The Joeism Blog

Life is full of random events. This event is one of them and has nothing to do with my usual topics of Bronto and email marketing.
Last year Karalyn (my wife) was approached while shopping at our local Whole Foods about starring in a short clinical trial video related to pre-term labor. In addition to her [...]

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Yesterday was a strange day.
Yesterday the Women’s Professional Billiards Association descended on the American Tobacco Campus for the Carolina Classic 9-Ball Tournament. To kickoff the tournament, the world’s top 12  women players teamed up with amateurs to play in a pre-tournament ProAm contest. Fortunately, Chaz and I got to be two of the amateurs.
The evening [...]

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Last Saturday I ran the Raleigh Rocks Half Marathon. The race was well organized and the weather was good, but personally I can’t say it was one of my better running days.
Somehow I knew that it was going to be rough from the beginning. My registration was misplaced and I was a bit late so [...]

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The blogosphere has grown and now includes my wife Karalyn as a contributor. She started a blog about a month ago and has written some interesting posts about our life on Urban Avenue.
Here are some recent posts about our fish and oldest daughter:

Remembering Sally
Ximena’s First Business

Enjoy.

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My resolutions for this year are simple:

1. No alcohol.
No beer, wine, liquor, etc. I have a couple beers a week so I wouldn’t say that I’m a big drinker. But, I’m a big believer in cleansing one’s system from time to time. In the past, I’ve given up meat and soda (last year). I expect [...]

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At the beginning of the year, I made two personal resolutions. They were clear, absolute and uncheatable … unfortunately. Here they are:
1. Don’t drink soda (pop for my Ohio brethren)
This went well. I like soda but I avoided it completely for the year. Unfortunately, I discovered a loophole — sweet tea, a popular drink down [...]

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I’m not much of a music nut but I do try to refresh my music now and again. Back in high school, I was a hard rock fan. Van Halen reigned supreme. I still find nothing better than a good listen to 5150 or 1984 to get pumped up. I love Van Halen and [...]

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My wife and I had a new baby last Sunday night. Xalvador McCurdy Colopy. He is the third and joins his two older sisters Ximena and Xiomara.
The delivery went well and fairly fast — at least from my point of view. We dropped the kids off at a neighbor’s house at 7:30 that evening, took [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, a woman approached my wife in the fruit section of Whole Foods and asked if she would like to be in a video. Strange? Normally — yes, but my wife is 8 months pregnant and the woman is producing a training video for a clinical trial for a drug designed [...]

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Today is a big day — my youngest daughter turned 1. Xiomara has had a big year — breathing, smiling, crawling, talking (kind of) and then walking. My 35th year hasn’t been nearly as exciting.
Curious about the name? Xiomara is a Spanish name (my mom’s side of the family is from Puerto Rico). Although not [...]

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