Thank You for Donating to the MS Society in 2008

   The end of the year also ends the 2008 MS Society fundraising.  I wanted to share my thanks with everyone that contributed and supported my efforts this year, as well as some of the final totals we achieved with your help.  It was a great bike ride and event.  I want to give a special thanks to my mom Judy and my girlfriend Amie who voluteered all weekend during the ride.  They were very supportive of my efforts.  They are already planning on volunteering in 2009 and of course I will be riding in the 2009 Bike MS event as well.
    The Bike MS weekend is a fast-paced weekend with a lot of work and little sleep for volunteers and bike riders.  This year my mom and I headed out early Friday to Columbia MO to help setup for the event.  My mom provided medical assistance for the bike riders all weekend.  Amie helped with a few different jobs: serving breakfast Saturday, supporting riders returning at the finish line, bike check and probably the best job of all the passing out the free beer at the end of the event which was provided by Anhueser Busch.  I rode 75 miles Saturday and 75 miles Sunday with 150 total miles for the weekend.   Check out some of the pictures my Mom and I took at:http://picasaweb.google.com/bigcrazyjohn/MS1502008#.  I think I stopped at almost every rest stop (about every 10 miles).  The Grahamwich was my favorite snack this year.  
     I raised $1000 this year which was double my goal, and a new record for me.  The final team totals were provided this month and Team Kaldi (my riding team) is the 2nd largest team, with 116 members, and they were the Top Fundraising Team this year, with over $102,000 dollars raised for 2008!!  The Bike MS fundraiser is the largest fundraising event for the Gateway Area Chapter of the MS Society.  They are still tallying up the pledges for the 2008 year working towards their goal of $2.4 millon.  This money will be used by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to not only support research for a cure tomorrow, but also to provide programs which address the needs of people living with MS today.  I will be sending out my 2009 Bike MS information in the near future.  If you want to read more about the Bike MS go here http://bikemos.nationalmssociety.org/    If you want to read more about the Gateway Area Chapter of the National MS Society go herehttp://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/MOS/index.aspx    
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and will have a safe and Happy New Year!  
Thank you!
John Drury

 

 

I now own bigcrazyjohn.com!

I purchased http://bigcrazyjohn.com from godaddy.  I have it forwarding to this blog.  A friend had it for the Bigcrazyjohn band (I wish they would play a reunion tour).  No major plans for the bigcrazyjohn site just wanted to make sure I had the domain.  My current project is http://bigcrazybeer.com aka http://bigcrazybeer.blogspot.com 

I would like to sort my 3g iPhone apps into Categories!

I recently posted this to the apples iPhone feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html I called their support line today and they could not assist and directed me to the feedback to submit my enhancement. I would ask that you post the same message or something similar if you are a iTouch or iPhone user and are a fan of the apps I am sure you have pages of Apps. I have tried organizing the apps on different pages but it is still frustrating. It is so frustrating because I have seen the hacked iPhone and the app that allows you to categorize the apps. I want that! I do not want to void my warranty by hacking/jailbreaking the phone so I called apple and all they could do was to suggest the enhancement. Now I will wait patiently or create a ruckus haven't decided yet. Here is one of many examples on You Tube of the category app on a hacked iPhone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z64WA0hPrtA
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WHAT?
I would like an enhancement or a down-loadable app for the iPhone to make folders or categories on my iPhone to organize my apps. Yes I can move around apps to have their own pages but not nearly as organized if I had a home page or 2nd home page with potentially 16 categories.
WHERE? On my 3g iPhone home page (ideally) or a down-loadable app.
WHEN? As soon as you can Please!
WHO? For the iPhone and iTouch users
WHY?
1) Because you have the apps organized in categories in the app store for us to download. Why can't we categorize them on our phone?
2) I have 6 almost 7 pages of apps that are a mess and it makes it difficult to find apps at this point. I organized them once but through the process of updates they are a mess again.
3) I am not the only one other people want to categorize: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8308719
4) When people hack or jail break their phone they can do it. I do not want to void my warranty and potentially break my phone just to have this feature.
5) The apps are awesome just give us the ability to organize them.
6) This will reduce finger swips and time across the iPhone world. 7 or 9 swips to get to the last page. Or touch games category and touch or swip to scoll and touch the game.
7) I would pay for this feature! This might allow for people to download more apps because they won't be so overwhelming. Make it an app for download and profit off it!