things that I do expect: fair treatment and good coffee.

I guess for me, I believe that we should all be treated as equals in all aspects of life, no matter what or who we are.  Whether rich or poor, we should all have the same rights and access to the same opportunities, and I try to live my beliefs wherever I go.

As for the coffee, I would love the opportunity for everyone to have an exceptionally good cup of coffee should they desire it and have access to the best coffee makers on the market.  Though I know that it isn’t a reality yet, I know how life changing a good coffee can be.

So, I may have to start out small buy buying the best coffee maker and best coffee pot and give it to someone else - maybe I will start something that just might change the world…

I would consider myself an avid movie watcher and I typically go to the movies at least a couple of times each week.  I typically go to an older theater to watch them as I have been going there since I was a child.

What I like the most about the movie theater is that they use custom aisle runners in each theater that capture a piece of the good old days.  You can find historical movie titles, awards, and they even have one custom aisle runner that displays the movie admission price based on the year.

The decor doesn’t stop at the aisle runner either.  They have the theater done up like it was many years ago and it is one of the coolest places to go on a Saturday night.  Speaking of that, maybe that is what I should do this Saturday - what a great idea.

One of my favorite things about computers is that they usually make life easier.  Sure, from time to time they don’t work properly, but with the multitude of software on the market, most people are sure to find that computers can help with our daily lives.

Take for example the many software websites that you can find online.  The vast majority of them sell software packages that help with such things as staying organized, tabulating your golf scores, and even storing all the recipes that you might ever need instead of buying a multitude of cookbooks.

Irrespective of your age, chances are that there is software out there that you would find useful.  Even my grandfather uses some coin collection software to keep track of his coins and he is almost ninety years old!

When I was starting my own business, selling office furniture, I found out about karastan rugs. When I got to see them, I absolutely fell in love with them and I knew I wanted one for my own office. I thought they would be great to show to my clients.

The karastan rug turned out to be as big of a hit as I thought that they would. My customers absolutely loved the professional look they gave their offices and I loved that I had found something nice to show to them.

I have been doing this for a few years now and I can honestly say that almost every office that I have decorated has karastan in it. I have even put quite a bit into my home and I am still very much in love with the product.

I love what I do and the job is just that much easier when I have great quality products to work with.

My father and I have been avid golfers for as long as I can remember, and we go out twice per month during the summer.  It has not only been a good opportunity for us to bond, but it gets us out of the house so our wives can talk without us around.

But golfing sure isn’t cheap.  To this day, I don’t think that I have paid for a round of golf as my father pretty much pays each time.  That makes me feel a bit like a freeloader, but I thought that I could maybe change that.

I had received an email a couple of days before we were going about a website that offered coupons on just about everything: even golf coupons.  I did a bit of searching on the site and found some coupons that I could use in town and even installed the IE coupon toolbar so that it would be easier to find coupons in the future.

So, I will surprise my father this weekend and pay for our round of golf.  I bet he will be proud that his boy is finally a man.

I love the fact that you can find just about anything online, but the one thing that I hate is when I get frustrated because I can’t find what I am looking for.  Though this doesn’t happen very often, it happens nonetheless, and I get a little rattled because of it.

This is exactly what happened to me when I woke up this morning.  You see, I was looking for a roofing company that could fix the leak in my roof that I just noticed because it rained.  Now, you would think that it would be an easy thing to find, but I had problems.

My search turned up many roofing Rhode Island companies, but they covered everything from commercial roofing Rhode Island, to flat roofing Rhode Island.  In fact, no matter what I did, I couldn’t find one to fix my residential roof, so I turned to the phone book.

In the end, I was able to find a company to come out and they should be out here in an hour or two.

When my iPod wore out, I was more than a little bit upset. I went to try and replace it and the store I went to was out of stock. They suggested that I buy a Zune with a Zune dock cable if I did not want to wait. I decided that I could not live without it, so I would give it a shot.

I was very impressed. It was as good, if not better than my iPod and my friends all wanted to get one as well. We went back to the store so they could get some and I bought a Zune travel charger, so that I would be able to charge it anywhere, as I did not spend a whole lot of time at home.

My friend, Cherie, bought a Zune car charger and I have used it several times as well. I don’t think, at this point, that I will ever go back to the iPod. I am more than happy with the Zune and I think it was a great decision to buy it.

Sometimes I feel very much like a big geek.  It isn’t the glasses that make me look the part but it is more due to the fact that I work at a software development company.  Though that may not seem to geeky, the truth of the matter comes to light when you ask me what I do.

I design voice encryption software for cell phones.

There I said it.  That usually stops most people from asking any more questions.

But some people continue to ask and I then find myself talking about how to code gsm security software and mention some of the gsm encryption algorithms we use to streamline our software.  Once in awhile, you end up having someone to talk to, but usually once you mention this, the room goes quiet.

So, I try to explain my job as simple as possible - I am a programmer.  I don’t want to have the label of geek assigned to me anymore.

Most of my days at work are rather slow.  I work at a home improvement store, and I spend my time selling toilets and showers in the plumbing department.  I have been doing this for a few years now, and it may not be the most exciting job on the planet, but it is the slow pace that makes the job worthwhile.

But, starting today, our company is selling shower cubicles and electric showers for a deep discount.  Okay, it is the first sale that we have had in my department since I started here, and I never realized that people would go so crazy for a sale.

Though it has been a great day for commissions, I have a feeling that my feet will really hurt when I get home.  Hopefully, this isn’t an indication of how the rest of the week is going to go - I don’t know if I can handle the pace for that long.