Last week, touring sites with the European company planning to come here, when in the Pittsburgh area we drove by a large coal fired power plant that shut down 2 years ago. Based on the size, it was probably a 2,000 MW (Mega Watt) facility. A mega watt is 1 million watts of power. This […]
Last weekend Lynnda and I were at a conference. Joe Freedy from Pittsburgh was the keynote speaker. In college Joe was a quarterback and played against people like Ben Roethlisberger. As a freshman, he was 4th string. He wasn’t worried about playing. He was just happy to be there. Their starting quarterback got hurt in […]
CJ is our oldest grandchild. He was born when I was only in my thirties. Many of my friends were still having children of their own and I was a “grandfather.” I didn’t like the word because I remember my grandparents, sitting in a rocking chair, shuffling with a cane, resting from their labors and […]
A few years ago, we were in New York City for the National Speakers Association’s annual convention. It was my first time in NYC. I was fascinated by the tall buildings and couldn’t help looking up at the skyscrapers. We had a free evening and were going to do some site seeing. Kay, part of […]
This week we were in Washington, DC at the SelectUSA Investment Summit. This is a conference and exhibition put on annually by the U.S. Department of Commerce to encourage foreign investment in the USA. Every United States State and territory is represented with an exhibit booth. Some companies exhibited and well as other local and […]
