it can be hilarious, or it can be pathetic. Today, at the CES conference, it was a little of both.

The Gizmodo bloggers got their hands on some TV-B- Gone remotes, and used their power for the Dark Side, switching off TV screens all over the place.

Some people thought that the video was funny, but I could only think of three things:

1. Such a small thing can bring stuff crashing to a halt (covering up the IR receiver on the TVs would have prevented it, I'm sure presenters considered it a lesson learned for the future).

2. Bloggers have enough of a problem being considered 'real' journalists, this lack of professionalism didn't help.

3. Good luck getting credentials to other conferences!!

I just couldn't resist…

I Will Not Throw Paper Airplanes In Class

It's too bad that it wasn't available when I was a child, lol!!

(Although, the teacher should have let him off for original thinking, roflol!!)

I never made an announcement about it, but I removed the 'nofollow' tag from my templates sometime in October. SO, if you leave a comment with your URL, the spiders will follow it. (And that's on ALL my blogs... see the sidebar)



Also, regular commenters will notice that their blogs are under "Other Blogs I Like" in the sidebar :-).

Back to your regularly scheduled programming…

I spent the day thinking about my blogs, watching the children play outside (we've got warm weather again), and trying not to think about the 101 things that I want to get accomplished in the next 1001 days (which end on October 9, 2010).

I have 24 things listed, some of them terribly mundane.

But, I am confident, as I think more about this, and get into the spirit of the idea, that I will come up with 77 more items. I may have to set a date to finish the list by… and then, reset the clock.

How are you guys doing with your list?

Wow!

In appreciation for the chance to start over in 2008, many of us make resolutions about the things that we will or will not do in the New Year.

However, what if 365 days is simply not enough time to get it all done?

Never fear, Gentle Reader, I have discovered a site that addresses the problem with elegance:

Day Zero - The Home of the 101 Things in 1001 Days Project

I've started working on my list of 101 items... how about you?

For the past week or so, something (not sure what) has been telling me that I need a new writing journal. My old writing journal still has more than half of its pages available for my inspired prose [g], so when I go into the store, I see the journals (I prefer Moleskeins), and I say to myself, "Why do I feel like I need to buy one of these?"

No one answers me (my brain is like that, sometimes), so I chalk it up to my notebook fetish, and leave the notebook at the store.

A day or so later, while I am at my computer, I think, $%^&! I need that notebook for ___ ... I *have* to remember to get it, the next time that I am out!! (I still don't remember what I need this notebook for, but that is probably because I am racking my brain, trying to remember.)

So, today, while I was out, I made a special trip to the nearest big town, 35 miles away, to get the stupid notebook that I wanted, but couldn't remember why (grr!).

Ok, so now I'm in the store... and they don't have the notebook. They have larger versions, and smaller versions, but not the notebook that I'm looking for. (Apparently, I'm not the only journaler in this area, although two weeks ago, the shelves runneth over with notebooks of every style, size, and color.)

No purchase there. So, I head over to the store on the other side of town, because they recently opened, and their shelves are full of beautiful notebooks, different from the first store, but equally as nice.

And their shelves were in worse shape than the first store!!!

So, I drove home, dejected. I had failed in my task, but learned a valuable lesson:

Beautiful notebooks sell out fast! Buy early!

Today, at the ranch...

After getting my hair done at the local beauty parlor, I stopped in at Fred's, to buy some hair care supplies.

When I was checking out, the cashier asked me if I did hair for a living. Surprised, I didn't realize why she was asking me that, until I looked down on the conveyor belt and saw the several sets of combs and rubber hair bands that I had purchased. Laughing, I explained that I had a bunch of girls.

Why is it, no matter how many combs and brushes you buy, when it is time to do hair, there are none to be found? I suspect that the combs, brushes and hair accessories all go to the same place that socks go when they disappear from the dryer.

Or else, my daughters, who have sensitive scalps, are quietly throwing them away at their earliest convenience.

I may have to implement security procedures for the hair supplies.

Dang! First the Patriot Act, and now this... is there no place that is free from security concerns?!?

At Meta Watershed, they've put together the best LOL cats of 2007.
My favorite is this one:

Christine Kane, in her blog, discusses the importance of keeping delight in your life.

Here's a clip:

"When you adopt obsession, you require hard hits of big things to wake up the you that has become numb. It’s as if food has to be spicier, saltier, and fattier. Music has to be louder and faster. Moments need to be “events” to get you to notice them. It takes more flash to feel good. It takes more bling to be present."

This is so true... and it is very important to remember to enjoy the small pleasures, as well as the large ones. Let's face it, most of us are not going to win the lottery, or win on a reality TV show, or do something else to make us rich and/or famous. And that's okay.

However, everyone's life has opportunities to enjoy the richness of life, even on a modest budget. And when you enjoy your life, there's more of it to enjoy.

Go to Christine's site, and read the rest of the article!!

and, so far, so good.

Today was another quiet day, relaxing and enjoyable.

The quiet before the storm.

Tomorrow, it's back to work, back to life as normal, and I get to deal with all the people working on their newly-minted resolutions... but, to be fair, they get to deal with me, working on mine [evil grin]!

Steven Barnes says that if you want to be great at something, you have to put in just as much work and learning as if you were getting an MBA. Which makes perfect sense. So, depending on how much work you put in each and every day, determines how long it will take you to become great. A little bit every day = longer time becoming great. A larger amount = shortened time becoming great, etc.

Of course, this assumes that the work is quality.