I'm doing 38 things
Bought a Prius - and love it!
21 months ago
The fuel economy is great (probably 45 mpg year-round average) and would be better if I lived in a warmer climate. It’s also a very comfortable car.
silica's Life List
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1. meditate
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2. have more energy
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3. spend more time outside
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4. waste less time on the computer
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5. believe in the beauty of my dreams
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6. Make a list of 10 books I want to read every year, and read them
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7. write a short story, poem, or essay
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8. study children's literature
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9. study music
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10. play the harp
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11. catalog my library
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12. become APICS certified
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13. Become fluent in more than one language
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14. learn as many languages as I can (spoken, natural, formal, artificial)
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15. learn a programming language
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16. study ontology
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17. research and play The Glass Bead Game
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18. design a tarot deck
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19. look at the universe through a telescope
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20. own a print by Robert Vickrey
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21. draw what I see
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22. improve my vision
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23. figure out how my current job connects to the rest of my life
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24. Find fulfilling work
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25. Stop saying things I don't mean
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26. stop worrying about what people think
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27. Be more at ease socially
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28. make and maintain good friendships
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29. make a male friend
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30. be physically fit
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31. understand and improve the economics of my life (personal, business, social, global)
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32. find / learn more kinesthetic input methods
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33. Visit Machu Picchu
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34. have more joie de vivre
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35. build a garden
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36. fly in a hot air balloon
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37. step into another world
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38. realize après tech
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How I did it
It made me
delighted 
How I did it: Married the right person (my best friend) and didn't rush things. The early years of our marriage were better without the pressure of being young parents. We did not rush to a fertility doctor when nothing happened for some time ... and then it happened at the right time! Finally, the journey of pregnancy, and now I love her with all my heart! Read how I did it…
It made me
It's been fantastic!
How I did it: I purchased on a credit card with 12 months no interest, and managed to pay it off early. I did not go through the financing Apple is affiliated with. Read how I did it…
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I'm looking for...
3 years ago
something which is more efficient, ergonomic, expressive, or just more fun to use than my current devices. Being pleasant to look at and touch is also important. The possibilities seem endless and promising; there has been so much stagnation in computer input devices, at least in the mass market.
- I have a Wacom tablet.
- The Dvorak keyboard layout.
- FingerWorks TouchStream.
- User-designed keyboard layouts or overlays.
- Gyration Ultra GT.
- Apple Mighty Mouse
- A trackball somewhat like this.
- Trackpad innovations like the two-fingered scrolling on my iBook, but more possibilities?
- A light-weight glove or something wearable that enables my fingers to function like an input device.
- A touch-screen display, possibly with a light pen.
- A Tablet PC, utilizing a stylus with pressure-sensitive input, handwriting recognition, tapping and gesture recognition, etc.
- The perfected PDA – I had a Palm Tungsten T3 with Graffiti handwriting recognition and a miniature keyboard, but I didn’t use it.
- The whole world of little gadgets. The Nintendo DS has a touch-screen. The iPod has its click-wheel. Smart phones.
- Joysticks and game-like controllers also have their place. I have a basic USB controller called a Gravis GamePad Pro.
- Stenotype machines, although I don’t know what application they have outside court reporting or transcription.
There’s a lot of options and ideas to explore!
I'm proud that this is moving along!
3 years ago
A couple months ago, I drove to Denver and looked at a roomful of harps at Kolacny Music Store. I ended up buying a Dusty Strings Ravenna 26-string harp. I have loved it! Learning the hand positioning and patterns hasn’t been as difficult as I expected, and right now I can play a few songs fairly well from memory, the melody only and nothing fancy with my left hand.
“Over the Rainbow” was the first song I learned.
I have taken three lessons with a teacher in Denver, and one lesson with another teacher in Fort Collins. Now I’m in the predicament of deciding which I want to stick with, since I’m driving a fair distance from Western Nebraska, twice a month, for these lessons. I need to decide in the next day or two, as this coming Thursday is my next scheduled day. Tough decision.
