The most important thing in life is showing up — it doesn’t matter if you are late.
Just read the strangest book: In Secret Service by Mitch Silver. Basic idea is that Ian Fleming leaves an unpublished manuscript outing the Duke of Windsor as a traitor. The charming main character is a young female professor from Yale who inherits the manuscript and proceeds to dodge bad guys for the rest of the book.
It’s a fun [...]
One of my hosting accounts is at Dreamhost. I love the company and it’s unlimited hosting accounts. I even read it’s friendly tongue-in-cheek newsletters and blog posts occasionally.
I pay for my for “My Crazy Domain Insane” once a year on Halloween. Today, the gremlins took over the Dreamhost billing system and I was charged for [...]
My Comcast digital recorder broke yesterday. I got the DVR equivalent of the blue screen of death - click-click-click sounds. Odd noises are unnerving with any piece of electronic equipment and I really don’t do hardware.
Tried the usual solution: power off, wait 30 seconds, turn on power, and wait for the time to display. Got [...]
Lots of folks like to tell how they quit smoking but other people usually aren’t all that interested. They either quit years ago and think you are a fool for waiting so long or they never started and think you are just a fool. Either way tales of quitting are mostly repetitious and boring.
However, this [...]
One of the things I want to keep track of here is the books I enjoy reading.
I like the fast paced personal style of The Cure for Remembering: A Dr. Nora Sternberg Mysteryby Ruth E. Weissberger, M.D.
Premise: Hospitals are dangerous places for patients and staff especially when there is a murderer on the loose.
I liked the [...]
Ever gone online to work and discovered hours later that you have wasted hours playing a game or reading a forum that has nothing to do with your business? I do - all too frequently.
I pretty much wasted this afternoon playing with JibJab’s Snowball Fight.
Basically you replace the heads in the video with snapshots of five [...]
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about the power of just showing up. Whether it’s an exercise routine or writing a blog, the folks who show up are the ones who benefit the most. You don’t have to do anything extraordinary, you just have to show up ready to exercise or write. If you show up consistently, [...]