October 2009

Dad’s Last Days

October 30, 2009

When I was stationed at Fort Hood my parents came to visit me. During their retirement years they traveled extensively. They owned a thirty one foot long Airstream travel trailer and normally were either doing something with their caravan club or with square dancing. Both of those were staples of my teen years. On this [...]

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Buy a new car, lose a house in the process

October 30, 2009

I had a discussion with my 18 year old daughter about cars. This was sort of like talking to a priest about sex. Except a priest, a really astute one, will have at least a basic understanding of the concept, mechanics and potential outcomes. The conversation didn’t really have much to do with cars so [...]

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Personal Transformation and Chasing Your Dreams

October 27, 2009

A well thought out plan is a good thing, but the old saying goes that the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. (to paraphrase Robert Burns) So is it better to go off half cocked or to not take action? Not taking action is not going to get you results. That [...]

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Drive Time Times Two

October 26, 2009

I was teaching my youngest daughter Stephanie (please call me Steph – old habits die hard) how to drive stick-shift. She decided she wanted to learn and she went out, with my guidance, and bought a car with a manual transmission. Nice car, 2000 Hyundai Elantra with fairly low miles. I am also teaching my [...]

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Susan Clark Interview

October 23, 2009

Today on the Get Inspired! Project we had an interview with Susan Clark of “heartspark” and the one comment she made struck me and inspired me to write a post. Obviously if you’ve read any of my posts lately you realize that all the interviews are striking me and making me re-assess myself on many [...]

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Cirque Du Soleil

October 20, 2009

Interesting day yesterday, unusual and long. To backtrack a bit; I got a call Sunday night to work at the Sovereign Center loading in Cirque Du Soleil. That was unusual. Never happened before, but I know the President of the local stagehands union and she put in the word for me, knowing I was on [...]

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Adding Light to the World..?

October 18, 2009

is that title to grandiose? It’s my hope that it is true, so I will leave it. I think back to a couple months ago when Toni first proposed the Get Inspired! Project. The initial thought came from going to see the movie Julie and Julia and focused on inspiration. We all thought we could [...]

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Against a Wall, of sorts

October 15, 2009

I have backdoor information on my younger two kids. They are doing things that I was doing while in high school. emphasize the high in high school. Now what do you do about that? If I crack down, I know that the older of the two would probably move out (couldn’t tell you how or [...]

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Social Network Hierarchy

October 13, 2009

Can you be judged by the social network that you prefer? Apparently yes. The more money you make in a year the more likely you are to be seen on Twitter.  Or does it work the other way around? Being seen on Twitter actually raises your annual income! It might not be totally far fetched. [...]

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