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Some Random Thoughts

Monday, August 16th, 2010

I’m kind of brain fried after writing all weekend, so instead of trying to write a long, cohesive post, I’ll just mention a few random things.

–Heroes come in all walks of life. I overheard a conversation on Friday between my boss and another engineer. They were both talking about the storm and how they got up and turned on the weather report so they’d know whether or not they’d need to wake their families and have them move to the basement. I thought that was pretty damn awesome. I’m going to have to put something like this in one of my books. This is the quiet, day to day stuff that really counts when it comes to relationships and families.

–Conversation with my dad tonight that made me crazy:

I open the refrigerator door and the butter rolls out and onto the floor. I mutter a curse, pick it up and put it back in the fridge.

My dad asks why I’m swearing. I tell him the butter fell on the floor. And he honest to God asked me if I’d picked it up. ::banging head against wall::

No, Dad, I left it on the floor. Who even asks a question like that?

–The pitcher for the Twins today had a no hitter through 7 innings. The manager pulled him out and put a reliever out in the 8th. If I were that pitcher, I’d be really angry. Pitching a no-hitter is maybe a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The manager shouldn’t have taken that achievement away from him. Send him out, and if he gives up a hit, then pull him. This man will spend the rest of his life wondering what if? That’s a pretty cruel thing to leave someone with.

–The WordPress For Dummies book did help me a fair amount. Most of it was a little simple for me, but it did hit things I didn’t know. Overall, I’d rate the book helpful, and if you’re new to WordPress, very helpful.

Hope you all have a great week!

Random, Totally Random

Friday, December 5th, 2008

I needed a blog topic for tonight and was getting desperate. I searched news headlines for articles I could maybe talk about about, but nothing grabbed me. Then I thought, well, maybe I’ll head over to Google and search for someone who has suggestions about interesting blog topics. That was no help. My next idea was to use the “I feel Lucky” button on Google. For some reason, I thought it would take me to a random website, but unfortunately that isn’t what it does. It takes you to the first website listed in your search results. Pfft. That wasn’t what I was looking for.

Then I googled “random website” and lo and behold, there are sites out there that do just that–take one to a random website. The first one I found is called Random Website Dot Com and the other was Memory Cloud/Random Website Generator.

In my exploration for a topic, I was taken to a website with wallpapers–some cool ones, an animal rights group website, zombie nation, and project censored, the news that didn’t make the news. Some of these were meh, and others were interesting and I’ve bookmarked them to explore later. But while I did find some cool stuff, I still had no blog topic. :-(

Then I was taken to the Inspirational Quotes website. Now this is something I can go with. I love inspirational quotes. So my quote of the day is:

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.

~Henry David Thoreau

Is that cool or what? To me, what he’s saying is that the dreamer should do more than merely dream. He’s saying that the dreamer should do the work necessary to make his/her dreams come true. I totally believe that. I can’t imagine looking back and having regrets.

Now granted, some dreams are impossible, but I’m not talking about things like becoming an Olympic gymnast or something that would bankrupt a Rockefeller. I’m talking about pursuing reasonably achievable dreams. Like writing. Go for it!


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