One of the things I’ve found that I spend a lot of time as a woodworker (hobby not professional) is organizing my shop. I’ve read that many hobby based woodworkers do the same. I suspect that my reasons for this is multi faceted. One reason is that my shop is relatively small. Another reason is [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Movie/Film Reviews
Reviewers, in general, are there to get as big of an audience as they can. Since I love movies, reviews, spoilers and the like, I have had a great deal of opportunity to listen, read, view many reviewers. In that time, my observations lead me to believe that most of them try to achieve audience [...]
Daily Self-discipline
A while back I posted something about Guitar Practice which was focused on the discipline needed to make different levels of progress. I’m still doing well with this but I thought that I should apply it to my overall day too. When you are full time parent like I am, you are busy when the [...]
What is Change?
Ok, we’ve just elected someone who defined himself and his candidacy based on change. What is it or really, what should change be? I’ve heard and read discussion that change is about bringing new approaches to everything. I think these written and spoken conversations define new approaches as something truly new and never been tried. [...]
Dear Mr. Obama
I voted for you. I saw and heard lots about hope and change. I certainly believe in these times we could use both. I saw and heard bits and pieces of your policies. Many of them sound smart. What I hope that you can deliver on though is something else. I would like to see [...]
Guitar Practice
So for the past three years, I have been actively working to learn how to play the guitar. My view on what this means has changed over these three years. When I first started, I wanted to learn to play chords so I could play campfire songs. My first year or so was with a [...]