My new Hero

my new hero

Just Think

There’s an agency in town that I admire called Fast Horse. Jorg, the agency leader and a hell-of-a great guy, said something on a recent post on their blog that rings all too true for me too often:

“The average workday tends to be a series of reactions interrupted by the occasional fit of productivity. It’s not unusual for me to end my day with that sinking feeling that I worked my ass off and didn’t accomplish a thing.”

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It’s a great post about simply taking time to just think. I’m fortunate enough to have a 40-minute commute, so I get a nice chunk of time for this. That’s all I’ve got.

Go think

The First Four Words

 

The first four words I saw were:

• Naive
• Thoughtful
• Sincere
• Charming

It’s a nice sentiment, drawing conclusions about yourself that are mostly positive from a word search shaped as a smiling face. It’s nice and happenstance, and it’s so very flawed. Oh well…

That’s Not Gandalf!

If this doesn’t make you laugh, then we can’t be friends.

 

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This might be funny if it weren’t so painfully true.

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Grown-up

This is Sarah, Nate’s wife.

Nate has given me permission to share the good news! We bought a house.

This house…

We have been in the house about 9 days and this is how it has been going…

• Our closing costs were about $3,000 more than we expected.
• On moving day, we found that there is literally no way to get a couch in the family room unless it’s collapsible or made of something bendy – like rubber.
• It took us 3 full days to realize that we could get hot water by simply lighting the pilot light.
• Once we had hot water, our water heater started to drip…
• And then it started to drain a bucket’s worth every two minutes.
• The shower heads had hardcore calcium build up, but when we went to replace them with awesome new shower heads we realized that the previous owners had rubber cemented their shower heads on.
• Half of the shelves in our freezer are broken.
• Nate successfully hooked up a waterline to the freezer so we can use our ice maker, but once we pushed the fridge back it started spaying water everywhere. We had to go buy a mop.
• We took the cover off the back of the downstairs toilet to discover that it is black.
• Some of the light switches don’t always turn on, but when Nate went to replace them he found that they were wired all wrong. We now have a book entitled Basic Wiring Techniques: Complete guide to making your own electrical repairs.
• Comcast can’t get our line hooked up because there is a compost heap in the way. They left flags in our lawn a week ago, but have not come back to finish the project. That’s just typical Comcast, I guess. The “target date” is the 14th.
• Tonight I started to hear noises. At first I didn’t think much of it, because I was relaxing to Pink Floyd’s The Wall album which has plenty of nontraditional sounds to it. Turns out it wasn’t apart of that epic album. Nope, we have mice.
• After our trip tonight to get some caulk and mouse poison, we realized we have now been to Home Depot 12 times in 9 days.

We went into this thinking buying a house would be the best thing in the world. Full of fun decorating and naked Saturdays. Yet tonight, as we wandered the isles of Home Depot, we found ourselves saying, “Fucking Mice! I want to go back and not be grown up anymore!”

Naive fools, buying a house is not a awesome as you think.

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Well looky there, the page I’m running for my company hit a nice landmark not long after I shifted the strategy a bit.

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Look at the header image.

 

I’m still that boy jumping in the lake.