Interface Simplicity - Joe’s Goals
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In a world so full of noise, sometimes it’s great to retreat to a place of simplicity. One of my recent web retreats is getting back into Joe’s Goals, where I’m digging the new 2.0 interface that keeps everything on one page. It’s pretty simple - every time I complete a goal, I click to put a check mark on the box for that goal. I can add another check mark by clicking on the box again, or click directly on a check mark to remove it. It’s pretty simple to use, but the great part is that I’m the one to choose what a check mark means. I’m not affiliated with the site in any way, but I am a daily user.
Joe’s Goals is a simple way to track productivity chains - I can set it to show me how long I’ve kept up my daily scripture reading or my exercise (and I can even exclude Sundays for that goal). It’s simple, free, and easy. Thanks, Joe!
World’s Blankiest 90’s Albums
I recently found myself looking through my CD collection. In high school, I had a boring job. Sure, it was fun at times, but too often we ran out of real work and they stuck my friend Bill and I in a room to do menial tasks like counting the number of pages in documents. Boring. We quickly found that a solution was to buy a new CD every week or so, and that made things fun. It’s also the reason I have songs like It’s the End of the World As We Know It memorized, and because of that, I can be a lot of fun at parties.
Here is a list of the World’s Blankiest 90’s Albums, which is basically just a trip down nostalgia lane for me. The only restrictions I make is that the CD had to be released in the US during the 90’s, and that it had to have more than one song on it that I loved to listen to. Oh, the memories.
Denver and the Rockies
First, I just wanted to say that the last few weeks have me somewhat disappointed in the national media. With that said, I immensely enjoyed my trip to Denver to see the Rockies in the first World Series game in Colorado, which was also the longest 9-inning game in World Series history. The reason for mentioning the national media is because of their labeling of the World Series as boring… which I really disagree with. If you only looked at box scores and post-game reports, you might think that I was really depressed watching my Rockies, which just wasn’t true. They played well, all things considered. The Red Sox are a great team, which gives me all the more reason to dislike them. In fact, I’ve had more fun loathing them lately than I have had loathing the Yankees (although that will never stop being entertaining). I’ve had this rising anger toward the Red Sox ever since they beat up on the Cardinals in 2004… not fun. Bottom line is that this World Series was as close as it should have been, and there were enough momentum shifts to keep me in my seat along with tens of thousands of other Rockies fans in Coors Field. I got to go to the World Series, and that’s something even Red Sox dominance couldn’t take away from me.
Check out this video showing the Rockies miraculous postseason run. This video forgets to show us the 14 of 15 games they won at the end of the regular season, which was miraculous enough. Thanks, Rockies! I’ll be back to see you soon.
Christmas Eve?
Well, it’s not Christmas in October but it’s close. I’m writing this from a hotel in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, making final preparations for our trip to the World Series. That’s right, tomorrow I’M GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES! I’m very excited. It’s nearly midnight, and I can’t think about sleeping. It’s like waiting up for Santa Claus.
It seems that scoring tickets to this event was just about as unlikely as the Rockies winning 21 of 22 games, so I’m pretty excited for the chance to be here. I wish that Julia and Emmy could have been here, too, but I’m glad they let me come! This may be a once-in-a-lifetime chance, so I’m definitely going to make the most of it.
Go Rockies!!!
Going Green
Ann Arbor, Michigan is planning to install LEDs in its streetlights to save money on lighting costs. Apparently this investment is going to pay for itself in four years. There seems to be a bit of a mini-green revolution right now, as just about every finance blog or personal improvement blog talks about replacing your own light bulbs with CFLs or LEDs. We got a pack of them from Wal-Mart to replace some 60-watt bulbs, and we’re pretty sure that the “60-watt equivalent” is brighter than the regular incandescent bulb after it warms up. Wal-Mart even has their own brand of CFLs, and that’s what we’re using now. It’s a bit of an investment, but we’re planning on replacing a few more bulbs each month to try to cut down on our utilities bill.
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Geocaching
