I was feeling very positive on Friday; Never before has my path seemed so clear, with so many things within my grasp. It was thus with great confidence I predicted a landmark productive weekend. The power I felt on Friday, however, began to resemble more a rolling blackout by Saturday, followed by grid failure as [...]
It’s the second Groundhog’s Day Resolution Review Day of 2007! Since the last review day, I’ve made some progress on my three personal resolutions. Here’s what they are again: Commit to Deriving Income from Writing and Making Stuff Build Sustainable Social Networks Sell a Product This Year So what has been accomplished in the month-and-one-day [...]
This morning I had a few interesting insights, which I feel compelled to share: Insight #1: I work better if I document as I go. It is how I focus. I have been thinking that focus is some mystical internal state that I had to achieve as a form of enlightened awareness. Actually, that’s probably [...]
One Month and One Day ago, I wrote about starting up Ground Hog’s Day Resolutions, which are like New Year’s Resolutions except they start on Ground Hog’s Day, after you’ve had a chance to get the year started and get yourself put back together after another crazy holiday season. Because of the interesting 1/1 (Jan [...]
Groundhog Day is one of my favorite holidays, though calling it a “holiday” may be a stretch for most people. Last year I marked the day by reading up on its history, and discovered it is actually quite an old holiday dating back to Roman times. Also, the whole prediction of “six more weeks of [...]
I’ve been sucked into NBC’s show Heroes, which you can currently watch online from the very beginning if you’re willing to sit through 30 second commercials every 10 minutes. The general premise is that there are a bunch of ordinary people with everyday problems who discover they have incredible powers. Some use this knowledge to [...]
Dad went home yesterday, and the house has been feeling pretty empty without him here. Since he was visiting for six weeks, I got used to him behind around the house even if we weren’t talking. It was a nice feeling. Today has been a day of solitude, focused on the work that had magically [...]

