the first thing I have to do is unearth the slicer from the attic so I can cut full sheets of paper down to halves. Since it’s not a real quality sort of thing, I’ll only be able to do a few sheets (like less than 5 probably) at a time. The year will no doubt be over before I get stuff printed! I might see if I can pick up or order some half-sheets instead….
Before I went back to work (June of 2000), I kept my bits n pieces of stuff in the computer. Worked okay if not being an ideal solution: always had to print stuff out (lists, etc.) if I needed something “portable”. Then when I was working full-time again, the “in the computer” non-solution was just not workable: I never knew what list I would need in town (worked an 80 mile round trip from home) and my non-techie husband could NOT be asked to “look it up real quick” (this is the man who can’t reset a digital watch, or the satellite-dish tv, or find the “on” button on the computer….)
So I discovered paper planners, Franklin Covey in particular. A lot of what’s going on in the F-C stuff is just silly and useless, but the framework was ideal - for the way I was living until October of 2004 (I retired again the end of that month). Then it was back to trying to keep pieces parts of information in the computer ( I HATE things like Palms - talk about a silly techie non-solution! Sheesh….) It’s still not really a workable mode of operation.
Then I discovered (totally by accident, from a link from a link from a blog from a post on wordpress.org/support no less!) Doug Johnston’s D*I*Y Paper Planner . This is perfect. It’s so customizable it’s incredible. AND IT’S FREE - released under the CCL….
Go get your own. Perfectomundo…. Thanks, Doug!
and I don’t mean the “gremlin in the machine” either….
It took me a while to get on the blog bandwagon. I had so much else going on it seemed like one thing too many to mess with. Then I quit working and got all my sites and business caught up, and had time to think about blogging again. Started playing with WordPress. Set up this place, found out about the theme switcher (boy, THAT is the most fun I’ve had online in YEARS!), started using P O V as a “spout off” that husband doesn’t have to listen to (keeps life a bit calmer, that way)…. and now, suddenly I have ideas for a variety of blogs - some of them based on nifty themes (like Taft - which doesn’t “fit” well on a normal page but would be perfect for a couple of other things….), and some of them just out of the air between my ears.
Of course, the main thing about blogs is “if you have them you must fill them”. Since I write, and since I have not only an extremely fertile imagination, but also a vast vocabulary and an infinite number of “Points Of View” (*laughing*), filling them doesn’t strike me as being problematic….
More on this as we (me n’ the blogs) progress….
leaves a VERY great deal to be desired as I believe I’ve noted in the past. But every once in a while, a true gem appears at least briefly (rather like Halley’s Comet, actually….)
In this single instance, I’m referring to an ad for generic (I assume) HDTV, for which I have absolutely no use since I don’t watch tv at all. This is the ad which follows a boy from his beginnings in the 50s (apparently) through today, from boy to youth to young man, to military duty, to marriage, children, childrens’ growing up and older to grandparenting. It’s memorable, and priceless - especially for one who grew up and into and through all those eras…. PRICELESS. I suggest you catch it if you haven’t seen it, before it fades into the rest of the dreck out there….
I would love to have it on a dvd - to show my granddaughters one of these days. No - they haven’t seen it. They live in Germany and their tv is extremely circumscribed….
April Fools’ Day (even though I generally refer to it as “the Wild Hunt” instead!) Just not my thing…. anyway, now that it’s another month already I’ve been thinking again about “how time flies”. And it does - the older you get the faster too. Wonder whatever happened to the theories from the 60s which postulated time as a stream like water, you could step into and out of it at will, and someone would eventually come up with a viable time-machine? Washed away in the river, I’ve no doubt!
