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Prep
I grew up working in my mom’s deli shop. I was a terrible employee for many reasons, being the boss’ son didn’t help any of them. Regardless I did learn a few things while working there: make the customer happy, be quick, smile, and prep. Before any restaurant, deli, cafe, or food truck opens there…
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Rowing the distance
While my blogging habit has had difficulties recently, my indoor rowing routine has stuck to the training plan. I was worried that this training plan was too aggressive but so far so good. I have been sticking to the schedule and have completed every workout assigned. On average I am doing about 10km a day,…
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Rest day(s)
The severity of breaking a streak is dependent on what the streak pertains to. If it is a safety streak measuring the last time someone was seriously injured or killed on the job; then it’s a big deal to break that streak. If the streak is related to my Apple Watch’s activity rings, then breaking…
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Judgement
Kottke shared a link to this blog post the other day: My willingness to judge something should be proportional to how much I know about it. My Seatbelt Rule for Judgment I was just thinking about this concept the other day when judging other people, and the linked post also talks about applying this to…
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Long haul vs short term
Balancing immediate versus long term concerns is a constant dance that we all have to play. On one hand I need to eat today to stay alive but on the other I need to eat healthy to avoid a heart attack 10 years from now. I need to do my work today to stay employed…
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Minimum viable height
We have had our Roomba, we named it George, for a couple of months now and for the most part it is great. Neither Kate nor I are what you might call neat freaks. We are getting better about putting things away and having specific places for things to go, but we don’t obsess about…
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Even the mighty struggle
Dave Wiener, the RSS guy, recently posted about his experience as a customer with Apple. He had ordered an iPhone and something went wrong in the process of shipping it to him. So he reached out to customer support: When you call 1-800-MYAPPLE, an intelligent robot answers the phone, introduces itself as as such and…
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Don’t let up
In Dec of 2020 we drove across the US to get to Kate’s father during the holidays. Her mother passed earlier in the year and this would be her dad’s first holidays without her for over 50 years. Driving across the country in the winter can be a bad idea as the weather tends toward…
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Clear it out
Piggybacking off of yesterday’s post about dumping the tanks when selling a trailer; I wanted to also mention that the trailer was full of the sellers stuff. As soon as we entered the trailer we saw that he still had bedding on the bed, toys were in a few places and the closet had his…
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Dump the tanks
Sales is an art. There are a multitude of considerations to make when trying to sell something. Presentation, marketing, approach, attitude, persuasion, and the list goes on and on. Kate and I have started looking for a small camping trailer. We like camping in trailers for a number of reasons: you are up off of…