It’s a been a slow news day, but a tiny lit­tle adven­ture came to us at the start of the evening. As I was get­ting sup­per together, my kids started yelling, “There’s a pea­cock out­side our win­dow! There’s a pea­cock out­side our win­dow! There’s a pea­cock out­side our window!”

The Spousal Unit and I looked […]

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effec­tive Peo­ple, Stephen Covey intro­duces a con­cept he calls P/PC Bal­ance. P is short for Pro­duc­tion, PC for Pro­duc­tion Capa­bil­ity. He uses Aesop’s fable of the goose who laid the golden eggs to demon­strate it. The farmer, want­ing more eggs ℗, unwisely kills his goose (PC) and never gets […]

School’s out for sum­mer!  Who knows what this will mean for my sched­ule? I plan many things, but often they are under­mined by tricky life. I may be more erratic than usual over the next few months, or I may find that not hav­ing to inter­rupt the flow of my day to meet an 8–3 […]

On the top of my read­ing stack is The 7 Habits of Highly Effec­tive Peo­ple. I’ve read through the first two habits now. Steve Covey’s advice is to treat the book as some­thing I will read over and over again, study­ing, grow­ing, and per­fect­ing.  As long as the book is all that it’s hyped to […]

Since I wrote yesterday’s post about the Soci­ety for Geek Advance­ment dur­ing the com­mer­cials of Big Bang The­ory, the video I showed you yes­ter­day has cir­cu­lated through­out the world and stirred up a lot of drama.  The com­ments made here reflect the con­ver­sa­tion that seems to be going on all over the internet.  […]