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Someone was googling Corey Feldman and I think this time they were actually looking for me, or at least my Facebook page. I’m relatively hard to Google due to the a certain 80’s actor with whom I share a name. But I do have a big enough online presence that with certain key bits of information I’m actually pretty easy to find. Simply add DC (as in Washington) to a Corey Feldman search string e.g. “Corey Feldman DC” and my Facebook page is top of the list. Add my middle initial, even with out the DC – “Corey J Feldman” and you get my little website as the top hit, at least at the time of writing this post. Anyway, I was looking though my logs the other night and I found a google referral from the search string “Corey J Feldman DC Facebook”.

Clearly whoever was looking for my FB page knew enough about me to add my middle initial and hometown, yet they were not already a Facebook “Friend”. This eliminates a large percentage of people I know, personally at any rate. I don’t have any current coworkers, not for any particular reason, there are no embarrassing photos or status updates, I guess being in HR I tend error on the side of maintaining professional boundaries. I suppose it could be a Twitter “follower”, but I have not exactly been particularly active as of late. I’m also surprised that they googled it versus searched from within Facebook, although it is possible they don’t have a Facebook profile – I do actually know a couple people not on FB.

I am not sure why this caught my interest other than I find it fascinating and surprising when anyone actually looks for me. Though I am the consummate Leo (for the record I do not put any stock in Astrology, just using it here as a shortcut description of my personality) and I am drawn to center stage, I’m not always conformable being there. Yet I keep tweeting, blogging and facebooking and I occasionally read my site logs to see what my visitors are reading and what brought them here. So maybe I doth protest to much, or maybe like everyone else I am slightly messy and have conflicting personalty traits.

Are you ever surprised to find out someone has googled you? Or if you have a small/smallish blog, do you look at your site stats.

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I was tagged and completed one of those “25 random things about me” and true to #25 I decided to repost to my blog.

1. Someday I will finish and publish a novel.

2. I have finished many shorts stories over the years and have never attempted to have any of them published.

3. I have an irrational fear of birds.

4. That said very few things in this world truly frighten me. I have driven a buck twenty bumper to bumper on a tortuous road, gone bungee jumping, cliff diving, skydiving and countless other youthful indiscretions.

5. And that said I have been terrified on a couple of occasions. The first was a month before Josh was born and we were driving to Holly Cross to do a tour of the maternity ward. We were stopped in traffic on 495 near magical kingdom AKA the Mormon Temple. Melissa stated screaming as a SVU plowed into us at highway speeds. The accident put her into early labor and it was hours before they were able to stop the labor and give us any assurance that she and the baby would be OK. The second time in recent memory was when I held my son for the first time.

6. Even though I am pro-science and highly critical of religious dogma, I am surprisingly religious. I have never doubted in G-d, only humanity’s ability to understand.

7. Most of my life I preferred to read what Academics call literature and now I prefer speculative fiction. I can even admit to truly loving some urban/dark fantasy that could just as easily be housed in the romance isle.

8. I am a terrible insomniac and Lunesta has changed my life.

9. I have been contemplating giving up meat on moral grounds but am not sure I have the will power to make it happen.

10. I’m a Mac, and a PC and a LINUX

11. As a kid I used to take things apart to to figure out how they worked, I still do.

12. I used to build PCs before it was considered easy.

12. I am very mechanically inclined but have never changed my own oil, mostly because I don’t like getting dirty.

13. I love to garden. I know that sounds contradictory but I don’t mind dirt dirt. It is the greasy and/or sticky things I don’t love.

14. I have studied Christianity more in depth than Judaism.

15. I hated being Jewish as a child but happily identify with Judaism as an adult.

16. My favorite game is Gin provided I am playing with my wife. She is a knocker!

17. My mind works best when I am multitasking.

18. I can listen to an audio book or watch TV while reading and follow both. I know this makes me a little odd but I was a multitasker before modern communication necessitated it.

19. My wife never ceases to amaze me.

20. On any given day Lifeguarding was my favorite job. Bar-tending was the most fun, and Teaching the most rewarding.

21. Even though I don’t LOVE it I am very good at HR an assume I will keep doing it forever unless I do #1 more than once and really really really well.

22. I am terrible with names.

23. Having a child (soon to be children) has changed my life in unbelievable and indescribable ways.

24. Yes I do get asked about the other Corey Feldman all to often and how funny is it that my best friend’s name is Tony Orlando.

25. Most of my life I have shared easily but with few. With Social media (blogging, facebook, twitter) I now share with many but no longer with ease.

Originally published at Corey J Feldman. Please leave any comments there.

Originally published at Corey J Feldman. Please leave any comments there.

Had a wonderful weekend.  I didn’t do any writing, but you know what, that is OK.  I don’t think I spent more then 15 minutes at my computer all weekend.  Not to say I embraced a luddite way of life, I had my trusty iPhone, even made a couple Joshua related blog post straight from the Jesus phone.   I did not think about work until I hit the gym this morning – work related reading material in hand.  While the pregnant 4pm Friday before a holiday weekend phone call did indeed come, I had left at 2 and no one bothered my cell.  What I did do this weekend was spent quality time with my wife and son.  We read, gardened, shopped, hung photos on previously barren walls, played with Joshua, rode the CJ Park train and went for walks.  Actually Melissa walked and pushed the jogging stroller and I strapped on the roller blades and entertained Joshua with my wheeling around.  It was a wonderful weekend filled with family, love and joy.  It was a beautiful reminder of why I get up every morning; battle the demons (traffic, work and personal) happily and without reservation. 

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Ok, today I am having one of those, how the hell am I ever going to finish a novel days.  I don’t talk about work here, but this isn’t really about work, and there is nothing privileged or confidential, so I will share.  I was asked to put together a newsletter article for one of our business units.  I decided to go with the benefits of mentoring.  This was a fairly short article, less the 500 words.  I came up with the idea, did the research and formulated what I wanted to say in about 30 minutes.  I am not exaggerating when I say it took me another 2 hours to actually get the words on paper in a coherent fashion and I still had a typo when I asked a colleague to review.  Just one of those days I guess…