Archive for January, 2010
“Mom, it looks like your butts growing.”
My wife was tucking in our 8 year old boy tonight, and as she left he says, “Mom, it looks like your butts growing.”
“What!” says she. “Your butt, it’s glowing.” He says. She looks and realizes she had just stuck her cell phone in her back pocket and the screen was shining through.
It’s a good thing, because I really like that little guy, and he was about 5 seconds away from leaving the planet. 
Cross Country Skiing At Soldier Hollow
Went with my son Tyler and his scout troop to Soldier Hollow, site of the 2002 Winter Olympics, made this video using the Flip “Magic Video” option:
The things people do for fun
OK, I have no idea how to categorize this one on my blog, but it’s so random, and entertaining in it’s own peculiar way, I had to share it:
The Best Books…
I love books. I especially love good books. The challenge is, how do you know which ones are good? There’s nothing worse than getting a few pages into a book and realizing it’s rubbish.
So one day I was walking through the bookstore looking for a good book, and I had an epiphany. “Good books survive the test of time.” I thought to myself. That’s it. Bad books don’t get reprinted. Only the best ones do. So if a book was written a hundred years ago, and it’s still being reprinted and sold today, there’s a dang good chance it’s a good book.
So I went to the classics. And Barnes and Noble has a cool classics section with some inexpensive hardcover classics, all branded and colored to look like a set. So I bought my first book, “A Tale Of Two Cities,” by Charles Dickens. At first it was kind of rough, a little hard to read. But then it got better and better, and for the last 50 pages it was absolutely impossible to put down! And when I got to the end, wow! It was incredible!
So I went back and got another one. Then another one. Once, I was tempted to buy two at a time, but I resisted the urge. Better to take one home, savor it, and put it away on the shelf before getting the next one, I thought.
Since then, I’ve read about 20 of them, and loved it. It’s been a first class education, for less than the price of a single college class. So next time you’re looking for a “good book,” head on over to the classics, you won’t be disappointed!
The picture above shows my two shelves of classic books, including all the Barnes And Nobles versions, along with a variety of others that have wandered into my collection from various places.
Got a great book suggestion for me? Leave a comment!
Little Wildhorse Slot Canyon
Check out this amazing scenery and slot canyon footage in Utah’s Little Wildhorse Canyon, a few miles west of Goblin Valley:
Paperless Home Office
Check out how I created a paperless home office. No more clutter!
I now have an in-box that anybody in the family can put papers, mail etc. in, and I then either take care of it, chuck it, file it, or scan it into my computer.
“A Decade Of Nothing.”
Did we just complete a “Decade Of Nothing?” (Economically speaking)
What do you think:
I’m not napping, I’m meditating!
I meditate. And I’m proud of it. I know I don’t do it right, but I don’t care. Have you heard of “The Gap” by Wayne Dyer? It’s a great book, about how we all have too many thoughts cluttering up our busy brains, and need to “Get into the gap” by quieting our minds and getting into that gap where there are no thoughts.
I like to think of it as a really cool nap. True meditating types don’t like that. If you fall asleep you’re a rookie. Well, I think a naps as good as a gap.
But I do try to meditate. The best way for me is with my iPod. I have some meditations by Steven Halpern. They’re great. Just plug in, turn on, and you feel like an instant Zen master! One of my meditations is called “10 minute deep relaxation break.” It’s really amazing. If I ever start to get that drowsy feeling in the afternoon, but don’t have time for a real nap, I just put on the headphones, sit down, and literally in 10 minutes this recording takes me into a deep, hypnotic state, and back up again, and I’m good to go for the rest of the day.
So while I wish I was more of a Chi kind of guy, who could actually meditate without falling asleep, the iPod cheating that I do works well for me. If you haven’t tried it, go to iTunes and search for meditations. It’s a great way to re-set your batteries half way through the day, without having to find a tree by a river and sit in the lotus position.