The Boy’s been frustrated lately with phones. Smart phones, to be precise. After a car cut us off the other day and he noticed the driver was on the phone, he exclaimed: Cell phones and smart phones haven’t made us better. They’ve made us worse drivers and disconnected people. You can have four people in […]
Technology
It’s All Mixed Up
Another interesting aspect of change is that it can bring some pretty unexpected things – things that you otherwise would take for granted. For example, for nearly 14 years I worked every day on a Mac. I loved it. The Mac suits my way of thinking and is designed for the creative work that I […]
I Love Social Media
Once upon a time, I resisted Facebook. Now I love it. I hated Twitter. Now it’s fantastic. I thought Tungle was a tangle to say. Now I’ve learned it saves approximately 22 emails. I love social media. I shared this chart – where else? – on my Facebook last week. I think it deserves to […]
Time Management Tool
Perhaps I’m just a little slow to discover useful tools, but that’s ok. I’ve been using the stopwatch feature on my iPhone to keep myself from losing all track of time while reading during my lunch hour. The other day I noticed a handy feature under the same menu: a timer. Set that sucker to […]
Geeky Fun
It’s no secret that the Hayleys are a little geeky. I don’t care – I’m nearly 40 and I’ll be geeky if I darn well feel like it. {Hmmm…reading that makes me think I have some latent hostility issues regarding a certain upcoming birthday. Anyway.} So, as I’ve shared before, we like to geocache. As […]
Breaking Up Is Good To Do
Sometimes the most ridiculous goals are the healthiest. I set a 101 goal to “break up” with the internet for 10 evenings. Little did I know how challenging that would be. We’ve definitely become an “I’ve got to know it now” society. Before I realized it, most evenings I was doing a quick google search. […]
Hide-and-Go-Seek
I’ve finished another 101 List item (with the help of The Boy and our good friends, J and S): Hiding a geocache. I’ve written before about geocaching, so I won’t expound on the sport here. But I will give you a quick how-to on hiding a cache (aka burying treasure to be found) based upon […]
Fat Fingering
I’ve always thought I had fairly skinny, though slightly knobby, fingers. See: I should note that I took a photo of my hand and was so horrified by the dried-out reddish skin that I had to run and put on hand lotion. Getting older and the ill-effects of central heating…it’s not pretty. Anyway, apparently my fairly […]
It’s a Miracle
I thought I was doing well to get my work email inbox under control yesterday – from 40 emails to 8. That’s impressive, my friends. But not nearly as impressive as what I was able to do with my personal email inbox: It’s a miracle. And I didn’t even have to visit Miracle Max!
What Do You Think of the New Me?
Yesterday, when I opened my blog I discovered a floating “photo removed” window. Very irritating. After a bit of digging I finally realized what had been removed – my blog background! Well, fine. I’d been intending to update my blog anyway. Now was as good a time as any! One thing led to another…tweak a […]