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Love the life you have, with the stuff you have, and try to improve it a little bit each day.
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Take pictures of everything.
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Tell your friends and family that you love them.
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Talk to random strangers, connect with people, even just for a few minutes. You may brighten their day, and yours.
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Do something you are scared to do. Start small and work up to “No Fucking Way, I’m doing that” kind of stuff.
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Declutter both physically and mentally. Give something away. Clean up that pile of papers on your desk.
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Read a book with your phone on silent.
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If you want to buy something, put it in your cart and wait a day or two. Then, ask yourself, Will this still be useful in three months? Will this bring happiness? Is this thing worth going to work for?
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You can skip the pursuit of happiness altogether and just be happy.
The Internet Baffles Me Sometimes
This morning, both my microblog blogs were down for an hour. But my two testing microblog blogs were up and running. I checked Hover, my domain provider, and they had 100% uptime with no issues. Microblog showed no problems. But we are back now after an hour or so. Who knows 🤔
Update: 12/25/2025
And all has been made clear. This explains everything above.
As they say, “It’s always DNS.”
Let's Talk Email
Let’s Talk Email - Having a Bulletproof Email System. Over the past week or so, I’ve been researching, planning, and implementing a whole new approach to email.
📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 2: Cozy
Taken at a local zoo a few years ago. Little one looks pretty cozy.
Remembering The Family Kitchen Phone
Tell me you had a kitchen phone with a super-long, curly cord so you could stretch it into the next room for some privacy without telling me…
What a little piece of nostalgia. I love this thing.
Bonus points if the kitchen phone was the only phone in the house. Super Bonus points if you had to deal with a party line.
If you want one, go here and sign up for back-in-stock alerts.
AppleTV Flashback to First Gen Model A1218 circa March 2007
AppleTV Flashback to First Gen Model A1218 circa March 2007
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Space Travel Posters
NASA offers an impressive collection of space travel posters and wallpapers.
I really enjoyed this documentary. If you even have a small adventurous bone in your body, you’ll enjoy it.
I had a difficult time finding it online, but was eventually able to rent/purchase it through Vimeo.
Scratch Pad Thoughts
** None of these cornerstone ideas are truly my own; I’ve read/seen them before, thought about them, changed the wording to fit my life. Try to do the same, make them your own. Write your own versions and look at them daily for a few weeks over coffee. Tweak, read, think, tweak again until they are just right for you.
Finished reading: A Marriage At Sea by Sophie Elmhirst 📚
Really enjoyed the story, if you like survival stories, you’ll like this one.
