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Life is but a Vapor
November 13th, 2007
Speaking of wasting time, this powerful eleven minute message by Michael Billings (recently deceased) is a reminder for us to not waste our life. Listen
Spending (Wasting) Time to Save Time
November 12th, 2007
“One freelancer’s quest to streamline his life by optimizing daily his Google homepage is an exercise in efficient time-wasting.” This is so true. I find myself easily getting distracted and ending up wasting my time online. It reminds me of the concept of spending money to save money. Hit the read link below to read [...]
Here’s What I’ve Been Doing
November 6th, 2007
Last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning I ran the soundboard and made sure that all things technical was taken care of for a three-day seminar, with Dad who was assisting me. That took up pretty much all of those days with an hour driving time each way, and the seminar being all day. So I’m [...]
What’s Your Learning Style?
July 25th, 2007
I found this survey and it was right on target about my learning style… http://www.metamath.com/lsweb/dvclearn.htm The results of Jordan Cronin’s learning inventory are: Visual/Nonverbal 30 Visual/Verbal 36 Auditory 10 Kinesthetic 20 Your primary learning style is: The Visual/ Verbal Learning Style You learn best when information is presented visually and in a written language format. [...]
Today and My Birthday – Neat facts I’d like to share with you.
May 22nd, 2007
Today is May the twenty-second. Today is my birthday. Today I discovered something… I was born on May 22 (1990) which happens to be a special day, in my opinion, for several reasons. It’s a national holiday – Unknown to me until today. It seems that on May 22, 1819, the steamship The Savannah set [...]
Aliens and Exponents
April 30th, 2007
Sometimes I am impressed by how sharp/intelligent my youngest brother (Jadon – 8 y/o) is. Take last night for example. I had just climbed into my bunk-bed (all the boys (Jared, Jadon, and I) share a bedroom), and we got to talking a little bit. Somehow, we got to talking about aliens and the possibility [...]
The James and Hope Gallagher family has moved…
December 19th, 2006
(To keep it short because I don’t have much time….) Saturday, Dad and I (along with several other people)helped the Gallagher’s move . Here are a couple of highlights: I got a lot of practice backing-up our trailer (and got much better!). Our trailer tire blew-out. And we were able to get a new tire [...]
Recent Happenings…
November 21st, 2006
A lot has happened since I posted last: – Last Saturday, when we (Jared, Jadon, Dad, and I) were playing soccer, Jared and Dad ran into each other and we thought he might have fractured/broken his collar (clavicle) bone, but thankfully he only badly bruised it… Yesterday was Dad’s birthday and his Blackberry decided to [...]