Saturday was the last game of the season. I learned a lot of things about communication (with 6 year-olds and with their parents), time-management, teamwork, motivating children, etc.
I’d like to try this again soon, but probably not next season.
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increase my pace from a 10 minute mile to a 9 minute mile
1 entry . 3 cheers |
1 person |
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Talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk
9 entries . 12 cheers |
1 person |
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go to the winter olympics
7 entries . 2 cheers |
21 people |
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Ride on the "Wheels of Love" ride
1 entry |
1 person |
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Get a speed bump installed on my street
2 entries . 1 cheer |
2 people |
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Keep the chicken coop from smelling
1 cheer |
1 person |
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Learn Torah Everyday
1 entry |
3 people |
| 8. |
protect 43 Things from spammers
1 entry . 4 cheers |
3 people |
| 9. |
Finish the secret toothpaste tube project
2 team members . 2 entries . 2 cheers |
2 people |
| 10. |
write down as many of my earliest memories from childhood as I can remember
18 entries . 10 cheers |
32 people |
| 11. |
clean up my life list every week
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 12. |
Race in three winter biathlons
1 cheer |
1 person |
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Recover from my wedding
2 cheers |
1 person |
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Make 43 Things Faster
3 team members |
4 people |
How I did it: Get a ball that's the right size for you. You can find sizing charts online.Don't give up your desk chair right away. You'll need to ease into using the ball.The first day, sit on it for 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the afternoon. Do that for a week or so, until the hour goes by without you thinking "damn this stupid ball hurts my butt and back."Then up it to 2 hours twice a day, etc. It will probably take a… Read how I did it…
How I did it: For a week or so, make a list of every ingredient in every thing you eat.Next to each thing mark whether or not it's local. You can define local however you want. I live in Seattle, so I defined it as Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and southern BC. It's about a 400mile radius (that's pretty lenient).If you eat prepared food (frozen entrees) or restaurant food, you can assume it's not local unless you know for sure that it is… Read how I did it…
Saturday was the last game of the season. I learned a lot of things about communication (with 6 year-olds and with their parents), time-management, teamwork, motivating children, etc.
I’d like to try this again soon, but probably not next season.
In 1st grade, our class built a robot that could quiz you. On its chest, it had a row of questions and a row of the answers. If you touched its right arm to a question and its left arm to the correct answer, it would light up. (The secret was that there was a wire between the matching questions and answers that would complete a circuit!).
That year, I went to Bellingham, WA for my cousin Matt’s Bar Mitzvah. I was playing with my other cousin Daniel and his friend Robby. I remember commenting that our robot shared his name.
Actually, I recall the exact phrase (though it’s a bit embarrassing to recount verbatim): “You think my name is weird? Your name is the name of our class robot.”
One of my sons was singing the theme song to the old TV show Heathcliff (where do they hear this stuff?) which brought back a memory:
I’d go to my friend Mathew’s house after school, and Heathcliff was on at the same time as a show that he wanted to watch. So we’d watch 15 minutes of Heathcliff and 15 minutes of his show.