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WHY IS THIS ALL RUNNING TOGETHER?
Also, the cut is failing on DW.
On the really trivial issue of being part of an age minority, ( a little griping and comments about the movie RED ) Age biases is not really the topic that interests me this morning, but apparently i was still feeling awareness. --==∞==-- I spent all yesterday, my one lovely mostly-free day before i get on a plane again, playing with Ponoko, my personal factory. I've loved the idea since i read about it, asked for a gift certificate ages ago, recovered the lost gift certificate, and spent yesterday taking the time to exploit a 50% off coupon at the same time as the gift certificate. Now just to wait the weeks for my designs to be made. It was just a bunch of experiments, mostly. A notebook back for comb-bound systems in purple acrylic and a leather bottom for a crocheted small purse were my starters, with other bits of experimental effort to see what i think of the materials and the laser etching abilities. I have mixed feelings about the satisfaction from this. Partly, it wasn't exactly intentional, so all my other intentions clamor their sense of being left out. On the other hand, "Make something with Ponoko" has been on my wish list for AGES. I've never committed to it, as other priorities seemed too significant, but given the combination of opportunity - i grabbed it. I should feel satisfaction about this, i should feel delight in doing something that has been something i've wanted to do for ages. So, my challenge: how do i encourage and incorporate valuing that spontaneous deep-dive with the satisfaction practices. I recognize that deep-dives, where i do nothing but focus on the project at hand for hours and hours, are refreshing, renewing for me. I recognize that given all the many things i want to do, deep-dives are hard to allocate time to. I did let my deep dive be interrupted: i had two chats with friends on-line (pleasant and rare) and i worked while Christine was watching the 2006 movie Outsourced. One thing i valued about that movie was how it had the Avatar/Fern Gully cross culture romance thing going, but it didn't fall into the Avatar trap. In the evening we took a trip to this city to listen to Christine's instructor on the mandolin and mandola accompanied by his wife on mandola and a friend on guitar. I enjoyed the Baroque lute pieces transcribed for mandolin. The later pieces, which focus so much on the tremolo technique, were not as interesting to me. Off to Meeting, where the library committee is fixing the provided lunch.
Also, the cut is failing on DW.
On the really trivial issue of being part of an age minority, ( a little griping and comments about the movie RED ) Age biases is not really the topic that interests me this morning, but apparently i was still feeling awareness. --==∞==-- I spent all yesterday, my one lovely mostly-free day before i get on a plane again, playing with Ponoko, my personal factory. I've loved the idea since i read about it, asked for a gift certificate ages ago, recovered the lost gift certificate, and spent yesterday taking the time to exploit a 50% off coupon at the same time as the gift certificate. Now just to wait the weeks for my designs to be made. It was just a bunch of experiments, mostly. A notebook back for comb-bound systems in purple acrylic and a leather bottom for a crocheted small purse were my starters, with other bits of experimental effort to see what i think of the materials and the laser etching abilities. I have mixed feelings about the satisfaction from this. Partly, it wasn't exactly intentional, so all my other intentions clamor their sense of being left out. On the other hand, "Make something with Ponoko" has been on my wish list for AGES. I've never committed to it, as other priorities seemed too significant, but given the combination of opportunity - i grabbed it. I should feel satisfaction about this, i should feel delight in doing something that has been something i've wanted to do for ages. So, my challenge: how do i encourage and incorporate valuing that spontaneous deep-dive with the satisfaction practices. I recognize that deep-dives, where i do nothing but focus on the project at hand for hours and hours, are refreshing, renewing for me. I recognize that given all the many things i want to do, deep-dives are hard to allocate time to. I did let my deep dive be interrupted: i had two chats with friends on-line (pleasant and rare) and i worked while Christine was watching the 2006 movie Outsourced. One thing i valued about that movie was how it had the Avatar/Fern Gully cross culture romance thing going, but it didn't fall into the Avatar trap. In the evening we took a trip to this city to listen to Christine's instructor on the mandolin and mandola accompanied by his wife on mandola and a friend on guitar. I enjoyed the Baroque lute pieces transcribed for mandolin. The later pieces, which focus so much on the tremolo technique, were not as interesting to me. Off to Meeting, where the library committee is fixing the provided lunch.