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Default Jan 26, 2023 at 12:01 PM
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I'll have to Put Titles at the Top of my Posts ... Support Forums changed something and it no longer shows a title for a post, only the date and time. Yuck. I liked finding a title for each post. A small moment to be creative.

I'll see if there's a setting adjustment. Stay tuned. R.

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Default Jan 30, 2023 at 12:59 AM
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Hi Measlies, DocJohn hipped me to the secret—change the theme, or skin, in the settings. Switched it to Psych Central, and BINGO, they're back.

Working way through the 31 day Luck course. Found an old file from 2008, just one page, on my google drive, where I wrote a note about my luck some long forgotten day.

Comments on my Awards and Obits thread if you want to peek in.
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Default Feb 01, 2023 at 09:15 PM
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Hi, Steppers,

I'm almost finished with my latest edit run-through which is pretty much looking for typos and spelling and grammar mistakes. (as opposed to boring writing or logic problems. A friend is going also helping me with aforementioned edits, so hopefully "The Healing Power of Lightning will be pretty much stupid-mistake free. Another friend and I are going to work together on marketing. So, right now, it all looks good.

Concerning luck - do you remember Gladstone Gander? He was in the Donald Duck comics and he was the luckiest duck in the world.

Good luck to us all.
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Default Feb 02, 2023 at 03:46 AM
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Ha, either forgot or never new about Gladstone. Found this back story: link.

Though laziness isn't part of the scientific canon for luck, I can see it playing a role.

There's a story of someone walking to an Army barracks and saying he'll give $50 to the laziest soldier. Most of the recruits jumped at the chance and regaled him with stories about their laziness. When the last had finished he heard a slow drawl from a soldier who had never stirred from his top bunk bed, "Mr. you can walk right over here and put that 50 in my pocket."

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Default Feb 08, 2023 at 11:22 AM
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Howdy. Today follows my busiest day this year! 5 places to be, made them all, on time, and did well. The last was a local play about the history of black theater in the USA. Came with one of those QR squares I don't bother with, but this time I'm giving myself a task of digging in more and maybe see the show again before it closes, using their pay-what-you-will option.

And then there's some other must do things I'm getting clearer on how to complete.

Mood of the moment: upbeat.
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Default Feb 13, 2023 at 10:45 AM
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R. you're a tougher cookie than I am. I'm seriously impressed with five meetings in one day. Me - I'm trying to increase the amount of work I do. I'm feeling very mortal lately, and I can see myself dying saying "wait a minute - I didn't mean to spend all that time goofing off.

So happy stepping.
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Default Feb 17, 2023 at 03:29 PM
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"I’m still not sure how I turned into a crazy person. The way to proceed was obvious. I should pick a piece of this albatross, throw the rest away, and focus in on it. Do what I had done for years—suck it up, get serious, knock something out, and move on with my life." ~ Tim Urban, Wait but Why blogger, on why it took 6 years to release his book.

Measly steps:
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  2. get serious
  3. knock something out
  4. move on
"Hahahahahahaha." The gods' mirth that we dare to make plans.

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Default Feb 22, 2023 at 10:30 AM
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Yikes, added stuff, hard stuff, to do. Sort of poked about for an online todo list maker. Have wordflowy, but it limits me to only so many times per month, and i'm going to be doing/checking off/adding a lot.

Tried rapidtables list maker, checkli, and checkvist. Finally returned to my steady standard: Keep and Share. It's free for solo/personal use, easy to add items, can filter by different criteria, and each item has a notes section for more details.

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Default Feb 22, 2023 at 10:40 PM
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Hi, R.

So it took me an hour on the computer to order 45 memoirs for my mother-in-law's memorial. I had to change password, edit credit card, find KDP publishing, and receiving four codes (I think) and approving four actions. And I was denied entry into my Amazon account multiple times. On the other hand, it took me about five minutes to order five books straight from Amazon. The only problem with the five-book order - It had the wrong name and address on my credit card! You'd think someone would have caught that. I can't figure out how to delete the bad info. Using your golf analogy I think that's about a bogey 25.

Hope you're having a better day. Oh, other than that, today was a good day.
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Default Mar 01, 2023 at 02:16 PM
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Hi, R.

