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Descent Is Faster and More Enjoyable than the Climb

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Go figure, it’s more fun (and much easier) to come down the mountain than it is to climb up. Yesterday (Sunday), Pops and I took a couple hours to climb and explore a nearby trail. It was pretty pathetic going up…

Walk a hundred yards, huff and puff for five minutes… walk 50 yards, huff and puff… walk 200 yards then get winded and have to stop for five minutes. Needless to say, it took awhile to get up. We walked up the trail — a fairly comfortable incline, despite the “huff and puff” episodes — for just over an hour and a half. I took photos (of course) and added them to my Colorado Photo Blog. The sights were really nice going up… Continue reading →

This and That

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This week, Wicked Blog logged over 100,000 hits!!! (I’m so proud!) And I’ve also been picked up on a couple friendly blogger channels. Now, if only I could find a visitor-friendly solution to better managing the drive-by blog spamming!

I’ve posted a new section over on Wicked Treo which features interviews with real estate agents using a Treo and Miguel Berger of www.TechValleyHomes.com is my first interview. He’s as impressed with the tool he’s found in his Treo 650 as I am in mine!

Jodi Diehl of SunfrogServices.com has proposed a PHP page program method which may allow me to bypass the login issues between GeekLog and the Treo, so I can blog while I’m on my trip to Colorado next month. This is the one thing I don’t like about having the WickedTreo.com site and Wicked Blog on the GeekLog system. I’ll post over on the Wicked Treo site if it works, for anyone else trying to blog on GeekLog from a Treo device.

I tripped across an interesting quote that, I just have to share after my post on fingernail data storage research –

The quote from one of my favorite writers:

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” — Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

And to think, I’ve been all distressed by the fact that I want both “high tech” and “simple” in my life. It never occurred to me that back in the 1800′s Thoreau would have a quote to forecast the solution to my “rub” on this topic. Now, if only I can manage to reduce the number of things I juggle to what will fit on my Palm, if not on my thumbnail — perhaps I’ll have arrived! I’m almost there now!

Also, in the name of simplicity (and easier navigation) I’ve added new blocks to the Life in the Woods section of the Wicked Blog so the Farm Story, Farm Chronicles, and additional personal stories can be seen from that section, without cluttering up the top of every page or meshing messily with the business entries. So, if you were reading the chapters and suddenly they disappeared, you now know where to find them again!

Until next time!

Interesting Point on the Topic of Teenagers

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My husband is brand new to the practice of parenting and has been ‘thrown to the lions’ because he went from bachelor to parent of TEENS by uttering the simple words “I do” – and yet he made an interesting (and enlightened) statement yesterday.

He said “It amazes me that teens believe they are immortal, and yet they REFUSE to do any planning for the future.”

I found it to be quite astute, and thought I’d share it with the rest of the world trying to properly parent teens — against all odds.

Cheers (and blessings) to all of you undertaking that super-human feat!

High School Reunion

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I attended my 20 year high school reunion this weekend. Even TYPING that makes me feel old. At the last minute, I almost didn’t attend. Life has been so overflowing with activities that it started to feel like just another obligation on a weekend when I could have rested up. But, I’m glad I attended. There were people there I’d not seen since the last day of school. Many looked essentially the same, a few years older, a few more pounds, and a bit less hair maybe – but essentially the same.

Others were amazingly improved – more glamorous, more “together,” more magnetic personalities than they had ever posessed in the teen years, and some had changed very little physically (which makes me feel even older, fatter and more gray) and some seem to have changed very little emotionally (which I find a bit depressing). Most folks had grown up, mellowed out and were charming conversationalists. Overall, there are several folks that I hope to get to know better as adults. Many I won’t see again until the 30 year, or later, I know this. But, I’m pleased that I attended and talking with some of the folks was really nice. Continue reading →