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Slinking back in?
Not sure I'll be able to really go back to posting, even if I make it a New Year's Resolution, but I'm thinking of my blogFriends and glad that you post so I can keep up with you. I suspect blogging is dead, with everyone having moved on to Facebook and other media, but maybe it's just going to limp along forever, as these things do ( Read more... ) -
Inspiration
Various inspirational quotes and thoughts:
From the Nike campaign in the movie What Women Want:
You don't stand in front of a mirror before a run and wonder what the road will think of your outfit. You don't have to listen to its jokes and pretend they're funny in order to run on it. It would not be easier to run if you dressed sexier. The road doesn ( Read more... ) -
Insurance
I have to choose between traditional (and very good) insurance vs a high deductible health insurance plan by tomorrow. It would be a no-brainer except that we will have to shell out approximately $100 per month for the traditional plan while the high deductible plan comes with a health savings account (HSA) into which $100 per month will be ( Read more... ) -
Analogies
This weekend it came up that my mother had smoked and drank alcohol while she was pregnant. She said, "It's hard for people to imagine that they didn't know then that smoking was bad for you, but they didn't think it was a big deal!" We started talking about how there are all kinds of things that happen and we don't find out until later that they' ( Read more... ) -
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The cold and rain are making me crave sweet carby goodness. I've spent a surprising amount of today wishing I could have cinnamon toast. Salad and tomato soup, even very good tomato soup, are not the same.
The Telegraph published a wonderful article on luckiness. Luckiness appears to be largely defined as "open to opportunity" which you might ( Read more... ) -
Headed back west
I can't even keep track of my trips anymore. I thought this was the last one, but that's because I keep forgetting that next weekend I have to go to Atlanta. But then I'm done until at least September and maybe early October. Astonishingly, I might actually be tired of traveling.
This was a long week. All days spent in a workshop, cramming my head ( Read more... ) -
It's never too late
I don't have a long list of things I want to do before I die, or at least not a long list that I'm aware of. I'd like to go to Australia and France. I'd like to see computer science be a standard high school course. ( And I'd like to get a PhD. ) -
Possible Navel-gazing Here
There are things I only talk about when asked. I will talk about them openly and tell you whatever you'd like to know, but you have to ask ( Read more... ) -
In NY
Last week was crazier than usual. I feel like I always post saying how busy I am, but it's always the first thing that occurs to me. It's a major reason why I rarely post ( Read more... ) -
Home for now
This sat open all day yesterday and even though it isn't finished, I'm just posting anyway...
I still haven't totally made time to think through my visit to Chattanooga, but overall it was good. In some ways it was the worst ever, but in other ways it was great. Perhaps the highest point wasn't at the conference at all but was on Saturday morning ( Read more... )