Sorry I"ve been AFK so much lately. My goal is to increase my workload by a half-hour each day every week. When you're retired, it's so easy to goof off, and I'm not happy being that person. Besides everything else, I shove away those things that are hard, and they don't just go away no matter how much I want them to. That's why the last post about fixing credit accounts that had to be updated. I'm trying to be proactive even though I always feel like a crook dealing with credit numbers. (Don't ask why - I know it doesn't make sense. It's just that I've been brought up to believe that everything is my fault, including getting hacked because I should have known better. To add to the fun of it all, I get hacker mail saying that my account is overdue, and I have a hard time finding out which is real and which is phony. The cops said not to bother, but someday I want to copy and past all the hacker mail I have in my trash can and send it to them.
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Default Mar 04, 2023 at 02:06 AM
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Hiya, oh yeah, I've endured hassles with identity theft and such. Full on pain in the arse.

I like your goal of an extra half-hour every day. Is that all at once or added in bits, like if you work in 3 rounds, each one is 10 min longer than customary?

I might be a tad more satisfied when I can imagine the work of a day fitting closer to what I actually get done. Say, for today, I wanted to begin our partnership taxes and authorize my new credit cards (2) and then update the sites I have on autopay. One is which is Gig cars (drive and park rental "sharing" cars). BEFORE any of the mis-named sharing car companies, I had the idea. And what a load of work to pull it off. Several have tried and failed or fallen back in Seattle: Flexcar merged with Zipcar, and Car2Go, keyed to the cute Smart Cars, tanked. There was also Lime for a while, and Touro (might still be out there) and another one.

GIG (Get in and Go) cars are holding on. They are backed by the Automobile Association of America (AAA) of towing fame. One issue for me is that it is smart phone only, so I'm forced to use my iPad, and the map view is much smaller than what I can see at once on my Mac.

For mysterious reasons I could not figure out, my former credit card never worked, so I couldn't use the service because payment is pre-authorized. With the new card, everything seems to be set up. I'm going to find a car soon and drive it around the block to test it out.

Took less than 15 minutes to punch in my new card authorization. And the rest of the afternoon dealing with the updates and GIG.

Nothing done on the taxes. Moved to tomorrow's list, I guess.

I'm tired. Good night.

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Default Mar 07, 2023 at 08:52 AM
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I've been enjoying using several lists and apps for my 'second brain.' Here's the run:

sometimes a google doc
Workflowy ~ fee above a certain level of use
ListMoz 2 lists ~ very basic, one for daily reminders, one for further away
Keep and Share, free plan. Did hit the donate button and accidentally paid twice on paypal when my first payment didn't seem to go through. Haven't sent anything since 2016, when I joined up, so less than 2 cups of coffee.

So, the question becomes which should be the main 2nd Brain or do I now stop with 4 and only remember to try all of them when seeking some blip of information?

This single place to track method has a name and history. Of course, there are websites and apps for everything. Check it out here: The Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method.

Workflowy has the most varied ways of adding items like images, video, and documents.
K & S has the best ease of use, easy to add due dates, and a notes function for greater details.
ListMoz is extremely basic.

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Default Mar 08, 2023 at 06:32 PM
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Hi R,
So far, so good. My first week, I aimed for 5 hrs/day and nailed it with time to spare. The second week was 5.5 hrs., and that was okay too. This week, it's six hrs. per day, and that looks okay too.
I had an appt with my primary care doctor that I like Yay! My insurance dropped her last year, and it took me a year to get the insurance sorted out so I could see her again. Interesting bit - Contra Costa County retirement pays part of our insurance for Kaiser, Health Net, and Contra Costa''s own health plan. It looks like Health Net is getting out of Contra Costa County. Do you see a problem here?????
Meanwhile, I'm trying to get back in the land of the living. COVID reinforced my natural introverted nature, and I'm trying to reverse the trend to stay home and do nothing. Hence the goal to increase what I do by a half hour per day each week.
In case you're wondering, I'm a happier person if i get out and visit with people.
I guess that's it for me.
Happy stepping.
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Default Mar 13, 2023 at 08:07 PM
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HI, R,

I've been looking at website designers, and I've been asking for examples of their work.

Some of them are amazing. I now want to spend way more money than I had planned on. I am stoked!!! (Very dated expression, but appropriate. Here's my favorite one: Dogstudio. Multidisciplinary Creative Studio.
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Default Mar 13, 2023 at 08:08 PM
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HI, R,

I've been looking at website designers, and I've been asking for examples of their work.

