Journal
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What Have I Done?
I have made a mess of things while trying to simplify. I let a domain name expire that also had a custom email address attached to it and according to my domain registrar, lost both to a third party who scooped up that domain name…
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The Art Of Un-Noticing
One of my favorite writers, Rob Walker, has a brilliant book on my shelves (thanks, Mom) titled “The Art Of Noticing: 131 ways to spark creativity, find inspiration and discover joy in the everyday.” He also has an excellent weekly newsletter I subscribe to in…
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Human Feeders
I think it was Kleon who used the phrase “human bird feeders” to describe those places that attract and feed us. A Little Free Library certainly counts as a feeding place. We ventured out for some geocaching after lunch today and had a 2-for-1 special…
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You’ve Been Served
Now that I am back home for a bit I can finally play around and setup the Mac Mini desktop computer as a standalone file server. “Minnie” is all setup to host and share any number of photos, music, videos and documents to any of…
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Death Before Inadequacy
“Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.” — Bertolt Brecht “Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.” – Cesare Pavese
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Two Essential Apps
Day One- Over the previous ten years I have enjoyed using this journaling app and just re-subscribed. I appreciate the attention to logging every detail that may be used in context with, well, the text I input. Details such as the music I was listening…
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Pause, Stop, Off.
It is time for us to create a “television escape club” and it is past time to do whatever we want. During my work travels for the past 15 weeks, I rarely streamed any movies or shows. The hotel televisions gathered dust and I ignored…
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Now What?
My first day back from work travel has already been a pretty full day. Lately, when these precious unscheduled hours present themselves, I usually suffer from paralysis of choice in deciding how to fill them. Hmm, what can I do… Read and nap. Or it’s…