Mobil NECC Reunion

Brian & Melanie Callahan & Doris Wert & Carole Umscheid organized a reunion for Mobil employees that took place on November 14 at Washington Crossing Inn, Washington Crossing, PA. It was great to see a lot of associates, some of whom we hadn't seen or been in touch with for some 8 or 9 years. Doris put together a booklet in which each of us summarized what we've been up to since we left Mobil in Princeton. In addition to the organizers, attendees were Lou Umscheid, Joe & Valorie Budelis, Mike & Kathleen Cosentino, Harry (MTC Engineering Acct Mgr) & Helen Frank (aka Leah, also worked at MTC Pennington), Steve Goldman, Sue Good, Dianne & Bill Hargraves, Bob & Gail Hinkle, Don & Sue Karp Lowing, Jerry & Linda McDermott, Roger Porto, Trish Donaldson (escorted by RMP), Bill (still @ Exxon-Mobil, 25 years now) & Lisa Radcliffe, Sallie Rochford, Frank & Marilyn Romano, Denise Schooley, Bob & Nancy Swierczek, Robin & Connie Unangst, Joe and Ruth Yencha, Ron Wolfe, and Ann Crocker.

How To Do Webinars presented at Trenton Small Business Week

Last Wednesday, Joe Budelis, as owner of Persimmon Telecommunications, presented "How To do Webinars"as a part of Trenton Small Business Week in Trenton, NJ. For details see How To Do Webinars at Trenton Small Business Week. The PowerPoint slide presentation is available at How to Choose a Conference Service for business or personal use.

Montauk and back to Barnard

This month we spent some time in Montauk on the tip of Long Island where we had great beach weather. We ended the month yesterday by driving KDB back to Barnard.

Earlier in the year, we lost Tulip, a white Persian cat. We still have two of her kids, Rama and SnowWhite.

Informal NECC Reunion August 1, 2008

Brian Callahan arranged an August 1 informal lunch and get together for some of us from Mobil NECC. The photo, courtesy of Doris Wert, shows, standing from the left, Joe Budelis, Melanie Callahan, Bob & Nancy Swierczek, Carole Umscheid, Brian the Man, and Doris Wert is seated. Denise Wyckoff Schooley was in the area and stopped by briefly before lunch. Pete Gerster had planned to be there but we are all saddened that instead he was making funeral arrangements because of the sudden death of his son, Martin. Brian is arranging a more formal NECC Reunion for November.

This Summer: Valorie writing articles on Health & Wellness; KDB at The New Yorker

This summer KDB is a Photo Intern at The New Yorker so she is in the midst of the controversy over this week's New Yorker cover page. See
NPR:'New Yorker' Editor Defends Obama Cover.

Valorie, a Certified Holistic Health Counselor and Reiki Master, has published several Health and Wellness articles. To see some of her articles, you could simply do a search on Sands-Budelis.

Storage Space available near Princeton NJ in Montgomery Township, the Village of Blawenburg

If you are near Princeton, Montgomery, Hopewell, Rocky Hill, Skillman or Belle Mead, NJ, I have some rental storage space available in the village of Blawenburg. If you know anyone who needs to rent a storage shed or garage in the Mercer county or Somerset County area, have them contact me or send them to Princeton NJ Storage Rental.

VoIP (Voice Over IP) Demystified Presentation

This weekend I gave a couple presentations on VoIP Demystified at the Trenton Computer Fair. You can see the VoIP (Voice Over IP) Demystified for more info on VoIP.

Vacation to Los Cabos - The tip of Baja

We just returned from the tip of Baja California - Los Cabos. It was heartwarming to be able to enjoy the 70 to 80 degree beach weather in Los Cabos while we checked the temperature in Princeton and found it to be 19 degrees a number of days (and that wasn't Celesius). It was comfortable that the temperature in Princeton warmed up to the 50s for our return.

The vacation was mainly about relaxing and getting away for a few days. We did make time for the requisite shopping and took a dinner cruise around the gate at Cabo San Lucas. We saw a couple whales and also road amongst some dolphins at the very tip of Baja.