A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
“How do we steal traffic from Google’s market share?”
“What if we called our search engine a chatbot? Oh! An AI Chatbot.”
“Ok. With ads?”
“No! We will limit functionality in the free version and charge $20/mth for access to our beta version. They will pay to test our software!”
I actually got on the rowing machine. I was interrupted so it wasn’t as long as intended but it was something. It was a start!
Glad you asked. It didn’t. Hold me accountable. I do have an 8 mile hike planned for Saturday.
I’ve been at this for decades and I still don’t have an answer to that question asked of every 8 year old.
Quit asking people what they want to be when they grown up. Quit trying to make them define their life purpose. Instead, ask them what do they want to do. If money were no object, what would you be doing with your time right now?
In my twenties, I enjoyed exercising. I would wake at 4am and be at Court South at 5am with the morning crowd waiting for the doors to open. I’d use the dry sauna, stretch, run the track, use the free weights, sometimes swim and other times play racquetball then finish in the steam-room and possibly ride my bike to work. I never felt better. Then life got in the way.
I also used to stretch 20-30 minutes in the morning and again in the evenings. I loved my flexibility. At one point, I gave many of my friends and family a Go set and a stretching book by Bob Anderson which was basically the only stretching book at the time because yoga had not taken off and there was no yoga section in the bookstores.
I lament letting myself go. So tomorrow, April 12, 2023, I begin a journey to get in shape. I invite your commentary and suggestions knowing that I am very limited on time and regularly do not have access to a car. I do have access to a rowing machine and a chest strap heart rate monitor. Let’s get me to drop 20 to 30 pounds, add on muscle and tone, and make my body lean again.
It is 8:24pm. I have 3 hours of computer work left to do. I have to cook dinner. And there is a third thing I am completely forgetting. This is why you see “cooking at midnight” posts of Facebook.
Me. I am all my obstacles.
We have a young mother who walks in front of our house with her stroller several times a day. Annie, the golden retriever, always barks at her.
This morning I let the dog out for a walk, off leash, and just happened to go out in the yard with her. I see stroller mom approaching so I begin to place myself between stroller mom and Annie. And I say, “Don’t you do it.” I see a gleam in Annie’s eye and assume she is about to bolt so I quicken my step, slip on the grass, land palm down on our gravel driveway and roll onto my back as I complete my fall. Then a sweet voice says, “Are you okay?” And I reply, “Yup. She’s going to come visit you.”
Annie instead of running in a scary charge as normal hesitantly walks toward stroller mom while glancing my way then comes back to me.
The hardest part about making mistakes is the repetition.
Student: I’ve given all I have to give.
Master: What will you do now?
Clearly my life needs more scotch.
When I stated that I will be nose down in work today, I was not issuing you a challenge. You can back off a little and allow me to get things done. Thank you.
Well, I’d planned on doing 8 hours of work between 8pm and midnight. I also had 2-4 hours of a personal project to do in that time. And cook dinner. And there were about 3 hours of other things I’m not even listing. But of course, a client site decided to just quit working so instead of doing anything I planned for this evening, I’ve been scratching my head of a very unusual problem. But I think I’ve gotten to the bottom of it. Now to actually fix it.
Every time Tim Burchett sends a tweet, I email him a response. Ok, not every time, but as frequently as time permits.
I am a constituent of Tim Burchett and want him to stop embarrassing Tennessee. On March 31, 2023 at 12:12pm Mr. Burchett tweeted “Americans of any political party should be scared. The rule of law doesn’t exist when a former President is indicted like this. Bragg made his intentions clear before he was in the DA’s office- and this will take a toll on our country.”
Mr. Burchett is wrong! The rule of law exists because no one person stands above the law and a criminal like Donald Trump must be held accountable for his illegal activities. The reason we should be scared is that people such as Mr. Burchett work in positions of power within our government while clearly not understanding his own responsibilities. What is scary is that Mr. Burchett lacks the moral integrity to see to it that the criminals of the previous administration are prosecuted including the January insurrectionists which includes Mr. Burchett.
