Bill Watt’s Blog

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“The voice of reason is often drowned out until all the other voices are quieted by the shock of failure.”

- Bill Watt

As most people who know me know, I love my Korean BBQ lunches on Saturday. There isn’t much that will get in the way of me making it there since I can’t just bolt over during the work week. But this week Alice and I got to go and catch up with Chad, Jen and the new baby over lunch. I guess one plus to our neighborhood is the new baby’s r us is a draw. Anyway- it was awesome catching up with them and totally trumped the Korean BBQ run.

Follow-up note: the universe balances out once again. Gersh came to town and we met for dinner Wednesday night as we often do and he suggested Korean.So, all is right with the world.

I haven’t made time to blog about this yet so I’ll just toss out the obit that ran in the paper today:

James Watt, Jr., age 95, died Thursday evening, October 30, 2008 after a short illness. He was born on December 1, 1912 in Scotland and was a long time resident of Wilmington, MA and more recently a resident of the Canton Regency. James was a machinist in the Boston Navy Yard during WW II, retiring from the U.S. Gypsum Co. in Boston . He was a member of the Hill Memorial Baptist Church in Allston , MA and a member of Bethany Lodge F&AM, Brighton , MA . Proceded in death by his parents, James and Isabelle (Gillooly) Watt and by his wife Lillian (Ritchie) Watt. James is survived by two sons, James Ritchie Watt of Dracut, MA and William (Priscilla) Watt of Canton; two grandsons William (Alice) Watt of San Jose, CA and James (Jennifer) Watt of Canton; two great-grandsons James and Joseph Watt of Canton; and a sister Isabella (Andrew) McGowan of Fl. Funeral services will be held Wednesday (Nov. 5, 2008) at 11:00 am in the Arnold Funeral Home of Canton with Dr. William Watt officiating. Friends may call one hour prior to the services from 10-11:00 am. Donations may be made to the Church of the Covenant Memorial Fund, 3014 Fulton Dr. NW , Canton , OH 44718 . Interment will be held on Saturday in the Wildwood Cemetery in MA.

( Arnold , Canton 330-456-7291)
www.arnoldfuneralhome.com

I am going to start reading Atlas Shrugged again tonight. I read it every year and haven’t done it this year with the new job and all. Plus- I think I could use the encouragement I always derive from that experience.

My friends at CanDo have some pages on their site that you should check out: Money and Gold.

If only one good thing comes out of this Palin debacle I’m happy that it was a renewed chance to see Tina Fey on SNL.

See here for the SNL VP debate skit.

I don’t talk about work often in the blog… it isn’t a work blog (which is obvious if you look at all the posts about MTV shows) but there are a couple fun things coming out of Current these days and here is the first:

Hack the Debate:

We’ve got an interesting project going on this Friday where you can disuss the debates on twitter by adding #current to your tweet and your comment may end up on the Current broadcast. For more information and details on how to participate, check out http://current.com/debate

But you lost me in New York and I doubt I’ll ever even consider Atlanta (Sorry J Scot and Carol).

But seriously… is Bravo going with the CSI approach to syndication and soon we’ll have a Real Housewives of Canton, Ohio?

My favorite thing to do is to spend time with people I love.

I was going through a bunch of pictures on my iPhone (one of the many ways I distract myself from my hour commute in the morning) and I was pretty pumped to come across this pic. It was taken during our wedding weekend up in Portsmouth, NH and while I was freaking out on the inside about the big life event about to happen I couldn’t help but enjoy this moment. It is funny to realize that Corinne was the only person who knew everyone else in the picture before this meal. (This was pre-Facebook where you social networks didn’t cross as readily.)

I only have a couple things I would have wished to be different (a few of my friends living in CA couldn’t make it, Jen and Jason would arrive a few minutes after this and just missed being in it, Paul, Jen, Amelia, Kitty and a few others hadn’t arrived yet) but that is like a 1st world billionaire wishing he had change kinda problem.

The next day we were able to have the picture that got a lot closer to my perfect picture requirements.

(I’ll try to remember to replace these images with the higher quality versions later… not the versions that were optimized for the iPhone.)

Anyway, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped give me these memories but especially Alice who pulled it all together.