Tuesday, January 21, 2014

FAST START TO THE NEW YEAR!

Hello All,

It has been a jam packed winter for this guy so far.  My camera didn't survive our tornado response deployment in central Illinois so I am short on pictures until I grab another.

I road tripped it from Minneapolis to Boston to see my family for the holidays.  Spending time with them was great.  It isn't often I get home these days and I enjoyed every minute of it.  From there I made my way to New York to join up with our Superstorm Sandy rebuild team on Long Island.

I then made my way super south out of the country and spent a week down in Cancun, Mexico.  Beautiful company.  Beautiful hotel.  All you can eat food.  Terrible weather.  All and all, good times had by all.

Since my return, I have been working my way up and down the east coast spreading the word about my disaster response team.  Recruiting volunteers, fundraising, networking etc.  Luckily enough, I have been able to mix business with pleasure and have been meeting up with some Clemson pals all over the place.  Thanks for the good times Ali,Robin,Sabrina,Bill etc...

I am back in NYC bracing for another snowpocalypse that's hitting while I write.

Itching to book a flight towards warmer weather.

Hope everyone's new year is off to a great start

Mark/Chops

The Future Is No Place To Place Your Better Days

MY TRAVELS THE LAST MONTH OR SO

ROBIN, ALI, CHRIS, AND LAURA.  AFTER A LATE NIGHT IN MARYLAND!  FOLLOWED THIS UP WITH ANOTHER LATE NIGHT OF SHENANIGANS WITH SOME OF THE CLEMSON CREW GUYS THE NEXT NIGHT!
MY BOY STARBUCK BALNER WAS RECOGNIZED, AND RIGHTFULLY SO, AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST GAME CHANGERS IN THE WORLD DURING 2013.  GREAT MAN.  GREAT FRIEND.  GREAT LEADER.  PROUD TO KNOW YOU AND LUCKY TO HAVE YOU AS PART OF THE NECHAMA TEAM!


CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE BY CLICKING HERE: STARBUCK BALNER IS A BALLER!