An Auspicious Beginning
My Ford Econoline shut down because the gyros sensed a rollover in progress – in my driveway – and I’m sure Ford will be happy to let me pay them to fix it. On top of that I have water damage…
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Unpack Your Bags
It is easy to identify with the idea of having and maximizing a set of personal strengths, It takes more work to really identify those strengths and how you are best able to make use of them.
Selling Yourself
I’m probably a decade late in actually reading the Cluetrain Manifesto for all I had heard about it for most of that decade that I have been not reading it. In the process I certainly picked up on the message…
Adventures at Grandma’s
Enoch wanted to go for a ride tonight so we decided to go down to Grandma Colette’s house to visit and harvest some things from our garden. While we were there Enoch picked up something white from the ground and…
Welcome Ezra
I have to admit that this was published well after the fact so I have no pictures handy to add and I am going to dispense with the statistics for now. Despite the sparseness of this post I did want…
Working to My Strengths
My journey from mindless cubicle jockey to engaged employee. The journey was shorter than I had expected it to be and the destination was different than I imagined.
Conference Traditions
This morning as I went to the temple I began to wonder if I was in the middle of a common conference tradition of going to the temple to mentally prepare for General Conference (or to make up for the…
Free Google+ Invites (no strings attached)
When Google+ started there were a lot more people wanting to get in than there were openings—it reminded me a lot of the launch of Gmail in that way. One big difference for me was that I got an account…
Growing Children
Last night Savannah asked me what time I went out weeding in the mornings. I told her 6:00 and apparently she set her alarm for 6:30 this morning so she could join me. When she came out I was still…
Best Car Accident Ever
photo credit: mfhiatt Last month as I was leaving the South Davis Recreation Center I got bumped by a young driver as I was exiting the parking lot. Normally that is not the kind of thing I would write about…