In December, following up on an offer by coach Dave Kaiser, I took the Clifton StrengthsFinder online test. Dave recommended the $9.99 version that gives you your top 5 strengths out of a menu of 34. The StrengthsFinder is a 100+ item test that purportedly feeds back those parts of your personality that most dominate …
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Furlough Diary – Day 10
I work for a government contractor, and we were sent home at 11:30am on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The company (rather generously, believe it or not) covered everyone’s hours that week. This week, we’re taking mandatory vacation. No indication yet what next week’s plan is.
Pretty much a perfick day
Up early and walked down to Patti’s house, where we carpooled to the Creative Entrepreneur Expo 2013, sponsored by the Durham Arts Council. When I first saw the email advertising this half-day workshop, I thought, “No. I’m not a ‘creative,’ and I am not selling any services to creatives. So there.” But then Patti forwarded …
“My whole life is a coping strategy.”
While seeing my physical therapist the other night, he asked if I liked my eating habits (an odd way to ask the question, but it got me thinking) and I babbled for a few minutes about the little things I’ve picked up on eating, hunger, diets, and the like. I told him about how I …
On realizing when my vacation started
December has been an unusually stressful month this year, what with jury duty, a rather punishing work schedule, and the usual Christmas shenanigans.
“Merry Christmas from the Kensingtons”
My friend, the novelist Lewis Shiner, has a new Christmas short story up on the Subterranean Press site. It’s titled “Merry Christmas from the Kensingtons” and is Lew’s own Christmas ghost story — particularly the ghosts of Christmases past as lived out in a series of annual family photo postcards. It’s a haunting story, and …
On hitting 50 (blog posts, that is)
Inspired by Shannon’s example, I decided to forge ahead and write M-F blog posts for 10 weeks. And rather remarkably, to me, I hit that goal without missing a day or calling for a do-over. Last Friday I posted my 50th entry.
If you were born on this day…
From today’s News & Observer’s Horoscopes by Jeradine Saunders: LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are perched on the brink of success. Have faith that precious plans for the future are viable even when it seems that core values are briefly opposed by others. Woo! It continues: IF SEPTEMBER 24 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: You have the power to …
Progress Report: But is it fun?
At a recent mastermind meeting, my fellow blogger Mike Uhl asked what I felt about having crossed the halfway point of writing 50 M-F blog posts. Did I feel great about accomplishing that milestone? Was I having fun doing this thing? I’ve always had a tough time with “fun.”
Sad necessities and the comfort zone
For many years, I’ve taken shameful (or shameless) advantage of Top Shelf’s annual $3 web sale of comics and graphic novels from their catalog. Not everything is $3, of course — but a large number of selected items from their catalog are remarkably discounted, with some inventory they’ve never been able to shift cut down to …
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