While discussing the potential cost of a gift:
Kaelyn: $20 is the generic cost for many gifts
Becky: $20 is the magic number.
Me: I thought 3 was the magic number?
Becky: That was the 70’s. Inflation, baby.
Inflation, baby
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Twitter Updates for 2010-12-29
- Experiment of the day: homemade doughnuts (Alton Brown's recipe, of course) http://yfrog.com/h4mruyj #
Twitter Updates for 2010-12-28
- Finishing the year with my civic duty. Just got a jury summons. #
Twitter Updates for 2010-12-25
- Working on one last Christmas gift: inbox zero (for me). Only 7 remain. #
For Christmas I gave myself nothing
I’ve been doing the GTD things for a few years and am a major fan of OmniFocus by the Omni Group (they got my money for my Mac, my iPhone, and iPad). A similar concept pertains to email and that is of Inbox Zero. The concept is basically keeping your email inbox empty by dealing with or deleting each message.
I’ve longed wanted to get down to an empty inbox. About a year ago, I went from a few hundred down to about 100 but getting past was more difficult than I would have imagined.
The last few weeks, I’ve renewed the effort and today successfully got both my personal and work mailboxes down to zero.
The trick, of course, is keeping it empty. I get enough mail both personally and professionally so I will continue to leverage the power of OmniFocus to capture anything I need to deal with but can’t at that moment.
I like finishing the year with nothing. Merry Christmas.
Twitter Updates for 2010-12-17
- Working on budgets. Soundtrack: TRON Legacy (daft punk). It makes it almost fun (almost). #
Twitter Updates for 2010-12-09
- I think it's cool that with 16.7M colors available, people often still use green on black in the terminal program. #retrorules #
- Combined work/home inbox count: 27. Is today the day? #inboxzero #
- Didn't get as far as hoped. Final count for the day: 20 (down 7). #inboxzero #
- It's feeling like my body is succumbing to what has infected the house. Work's not looking good tomorrow. #fluislame #
Twitter Updates for 2010-12-08
- Homing in on inbox zero for work. 22 messages remain. #
Twitter Updates for 2010-12-07
- Who says you can't get into the spirit of Christmas at work? http://yfrog.com/eiv5a0j #
et tu, Brian?
Two years ago, my daughter spent her own saved money to purchase a Nintendo DS. This past Friday (the Black one), my son similarly used his own hard-earned savings to give money to the competition and purchased a Xbox 360 4G.
Where did I go wrong?