Some of them are amazing. I now want to spend way more money than I had planned on. I am stoked!!! (Very dated expression, but appropriate. Here's my favorite one: Dogstudio. Multidisciplinary Creative Studio.
D, signing off.
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Default Mar 15, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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Hello Ms D, great studio you've found. Bold. Creative. Likely very, very expensive.

There's this product/site called Pip Decks. Decks of cards for storytelling, running workshops, etc. The first deck I looked at was $200! So I signed on for the free stuff, meaning daily promo emails.

One of his emails talks about the status hit from having expensive stuff. Part is you know it yourself, but there's a part when other people know it too. And both know the other knows. Rolex watches. Gucci handbags. Apple computers. I'm only 1 for 3 on this list.

So he shared his pricing journey. Before publishing his first run, people said they'd pay no than £30. When he came back with real decks he sold out at £40 the few pilot decks he had. And so on up the price ladder.

He also offer the entire workshop deck for free on his site and has an email reflecting on why anyone would now pay for it.

Today I finished off the 31 Day Luck School series. I'm not going to replace it with anything else right now. A lot else going on, plus I'd like to get some experience in tuning for better luck.

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Default Mar 18, 2023 at 01:18 PM
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So cool! I was looking through emails and found a list of great quotes which included this one:

by Lynx » Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:32 pm
Pessimism is intellectually seductive and the arguments always sound smarter, especially when they dovetail with our own worries. You think this period is more frightening than the sixteen month recession between July 1981 and November 1982 only because you weren’t there and you haven’t studied history. Your frame of reference is here and now, not then – with a 14% unemployment rate and 15% inflation. As Peter Lynch reminds us about that era, “Sensible professionals wondered if they should take up hunting and fishing, because soon we’d all be living in the woods, gathering acorns. Then the moment of greatest pessimism, when 8 out of 10 swore we where heading into the 1930s the stock market rebounded with a vengeance and suddenly all was right with the world.”

That’s what usually happens.

It brought me some happy memories. Hope it does the same or you, R
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p.s. Last line of my last post. "or" should be "for"
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Default Mar 19, 2023 at 11:03 PM
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Hi Ms D. That's pretty sharp witted. I am sick up to my neck with all the passive 'hoping' and active whining that someone "shares" in nearly every convo. The concept that pessimism is easy and a coward's way out of acting comes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

"It is more prudent to be a pessimist. It is an insurance against disappointment, and no one can say “I told you so,” which is how the prudent condemn the optimist. The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. Of course there is a foolish, shifty kind of optimism which is rightly condemned. But the optimism which is will for the future should never be despised, even if it is proved wrong a hundred times. It is the health and vitality which a sick man should never impugn. Some men regard it as frivolous, and some Christians think it is irreligious to hope and prepare oneself for better things to come in this life. They believe in chaos, disorder and catastrophe. That, they think, is the meaning of the present events and in sheer resignation or pious escapism they surrender all responsibility for the preservation of life and for the generations yet unborn. Tomorrow may be the day of judgement. If it is, we shall gladly give up working for a better future, but not before."

~ Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. 1939/1953. Letters and Papers from Prison, originally published as Prisoner for God. Edited by Eberhard Bethge; translated by Reginald H. Fuller. New York, Macmillian, pp. 32-33.


I think this might have been from his diary hidden in the rafters of his house so the Nazis could not find them.

Yeah, Barbara created a very special online place and I miss her and that forum a lot.

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Default Mar 20, 2023 at 10:06 AM
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I just reread that quote. A few days ago, I was trying to remember your logon name on the Boards and I couldn't. So - coincidence of coincidences - a friend sent me a list of quotes by famous people, and there was your name. I read the quote, but it didn't really do much for me at the time.

Then, today, I read it and it hit me. I'm a pessimist, or at least I was. And the quote just knocked me off my chair. (well, figuratively.) Yes, pessimism saves you from that horrible feeling of dreaming and having the dream stomped on. But when I saw myself in the quote, it was like I just dumped a lifetime of garbage in favor of hope.
I guess I'm not a total pessimist if I can keep writing after years of rejection.
I guess being a realist is the best of all.

I know this euphoric feeling won't last. (realism or pessimism?) But I think my life will be a lot happier for a long time.

If Jews could stay positive during WW II and freedom fighters could stay positive. maybe I can too.

So thank you.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

I wish I had a therapist to talk to.

Maybe I'll post something somewhere on the forums if I can find a thread on depression.
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