Thinking of Home

I'm sitting here in front of my spiffy new Dell Laptop conducting business as usual when a thought occured to me. Despite living in China for the last 4 years, Indirectly, I still surround myself with things from home. On my wall is a map of Warren I got from Jim Decker's WCCBI office last time I was home. My cigarette is certainly NOT from Warren, but my coffee mug, a Guinness Beer mug given to me by my cousins, Jaime & Jimmy, is filled with my usual somewhat strong 3rd cup of instant. Even the spoon is from my mother's silverware drawer. Sorry, mom, I'll bring it back next time I come home if you want.

My wallet still contains my Moose Lodge #109 membership card & my American Legion post 135 card (which reminds me, I really should find out about renewing these memberships. And behind me the wall displays an old Warren Jaycees Fourth of July Celebration poster from 2003.

I've been running WarrenJaycees.com for about 7 years now, and I started WarrenPA.us about 2 years ago, initially to keep updated with what's going on back home. I never planned on making it a commercial venture, but with the addition of JamestownNY.us & EdinboroPA.us, it's starting to turn into one. WarrenPA.us used to be a sub-section of WarrenJaycees.com until I bought the Terascape.net domain name (To this day, I still thank the Jaycees for letting me run amok on their servers for 5 years). I couldn't hope to compete with WarrenNet (which is either gone or blocked here in China) & to this day I still don't. Debra Westfall still has the most complete index of everything in Warren online, and for that I salute her. Terascape.net/warren was born & from there, WarrenPA.us. It was a rocky start, but eventually it grew to what it is today. I joined WCCBI, got caught up with my Moose & Legion memberships & still scream for collaboration with businesses back home with little to no results. That's Warren Online for ya.

All that came from me wanting to stay caught up with Warren news & information. Funny thing about Warren, people leave, but they still come back, even if it's just through the internet.