Sunday, March 31, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Be Careful What You Say!
It was a bitterly cold Minnesota morning.A married couple went their separate ways to do their work for the
day, He to a corporate office and his wife to her home office.
Soon the husband received a text from his wife: WINDOWS FROZEN – CAN’T OPEN THEM. He responded: TRY POURING WARM WATER OVER IT AND SEE IF THAT HELPS
A short time later he got a reply text: DID WHAT YOU SAID. PC REALLY SCREWED UP NOW.
Moral of the story: Context is everything
Monday, March 18, 2013
Someone is Feeling Overwhelmed and Lined Up Some Help
You only get one guess as to who that someone is!
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Here's What Ellie Had to Say
About Leadership Day at her school. (She was one of a select group of kids who planned the event.)
"I had a really good day today. But it was also an exausting day since it was very windy and rainy. The first thing we did today was a bunch of assemblys. Sofie and Jack performed, they were awesome! The next thing we did was tours, they didn't go so well because of the rain.But after that was awesome ! We did our big finally, we danced to a song called " Every Thing at Once", it was totally awesome! So today went pretty well. My favorite part was the dancing cause it was just totally, fantastically, cool, and awesome!"
"I had a really good day today. But it was also an exausting day since it was very windy and rainy. The first thing we did today was a bunch of assemblys. Sofie and Jack performed, they were awesome! The next thing we did was tours, they didn't go so well because of the rain.But after that was awesome ! We did our big finally, we danced to a song called " Every Thing at Once", it was totally awesome! So today went pretty well. My favorite part was the dancing cause it was just totally, fantastically, cool, and awesome!"
I'm guessing she had a great day!
Saturday, March 9, 2013
This I Believe
An essay by Sara Adams on NPR's This I Believe series. It kind of sums up the way I feel about a lot of things.
If I have one operating philosophy about life it is this: "Be cool to
the pizza delivery dude; it's good luck." Four principles guide the
pizza dude philosophy.
Principle 1: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in humility and forgiveness. I let him cut me off in traffic, let him safely hit the exit ramp from the left lane, let him forget to use his blinker without extending any of my digits out the window or towards my horn because there should be one moment in my harried life when a car may encroach or cut off or pass and I let it go. Sometimes when I have become so certain of my ownership of my lane, daring anyone to challenge me, the pizza dude speeds by me in his rusted Chevette. His pizza light atop his car glowing like a beacon reminds me to check myself as I flow through the world. After all, the dude is delivering pizza to young and old, families and singletons, gays and straights, blacks, whites and browns, rich and poor, vegetarians and meat lovers alike. As he journeys, I give safe passage, practice restraint, show courtesy, and contain my anger.
Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy. Let's face it: We've all taken jobs just to have a job because some money is better than none. I've held an assortment of these jobs and was grateful for the paycheck that meant I didn't have to share my Cheerios with my cats. In the big pizza wheel of life, sometimes you're the hot bubbly cheese and sometimes you're the burnt crust. It's good to remember the fickle spinning of that wheel.
Principle 3: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in honor and it reminds me to honor honest work. Let me tell you something about these dudes: They never took over a company and, as CEO, artificially inflated the value of the stock and cashed out their own shares, bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy, resulting in 20,000 people losing their jobs while the CEO builds a home the size of a luxury hotel. Rather, the dudes sleep the sleep of the just.
Principle 4: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in equality. My measurement as a human being, my worth, is the pride I take in performing my job — any job — and the respect with which I treat others. I am the equal of the world not because of the car I drive, the size of the TV I own, the weight I can bench press, or the calculus equations I can solve. I am the equal to all I meet because of the kindness in my heart. And it all starts here — with the pizza delivery dude.
Tip him well, friends and brethren, for that which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.
Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude
Principle 1: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in humility and forgiveness. I let him cut me off in traffic, let him safely hit the exit ramp from the left lane, let him forget to use his blinker without extending any of my digits out the window or towards my horn because there should be one moment in my harried life when a car may encroach or cut off or pass and I let it go. Sometimes when I have become so certain of my ownership of my lane, daring anyone to challenge me, the pizza dude speeds by me in his rusted Chevette. His pizza light atop his car glowing like a beacon reminds me to check myself as I flow through the world. After all, the dude is delivering pizza to young and old, families and singletons, gays and straights, blacks, whites and browns, rich and poor, vegetarians and meat lovers alike. As he journeys, I give safe passage, practice restraint, show courtesy, and contain my anger.
Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy. Let's face it: We've all taken jobs just to have a job because some money is better than none. I've held an assortment of these jobs and was grateful for the paycheck that meant I didn't have to share my Cheerios with my cats. In the big pizza wheel of life, sometimes you're the hot bubbly cheese and sometimes you're the burnt crust. It's good to remember the fickle spinning of that wheel.
Principle 3: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in honor and it reminds me to honor honest work. Let me tell you something about these dudes: They never took over a company and, as CEO, artificially inflated the value of the stock and cashed out their own shares, bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy, resulting in 20,000 people losing their jobs while the CEO builds a home the size of a luxury hotel. Rather, the dudes sleep the sleep of the just.
Principle 4: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in equality. My measurement as a human being, my worth, is the pride I take in performing my job — any job — and the respect with which I treat others. I am the equal of the world not because of the car I drive, the size of the TV I own, the weight I can bench press, or the calculus equations I can solve. I am the equal to all I meet because of the kindness in my heart. And it all starts here — with the pizza delivery dude.
Tip him well, friends and brethren, for that which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
I've Got a New Office Mate!
Guess who was smart enough to get his home office
set up just in time to skip commuting today!
And here's why!
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Floor Hockey Champs
Elizabeth's floor hockey team went winless in the regular season 0-9. There are only 4 teams so they seeded in 4th place. Wouldn't you know it they bump off the 1st place team in the first round in triple overtime. The championship was today amd they needed 6 overtimes to become champions. Way to go Mavericks.
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