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It's about community, entrepreneurs, politics, art . . and sometimes just silly fun . . . a slightly gay blog.Eugene Sepulveda
Love big West Texas skies, Austin and my husband, Dr. Steven Robert Tomlinson, with whom I've spent the last 17 years - eleven years since we were married on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Then, married again at St. James Episcopal Church in Austin, TX on June 27, 2015.Recent Comments
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- RT @AJentleson: The March of Dimes helped McConnell recover from childhood polio. They oppose his health care bill. But he refuses to me… 3 hours ago
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Steven’s recent tweets
- @British_Airways Thanks for saving our bacon when UA couldn't get us to London. Agent Jose Garcia in Austin makes BA look great! 3 weeks ago
- Want depth? Practice boredom. ssw.edu/blog/cultivati… 1 month ago
- A good speaker connects with the audience. A great speaker connects the audience with each other. 1 month ago
- Give a man a compliment, and you make his day. Teach a man to fish for compliments, and he'll have a lifetime of narcissistic insecurity. 2 months ago
- @evernotehelps Thanks, Aaron. That did it! 2 months ago
- To be easily offended is poor self esteem & lack of faith - Deepak Chopra
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- @British_Airways Thanks for saving our bacon when UA couldn't get us to London. Agent Jose Garcia in Austin makes BA look great! 3 weeks ago
- Want depth? Practice boredom. ssw.edu/blog/cultivati… 1 month ago
- A good speaker connects with the audience. A great speaker connects the audience with each other. 1 month ago
- Give a man a compliment, and you make his day. Teach a man to fish for compliments, and he'll have a lifetime of narcissistic insecurity. 2 months ago
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- It makes all the difference whether you believe the basic human problem is mortality or isolation. 5 months ago
- Mentor: The risk of wealth is how easy it is to buy loneliness. 5 months ago
- Southwest Airlines, how about doubling Rapid Rewards miles for all flights (like today's 4113) involving preventable delays? @SouthwestAir 6 months ago
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Thank you for posting this Eugene. 2009 started full of promise and optimism, but then, through no fault of our own, my husband and I got caught up in the fight of our lives with our new mortgage servicer. As just an ordinary schmuck who got kicked to her knees during the President’s battle against the banks, I can say with some authority – I can see the light!
A few months ago I had a great conversation with an economist with the Dallas Federal Reserve during their visit to Alpine. He pointed at me and said, “It’s now up to you and the other entrepreneurs to pull us out of this.”
Now that the banks are being thumped off our backs, it’s so much easier to get back to concentrating on creating more business(es). And there’s a treasure of new technology just waiting to be put to use. It’s about to get fun again.