I'm writing this on Labor Day. So yup, I'm writing this during the last final gasp of summer. Just when I started writing this I saw that 64-year-old Diana Nyad just swam over 100 miles from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage and without flippers.

This is compared to my largest motion of the day, going out to the kitchen and making a peanut butter sandwich. However, in my tribute to Ms. Nyad, I also did this without the benefit of flippers. So there.

I know you're wondering.  Crunchy.  You're welcome.

Anyway, back to Ms. Nyad.  This was her fifth try in 35 years, taking her about 53 hours. The last time I did something for 53 hours straight probably took place around 35 years ago, and probably involved Dungeons and Dragons.

Some people have that gift to be inspirational to others. Others have the ability to become inspired by these folk. I have the ability to realize how little I've done by measuring what others have accomplished. Not in a depressing way, but just in a "oh, yeah...I could've done more, I guess..." sort of way.

Just knowing that when Mozart had been my age he had already been dead for 20 years kinda thing.

So I have to stick to my accomplishments, such as they are. Like I didn't swim much this summer at all, but did celebrate 6 years of Simplex-IT. And we celebrated as we always do, with our annual picnic. Nobody swam there, as I recall. But as always we had a great crowd come out and celebrate with us. We even had some of our vendor partners show up (folks from Equus and StorageCraft dropped by).

Had the chance to sponsor a lunch meeting with the Portage County Safety Council, and spoke to the 80+ folks at their meeting for a few minutes. Also sponsored a hole (I still have no idea what that entails) at the Mayor's Association of Portage, Stark and Summit Counties annual golf outing.

Migrated 4-5 companies over to Office 365, included working with a cool group of folks down in Columbus at Excel Management Systems inc.

Brought on board two more companies who are trusting us with their IT infrastructures and, perhaps more importantly, their IT strategies. One will be getting their welcoming cookies tomorrow, if all goes according to plan.

Organized an online meeting of about 20 partners who use Level Platforms for Remote Monitoring and Management. We use these meetings to share our experiences and help develop our best practices.

We've also established our next several months of free Lunchinar topics. They are:

• 18 September:  Google Glass
• 16 October:       Windows 8.1
• 20 November:   When is IT obsolete?
• 18 December:    3rd Annual Geek Raffle
• 15 January:         IT Trends for 2014

Ok, so now with Labor Day pretty much over, I fully expect to see Christmas decorations and sales within the next week.