I have needed to make this post for some time now.  FLhybrid.com needs a local event coordinator, and a volunteer editor.  Midlands Hybrid can use an assistant event coordinator and a volunteer editor as well.  Please send your information via the Contact us page at GRLT.com

When planning some of the recent events for the Midlands Hybrid Club I realized that the physical distance between the Florida club and myself has made regular events difficult for me to orchestrate from South Carolina without hiring someone.  I want the Florida club to have the same opportunities as the South Carolina Club, what I'm looking for is someone energetic and enthusiastic who can handle the stresses of building awareness through events such as gatherings and fundraisers.  I can still do major functions and remote based gatherings with everything as it is. When going over the short-term goals for the Midlands club and after a particularly hard-hitting question from a reporter at The Gainesville Sun, I want to make sure all the clean personal transportation clubs to have the same opportunities available so that national events are not out of reach.

Kacey Green
for the GCustom clean personal transportation clubs
“Promoting the spread of clean personal transportation technology.”

​Update March 2021

I’m not actively doing anything with either Hybrid Club as I’m all in on cars with plugs now. Though one of the alternate URLs for the YouTube channel is still MidelandHybrid for reasons I can’t understand.

This is great news; I am tired of spending a night out on the town with friends and coworkers and coming back with my clothes, and car reeking of cigarette smoke.  I understand this limits the freedoms of the smokers, but it does protect my personal space, I don't arrive home feeling guilty for hanging out because now it will take days to get the smoke smell out of my car and my jacket.  Some of my friends and coworkers are smokers but they are quite responsible and only smoke in designated smoking areas, I am sympathetic to their potential increased burden and elated at my new potential freedom.

The State | 04/19/2008 | Smoking ban in Columbia bars possible

Councilman E.W. Cromartie, one of the four council members who voted to exempt bars from the city’s smoking ban, is having second thoughts about the issue.  “I think we may have to look at that again,” Cromartie said. “It has been some time since the last time we voted.”  Only one council member would have to change his or her vote for the issue to be reconsidered.  The change comes after hearing complaints from restaurant and bar owners.  Andy Yogherty, owner of the Publick House on Devine Street, pleaded with council members earlier this week to change their minds. He said excluding bars penalizes businesses, like his, that have both a restaurant and a bar.  If there is to be a smoking ban, he said, it should be enforced across the board. Yogherty apparently struck a chord with Cromartie.

What do you think?

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
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Update 9 years ago as of March 2021:

This did end up passing at least for restaurants and places in the city from what I could tell, but I still occasionally end up coming back home with clothes that smell like stale cigarettes, but I can't remember when or where the last time was.

Anyone who remembers the start of my personal blog here should remember why I started it; this weblog was a test-bed for the new version of the content management system "Tech with a twist of lime!" is running, that version went gold months ago and has even has a pair of stability releases.  So coming up you will see this site's functionality morph to a more fully featured platform much like the one at GRLT.  After the tests are complete they will roll to the Midlands Hybrid Club site, once that site is ready for Saturday's soft launch this site will go back to being my personal blog but able to handle anything I might throw at it.  Next up is the upgrade of GRLT and the splitting of the tech and hybrid sides of the sites, long overdue.

Back to that history lesson, I had a test mule but it bore my name, only at this point did I see the point of a personal blog (for myself anyway, I’ve been reading personal blogs for years). I got really into posting and found my balance, then work got in the way and I stopped posting altogether. After becoming a workaholic yet again, I found a pseudo-balance for work/personal life and now I am back baby!

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."

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I was listening to "I love to move in here" off Moby's new album

this morning on my way to my staff meeting. This song has a great beat and a nice rap session and some great bass lines, it really caught me by surprise. I listened to it about five times today and cranked up the volume in the Prius.  The lyrics were easy to learn and I don't anticipate this one playing itself out quickly, unless XM channel 26 picks it up in their rotation.  XM 26 is the station the radio is set to at work.  The fresh new song and the cool breeze combined to put me in a great mood for the day ahead.  Listen to "I love to move in here" and let me know what you think.

Update: After writing my mini-review of this track I found a place to download it for free and a review of the whole album here: http://mainstreamisntsobad.blogspot.com/2008/03/last-night-with-moby.html

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."

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Today I walked another route slightly longer than my normal route, and it wiped me out.  I worked up a thin glisten of sweat, even with the cooler weather and the constant breeze; my legs feel like they can’t support my weight right now.  Tonight was done at a faster pace for about seventy-five percent of the “workout”.  Tomorrow I close at work so I’ll need to make a greater effort to take care of fighting the flab before it gets hot, or time for work rolls around.

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."

Today was my highly anticipated day off, I missed the opportunity to exercise in the daylight, but I completed a task that has been on my task list since the month after I took delivery of my Prius. Today’s walk was several times longer than usual and the first half went at a brisk pace, the second half I was exploring and went at the usual pace. Tomorrow is tentatively light strength training day, we’ll see what happens then. I did not get quite as much done as expected because there were unexpected errands all day, and about 14:30, the Prius project started to materialize. I will provide more details at “Tech with a twist of lime!” tomorrow after some field-testing.

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."

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I've been running at full-throttle since 06:45 Eastern, I don't have the energy for two full posts now, there will be a brief write-up on today's trip at GRLT.  I did fight the flab today with a walk on a different route and running with crazy energy and enthusiasm.  Tonight I will sleep soundly.

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."

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Today’s walk was awesome, the fall temperatures were amazingly comfortable.  The cool, soft, autumn breeze was just enough to keep my temperatures down and I did not feel like a grungy caveman after arriving back home, I had a thin layer of perspiration and felt the effects of a light workout but without ending up feeling disgusting.  I did get some of the light strength training in, with a bonus, today I helped several customers with their luggage but they were all flying with bricks, their heavy belongings were my free bonus strength training!  At “Tech with a twist of lime!”, I will discuss my upcoming business trip.  I think Tuesday, I close at work, and this enables me to have the morning off to write some more substantial content for both websites.

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."

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Day off

I am enjoying my only day off in a week.  Today’s installment of Fighting the Flab was a bike ride; I borrowed a self-shifting bike and rode it for about half an hour.  The hills put up quite a fight, I triumphed, winded and humbled.  The self-shifting bike didn’t like shifting in to high gear on straight downhill or level sections, and uphill didn’t want to shift down to my liking, but it didn’t allow me to over exert myself on an uphill stretch.  If this was all I would say, the bike did a great job. However, the seat was extremely uncomfortable and I will have to figure out how to adjust it for a better fit or get bike of my own, the seat will not allow me to make my goal of riding to the fountain at the other side of my housing development.

Tomorrow is back to walking and other miscellaneous exercising escalating into a real workout or disappearance of belly fat and man boobs, whichever comes first.  The ultimate goal of this plan is to achieve great fitness and to achieve a body image I’ll be satisfied with I’ll detail this goal later but now I have to post to keep up with my pledge.

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."

Today was a light day, I could not do my walk because of the rain, but I did play mini golf and Ping-Pong with my neighbor’s son, an exercise on its own.  Tomorrow is a day off, I plan to do chores, catch up on feed reading and blog posting, as well as getting my walk in, and working on the light strength training, I’ll be back here tomorrow, until then have a great weekend.

Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."