| Wide eyed and busy |
I currently, as I am almost constantly, challenged with managing my time. There's so many things worth doing out there, how best to pick and choose?
Things to do:
Healthy Relationships - Friends, family, girlfriend, etc. Arguably one of the most important things.
Day Job - Do things to make my employer more successful, and by extension, me.
TinySauce - Develop this tiny company between Wade and I into a viable pursuit. Things like 200nipples.com
Improv - Follow the fun, help grow the art and its exposure and my skill in it.
Other hobbies and interests - I've got a pile of 'em just waiting to get credence enough to be listed above.
How do you guys craft your days? How do you focus on just what is important? How do you tell what is important enough, and what isn't?
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| Testing for a filter |
| ignore this |
| I'm currently making an uuber blog feed and need to test it to see if its working funny or not. Stand by for awesomeness.
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| Life is Good |
Jamie is the awesomest girlfriend evar. The holidays were great. Got great presents and whatnot. But I got to take Jamie home for Christmas, which was a special treat in itself. Our official 6 month mark is coming up very soon. Yay.
I'm running a weekly improv drop-in workshop, a monthly improv workshop, re-building City3, facilitating KCiF, and assistant directing I-A. Improv is great.
My home has really come together. This Saturday is the Door Party. Come by and party if you like. 8 PM. Door prizes, door games, and all other door-related wonderfulness.
The job is rocking pretty well. Doing great websites, learning lots of great stuff around that, (which helps with TinySauce.com stuff), and bringing great new ideas to the table all the time. I still get to walk to work, wear pretty much whatever I want, and work with great people.
Sorry my online postings have gone down. Blogging just doesn't come as naturally these days. But don't worry, its a good thing.
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| On the WWI Memorial |
| as carved in 1918 |
| "These have dared bear the torches of sacrifice and service. Their bodies return to dust by their work liveth for evermore. Let us strive on to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace amongst ourselves and with all nations."
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| Chili Ninja |
| River City Studio's Chili Cookoff |
I won the trophy: a beaded ladle!
Connerly-Allen Chili
Brown:
1.25 pounds of ground chuck
1/2 of a large, white onion, diced
1/4 green pepper, chopped
salt
Drain grease.
Add:
1 can Brooks Medium Hot Chili Beans--MUST be Brooks.
1 can tomato soup-- not diluted
1 can tomato sauce (not tomato paste)
1 can (the soup or bean can rinsed out) tomato juice
Salt, pepper, chili powder, crushed red pepper, and Louisiana hot sauce to taste. Don't be shy.
Cook up a batch of large elbow macaroni.
Bring chili to boil for 10 minutes, then simmer as long as needed.
As it simmers, it will need more liquid, add more tomato juice
Put the macaroni in the bowl first with the chili on top, aka "Cincinnati style"
For buffet-style serving, pre-cook macaroni noodles a little underdone, then mix them into the crock pot.
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| 4 Years of Yes We Can |
| only 44 years after I Have A Dream |
From Lessig back in February:
"But there's one more crucial way in which Barack Obama can inspire, distinct from how Hillary Clinton could ever hope to inspire, and that's the inspiration he would offer towards peace. We in this country need to acknowledge to the world a certain mistake that most of us understand we made. At the height of insanity, after this extraordinary and horrible bombing, of our own citizens on our own territory, we were led into war by a president who didn't care to pay attention to the facts.
This was the biggest political blunder, perhaps ever, that an American president engaged. It was extraordinarily destructive – destructive to us and to them. If we're going to find peace here, then that peace will only come if we can signal our own change. A change that they understand is a change in who we are, a change that they can see.
So I want you to shut your eyes and imagine what it will seem like to a young man in Iraq or in Iran, who wakes up on January 21st, 2009, and sees the picture of this man as the president of the United States. A man who opposed the war at the beginning, a man who worked his way up from almost nothing, a man who came from a mother and a father of mixed cultures and mixed societies, who came from a broken home to overcome all of that to become the leader in his class, at the Harvard Law Review, and an extraordinary success as a politician. How can they see us when they see us as having chosen this man as our president?
There can be no clearer way that we could say, that we could say that the United States could say, that we have changed, than by electing this man. There is no way we could more clearly move on toward peace than this. He represents the very best of who we are, the best of character, of integrity and ideals. And someone who opposed the war from the start.
So Julie Cohen, here is my request: I agree with you nothing could be more important than this election and this candidate; but nothing could be more important also than solving this impossible war; not just by bringing the troops home, but also by enabling the peace. By enabling that peace, by beginning a process of forgiveness and of hope. That is the great hope that this new generation, represented in this leader, Barack Obama, gives us. And gives the world."
Today, Lessig's words come true:
""Americans overcame the racial divide and elected Obama because they wanted the real thing: a candidate who spoke from the bottom of his heart," said Terumi Hino, a photographer and painter in Tokyo. "I think this means the United States can go back to being admired as the country of dreams." "
I am so proud to be an American.
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