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Wordless Wednesday - Norwegian cherry

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Wordless Wednesday

LMNO me oh my

I was tagged by Gekko on Facebook. I decided to post it here so it could join the collection tagged "meme". A - Age: Middle. I’m appealing. B - Bed size: Full. Of me. C - Chore you hate: Vacuuming. D - Dog's name: Haven’t had a dog since childhood. His name was Brucie. E - Essential to start your day: Waking up. Food. Preferably in that order, too. F - Favorite color: Lavender blue. Still. G - Gold or Silver: White gold. Looks like silver. H - Height: Afraid of. Good thing I’m only 161 centimeters tall. I - Instruments you play: None now. Once played guitar and clarinet. No, not together. J- Job: Graphics designer. K - Kid(s): None. That I know of. L - Living arrangements: Organized in such a way that the police would never find anything helpful on their first two searches of the place. M - Mom's name: Like mine: Five letters long, ending in RA. We’re creative like that. N - Nicknames: None. No, really. It’s on account of hav

Wordless Wednesday - White is black

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Wordless Wednesday Forest slug

Getting some things done

Remember me talking about "Getting Things Done"? Well, I used what I could find on the internet about the nuts and bolts of David Allen's GTD system, without having a printed book before me, and cleaned up my e-mail boxes both at work and at home. I think I found the electronic equivalent of the kitchen sink ! David Allen offers some free PDFs at his website (you do have to register as a buying customer, but it's a formality), so I downloaded those that have to do with sorting the inbox, i.e. the flow charts, otherwise known as "processing and organizing". When I say it's like the kitchen sink , what I mean is that once you get a spot totally free from clutter, it becomes an air hole, a place to pop up to catch a good breath while you're working on other areas, and a place that you can be consistent about. Getting my inbox to zero (i.e. totally empty) removed some of the overwhelm I'd been experiencing both at home and at work. Much like di

Wordless Wednesday - Sings of spring

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Wordless Wednesday MÃ¥ltrost / Song Thrush

Finding God in the next person you meet - Part 2

Two years ago, I wrote a post about my exploration of Mahatma Gandhi's quote , "If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further." I haven't been exploring that concept lately, but today decided to try again. As before, I added to my affirmative set-up for the day with a slight change in wording: "…and teach me to find God in everyone I meet today." Now, I didn't have the exact same experience as the first time I tried it, but I did end up having a lovely day. I found myself observing how pleasant other people were. I noticed I was more forthcoming and helpful. Observing the crazy hair-do of a store clerk made me only wonder how the cut was done, not whether or not it was attractive; in other words, I did not judge. The best part about this business about finding God is that it always removes or dampens that side of me that is critical, cynical, stand-offish, selfish. I have to say that I've enjoye

A bit of tech: URL shorteners

My reading takes me through various links and sublinks and cups of coffee, and has led me to some information and a wee moment of a-ha which I think is important enough to share. The information pertains to URL shorteners, the service offered by sites like TinyURL , MakeAShorterLink or budURL . These services are for those times you want to share a long, hairy link with someone, without risking it being ruined by a mandatory line break. However, this was a problem for older e-mail and news programs which would have a fixed line length. Now the problem seems to be the URL shortener itself. Let me quote Joshua Schachter, whose post on URL shorteners inspired me: [T]he biggest burden falls on the clicker, the person who follows the links. The extra layer of indirection slows down browsing with additional DNS lookups and server hits. A new and potentially unreliable middleman now sits between the link and its destination. And the long-term archivability of the hyperlink now depends o

Wordless Wednesday - Shadowed

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Wordless Wednesday

Friday with a tag

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I found this (and the blog title) at Protege’s . The rules are: 1. Respond and rework: Answer the questions on your blog. Replace one question you dislike with a question of your own invention. Add a question of your own. 2. Tag eight other people. (Optional) Here goes: 1) What is (are) your current obsession(s)? I have no obsessions. I bore too easily to stick to one thing that much. 2) What do you see outside your window? This (sorry about the reflections in the window I was looking out): 3) Do you nap a lot? What's a nap? 4) Who was the last person you hugged? Co-worker E as we wished each other a happy Easter holiday. 5) Which animal would you be? I'm in the mood for turtle. I'm in the mood for taking long, slow breaths. 6) What’s for dinner? Double cheeseburger and onion rings. 7) What was the last thing you bought? See 6. 8) What are you listening to right now? Robbie Williams' greatest hits. Happens to be the last thing I bought on iTunes Sto

Wordless Wednesday - Willow

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Wordless Wednesday