So much going on…

With so much happening both professionally and personally lately, I find it hard to get the time I want to sit down and write a post for three blogs. So! Let’s recap in short-order form on the professional side:

• I moved the company to downtown Boston this week, but we don’t officially dump our stuff into the new space until Tuesday the 5th.
• We hit over 1,000 members on our UX Professionals organization (and the site is in production with articles and membership information).
• I’m working very closely with the American Marketing Association, Boston Chapter, on a unique opportunity.
• We have three current projects and one of them is, amazingly, not Web-based but will bring us closer to a partner vendor that we’ve wanted to work with for a long, long time.
• A book on creative management is officially in the works and the first chapter is written and edited (and it only took a year to get this going…).
• We’re getting ready to hire another full-time person to handle production development that could lead to a bigger role within the firm. The position will be based in Boston and we’ll post the opening on AuthenticJobs.com and VisualActivity.com when we’re ready.

Now, the Sox…

• Whatever happened to Manny Ramirez? Last I heard he was lost in the Ravine looking for used baseballs and handing them to orphans…
• Jed Lowrie is really someone we need to keep an eye on. Not a crapload ™ of power, but a solid contact hitter like Pedroia who can make things happen. Two games since April he’s driven in 3… this kid could have some staying power… (Lugo and his 9 million a year can have a seat if they’re only paying Lowrie a couple hundred grand; look for Cora to be out of here and Lugo to play primarily backup until they find a buyer in ‘09.)
• I LOVE the idea that Lowell is playing hurt, but I HATE that he’s hurt.
• How about Jason Bay getting a hot start?! I spoke to my friend Pat yesterday who said that the fans would have given him some breathing room if he had a shaky start. I’m not so sure… I think if he had 9 whifs right now we’d all be freaking out a little.
• Papi has been quiet. Too quiet.

Only 51 games to pull away from the pack. 51 games to establish the postseason roster.

Can the Sox repeat this year?