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I need inspiration and motivation right now
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Minimal Bookshelf
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King For the longest time I collected and hoarded books. I loaded up bookshelves, totes and closet space to store them. But after moving around the country a few times those books began to become a burden and no…
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Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)
Time to update
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Digital Moderation
You know what I learned from my one week digital cleanse? Moderation. After a self-mandated abstinence from digital media I had almost 1000 blog feed posts waiting for me. 5,000 tweets and numerous G+ posts. I redeemed my time by reading physical books, right-sizing the…
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Digital House Cleaning
Since my digital sabbatical started yesterday morning, I’ve decided to clean up and purge a few things. I removed the Linux and Windows 7 partitions and did a clean install of Ubuntu 13 Beta Raring Ringtail as the primary operating system. Also added Virtualbox. Inside…
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Run On Sentences
Due to the schizophrenic weather, I am not running. However, I just purchased a book on running for beginners. Why do I feel like I am running backwards?
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Attitude Adjustment
The next time you adjust a setting, think twice. Sometimes it’s better to change yourself to appreciate the defaults than to change the defaults to suit you. Someone I am going to struggle with this concept.
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Schizophrenia
86 and muggy by day, tornadoes at night. 40 degree drop in temps the next day. Where is Spring?
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Digital Cleanse
After the mental stress of sending off the tax check I sat down to the laptop and mindlessly surfed the internet for an hour. Right then I declared it is time for me to cleanse and purge. As I consumed large quantities of posts, tweets,…
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Meditation
I’m finding small ways to lower stress and enhance my calm such as meditating. I would suggest a minimum of 2 minutes in a quiet spot and focus on breathing, nothing else. I use my Android’s built in timer but you can simply use whatever…
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Groundhog Day Resolution 4/4 Check-In
This is my second check-in of GHR 2013. By now, most people have abandoned their NYE resolutions and that is where GHR comes in for me. So, on with my resolutions. Relocate back to Houston Texas Drop and lose 5 pounds a month for 4 months Learn…
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Feed Me
With Google shuttering the wildly popular Reader, I’ve looked at some alternatives such as Flipboard, Feedly and even the other Google product, Currents. I am also trying to create a feed reader on my server using the TinyTiny RSS schema. Having issues with the PHP and…