Happy long weekend? #MDY3

Hey MDY3ers!

Since MDY3 is an international thing, it is hard to wish a Happy Fourth of July to the world, but if you aren’t in America, then you might be taking the special long summer escape or watching the World Cup from your desk…. so with this in mind, the MDY3 headquarters voted to just wish everybody no matter where in the world they are a great weekend…. nice huh?

So have a great  weekend!

Be safe, do good and love life a bit more!

And keep reporting those lovely hours – it is so wonderful to read all the good happening in the world because of people like you….

 

Thanks from everybody at MDY3!!!

 

Thanks!!

 

 

 

Welcome to Tuesday night /Wednesday early morning

My, my – it has been busy – and there has been some technical humps too!

So the desktop’s wifi crashed officially on Saturday, and with that meant everything that was anything on the computer was being done on my phone – yep – the small screen blues – but hey all is well that ends well – Sunday was spent in part buying a new wifi card and the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out how to install it…. and then install the software and drivers…. ah… life is a challenge…

Got the wifi back on Sunday evening to help out the MDY3 staff with over 145k of emails that had come in over the last three days…

Then Monday – it rained and that meant the power decided to quit for the afternoon and be sketchy the rest of the evening so back to the small screen blues and tons of phone interviews instead of Skype calls. But we patch it thru and we do what we got to do with what we have at the time….. and that leads us to right now…..

It is 1:25am and I am still going thru all your report emails and it is awesome. Sure, the wifi is working and sure, the power is on, but it is all of the cool stories and all of you that rocks right now….

We estimate that we are over 100,000 hours for the first weekend on MDY3, we will know better come Saturday as we are doing a weekly report of the hours….. yet 100k in hours is awesome….. and we got the rest of the summer to enjoy and do this amazing project….no matter what life throws at us….

I keep thinking one thing in my mind – when life gets all strange and crazy…. it is this song HERE

See you tomorrow….. and remember it’s all right.

 

#Sunday Thought

The first Sunday of an amazing summer is here!

Time to go old school – very old school with a quote from Socrates!

 

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

 

Have some fun on the first Sunday of summer and remember you are amazing people!!

After Midnight – The start of the MDY3

At midnight sharp begins MDY3

And if you have not started – well start!!!

 

To kick things off, listen to the very talented Scottish Rocker Maggie Bell singing After Midnight….

And with reason, I will actually be up at midnight my time and talking over the airwaves in Scotland – Edinburgh to be exact…. (I will post the link to the radio station on Twitter!)

See Moving Difference is over there as well, there are a bunch of people (last number was 2000+) that are kicking off Moving Difference by an entire day of volunteering for various charities….

and I hear that they have a pile of questions, laughs and stories to tell me and everybody listening…. it should be a great time….

 

What is happening after that you ask, well, depending on the time, I am going for a little 8 mile walk and then the MDY3 staff takes over and everybody is out and about in several different states helping at a food bank, pet shelter, homeless youth safe place and a children’s hospital – until roughly 5pm and then we are going to drop in on some people that inspire us too with some cookies and cards- either nursing home or veterans homes or the hospital before going home to see all the emails about what you lovely people did on the first day of MDY3!!

 

 

It is only fitting that the first day of MDY3 is a 24 hour day for me, I wouldn’t have it any other way…. 🙂

 

Until the clock strikes, midnight, – be good to yourself….