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More Lessons from "The One Thing You Need to Know"
The One Thing You Need to Know...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success , by Marcus Buckingham (Free...
sursumcorda, 16 December 2007 |
Lessons from "The One Thing You Need to Know"
The One Thing You Need to Know...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success , by Marcus Buckingham (Free...
Kramer vs. Kramer
I just posted my complaint that the movies are getting weirder and less enjoyable now that we've reached the last quarter of the...
The Deer Hunter
Our Academy Award "Best Picture" quest is getting squirrelier as we move into more modern times. (Okay, so the 70s...
The Sacred Romance
Some dear friends I respect recommended “The Sacred Romance” and I started it without looking at the authors (a bad habit...
Randomness with Dr. Plume
I'm not going home for the holidays and I still have the "I don't want to do my work" blues. While researching why men's...
An Even Better Weekend (Dec. 8-9)
In an attempt to learn to write concisely (or at least not using as much time) I’m writing this before I run to class. ...
A Good Week (Dec. 4-7)
I am happy to report that I am no longer in a bad mood and have found myself closer to getting the ‘no reason happies’...
Preparing for Christmas
I put in a vote for Christmas to be not on the 26th, but later instead I have extracted this, completely out of context, from...
Great Circle Mapper
I found this great site while procrastinating doing research for our Christmas letter and want to share it. Did you ever want to...
Grandma Knows Best (Of Course)
Lemon and honey as a cold remedy? I don't know about the lemon, but a new study showed plain honey to be more effective (and...
Why Is It Always Bad News?
I normally don't mind that most news stories are bad news. After all, the different, the unusual, that which makes...
It’s Advent.
Diana gave a children’s ‘sermon’ on Advent and the church advent wreath that worked well. I still hold to...
The True Story of Einstein
Like the tapioca story, the story of Einstein sailing in the Connecticut river where my father’s side of the family has been...
The First Sunday of Advent
Hooray! I love Advent! And I love being home at our church where the season is recognized in all its glory, and we don't...
Computer Voodoo
Today our computer network stopped working. I needed to access a file on our laptop from our Windows 98 machine. ...
December 1, 2007
I have homework I don’t want to do so I spent some time finding old friends on Facebook and now I’m writing an update....
A Lovely Day
I very much enjoyed today and didn’t let any woes bother me. I enjoyed each activity and am not panicked about...
Random Information about Me
As Smithical well knows (we all laughed when she tagged me), I find most memes silly, so I'm breaking the rules by breaking the...
Back to Blogging
I've much to write about, but since I just returned from a lovely Thanksgiving+ visit with family and friends, and had a full day's...
Mid-Week Update: Teaching what I’ve never learned,...
Having spent far too much time trying to decipher my notation homework I decided to write a brief update since I’m not hurling...
Practicing helps?
For various reasons I had two hours of classes canceled yesterday, today, and tomorrow. By some strange coincidence I got...
Life is Crazy (November 12-25)
It really is. I don’t think I’ve ever been on the run for so long, though I’m definitely had more stress...
Happy Fourth Birthday, Jonathan!
As you probably noticed by the lack of updates, I’m either doing better with the homesickness, very busy, or both. ...
Veterans Day
It’s so easy for me to be completely out of touch with American news and customs while keeping busy here in Europe but I was...