For those who may not know, I have red hair.
Growing up with red hair pretty much sucks – at least as a boy. You’re different than just about everyone else, which means you get teased alot. Strangers stare at you, which contributes to this feeling that you’re always near the center of attention. I imagine [...]
02.25Red sauce
I skipped lunch yesterday. It was partly because I was so involved in what I was working on, and partly because I wasn’t really sure when my socially accepted lunch break was. I was working on a project away from the office and it seemed like someone was always checking on me.
Needless to say, I [...]
02.19Job’s done
Today was my last day of work for Only Websites (I’m not even going to link to them, cuz I don’t want them getting any of my link juice). I am so glad to be out of there.
Only Websites does, well, websites. They make websites. The trouble is, they don’t make good websites, and I [...]
02.14Year of the cupcake
Are cupcakes on the rise? (That’s not a baking pun) I think they are, and I may just be catching this wave a little later than everyone else.
I had a birthday a couple days ago. I didn’t plan any sort of party or get-together. I was too busy with more important matters during the week [...]
02.03Ambitions
Kristen Ogden said something today that got me thinking about ambitions. Ambitions are things we aspire to do. They motivate us to action and help us focus our energies toward productive activities.
I have tons of ambitions.
Run my own business
Help other people through that business
Purchase a home
Be a good father
Many others that are more like “goals” [...]
01.28Considering the iPad
There was quite a bit of buzz leading up to the most recent Apple product announcement. By the time Steve Jobs took the stage there was practically nothing he could have said that would met those expectations.
Reaction
What I find interesting is the way people are responding to this new product. I’d expect all the Apple [...]
01.18New year resolution
I don’t really like New Year’s Resolutions. The way I see it, if there’s something I want to get done or never do again, there’s no better time to start than now. There’s no sense waiting around until the new year begins. I doubt many people actually put off changing until the new year (unless [...]
01.14Too many degrees
It seems like everyone around me is in law school or working on some other type of graduate degree. What’s up with that?
Why aren’t they more complacent? Why don’t they just go out into the work force and happily make their meager salaries? They’re just making things more difficult for people like me.
I’ve got skills. [...]
01.12Alchemy
I finished The Alchemist last night.
Personal Legend needs a new title. It could be Life Quest or Personal Vision or Grand Adventure or anything like that. I’d even take capital-p Purpose. Personal Legend is just too fantasy.
“But, David,” you say, “it is fantasy. A man cannot talk to the sun and cause the wind to blow [...]
01.06Consolidate
I’ve blogged in many different ways over the years. It was livejournal for a while, then myspace, then my own custom blog software, then . . . nothing, maybe WordPress?
My first mistake may have been to ever start blogging in the first place. My second was to switch venues whenever I got bored. Hopefully I [...]