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Update: Care boxes for Serve the City

This is just a quick follow up post to the blog post on Valentine’s day – where I participated in the creation of over 200 Serve the City Care boxes for the less fortunate.

CarBoot - Serve the City Volunteering

All of our boxes delivered on Valentine’s Day. They went multiple places – which included a women’s refuge centre, drug rehabilitation centre, family support network and individual homes of elderly, disabled and disadvantaged people.

— One lady commented that it was the nicest gift she’d ever received!!

Now if that doesn’t make the universe a better place, I don’t know what does!

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Australian Pink Floyd

Australian Pink Floyd

Tuesday night, I was fortunate enough to head to the Australian Pink Floyd performance at the Olympia theater. It was sold out and deservedly so!

Australian Pink Floyd

While my seat wasn’t the best (behind a column) the performance was amazing. They had a huge round screen set up, lasers, smoke and that was just the beginning. Their musical sound was tight and super spot on to the original Pink Floyd that we all know and love.

Australian Pink Floyd

The best part was really the crowd though. As the concert began, everyone was quiet and listening. However as the performance went on, folks became more animated, clapping, whooping and whistling. Then… during Comfortably Numb (and from that point on) the entire audience was participating – doing what can only be described as a “Pink Floyd Sing along”. I love it when that happens – it’s like the entire crowd takes over, starts singing – and all that’s needed is the band for the background music. It’s those moments where you really feel inspired, and like everything else strips away – and there is only the music and we are all the “musicians”.

If you get the chance to go see the Australian Pink Floyd Live, I’d recommend it. (Just watch out for the obstructed view seats at the theater!) You can find out more about when /where their performances will happen on their website at http://www.aussiefloyd.com.

Australian Pink Floyd

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Packing Care Boxes for Serve the City

Happy Valentine’s Day! This week has been another busy one. One of the best things about where I work is that we always try to do our best to help the community via charity.

Serve the City Care boxes

On Thursday night, I and 16 other people from eBay Dublin got together in partnership with Serve the City Ireland and we put together 200 boxes for the under privileged.

Serve the City Care boxes

Serve the City Care boxes

We glued together the boxes, added tissue paper, put in the items, and then closed them up with a bow and a card for each one.

Serve the City Care boxes

Serve the City Care boxes

What’s amusing is that I originally volunteered to write half (100) of the Valentine cards. Jose drew the outside of the card –

Serve the City Care boxes

and Once they saw my penmanship, creativity, and artistry, however, I ended up composing the inside of all 200 cards! My hand was sore at the end – and so was my shoulder (seriously – who writes ANYTHING anymore – let alone 200 cards!) but it was well worth it.

Serve the City Volunteering

Serve the City Volunteering

Serve the City Care boxes

Ever wonder what 200 care boxes look like? Well, now you know:

Serve the City Care boxes

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