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Beer and a pizza. Bad lunch.
Not the best lunch for a sick ninja, but the most comforting.
Indilea lost her first tooth!
Such a big girl.
Cleaning Out the Mold
Like many people who are energetically sensitive, I had a hell of a last few weeks. I don't know if it was something in the stars or general October rainy blues, but I was in a funk for a couple of weeks. So I shook things up. I pulled my desk out of the bedroom and moved it into the spare room. I cleaned, and I cleaned, and I cleaned. In Costa Rica, there are no mops. Everyone here wraps [...]
Slow Start.
Sometimes, it's best to stop working. Sunday is the second day of my workweek. One of the advantages of being your own boss is deciding when you get time off; and this morning, as my own boss, I played hookie for two hours. Friends came over with their kids, to play in the pool. Did I really need to spend the first two hours of the day in front of the computer? Now I feel productive, and happy, and enthusiastic [...]
My Roundtable of Heroes
I’ve been doing a lot of existential-type exercises lately, because I run my own business, and as my own boss, I need to a) keep myself on track, and b) substitute imaginary friends for a board meeting. Napoleon Hill describes the process of creating an ‘Imaginary Cabinet’ in Think and Grow Rich. You relax your body completely, and imagine all your greatest heroes sitting around a table with you, eager to answer your questions. In order to keep my imagination [...]