Priorities?

The person storing their boat at this abandoned property makes it look like we have our priorities messed up in Wisconsin if you don’t know the backstory…

April 3, 2012 0

Just frikkin’ do it already…

Are you glued to the computer all day like me? Get inspired by Gemma Stone…

Since I saw her video post last December, I have been trying to work walking into my life. I used to poo-poo walking as not being exercise ‘enough’ but lately my wife and I have been ‘power’ walking for 40 minutes a day and the benefits are amazing!

I use an app called Endomondo for my smartphone that tracks my distance and time and I use Pandora to give me some upbeat music to keep the pace up. Stop making excuses and join me! Everyone in your life will thank you…

April 3, 2012 2

This one goes out to all the WordPress.com bloggers

…that are using their blogs for content marketing and ‘thought leadership‘ marketing:

Here are some of the big takeaways:

Use Windows Live Writer or [MarsEdit if you’re a Maccie] to curate good content…
Use Zemanta to find related pictures, articles and metadata tags to engage readers…
Spend the money to get your own domain and apply it to your site…
Use the sharing feature to automatically post your new content to your Facebook profile or page, Twitter, etc.
Don’t forget the sharing buttons on every post and page if you want people to disseminate your content…
Put Twitter and Facebook widgets in your sidebar if you are using those tools [and you should be!]…

Ooops! Forgot to cover this;

Questions? Feedback? Comment below or connect above…

Zemanta is a good social media tool (zemanta.com)
Zemanta Upgraded with New UI, Link Reporting, and Link-Building for Users (zemanta.com)
Zemanta – Easy Semantic Blogging for Everyone (bhattibytes.wordpress.com)
[Almost] everything I think I know about the mechanics of curation (e1evation.com)

April 2, 2012 2

Nothing compares 2 u

Someone help me! I’m on a Prince jag and I can’t stop…

April 1, 2012 0

How have you made it so far…

…without this?

March 31, 2012 1

What are you sinking? :-)

Maybe it’s just my love of all things German or my interest in communication, but for whatever reason, I think this is the funniest commercial I have ever seen…

March 28, 2012 0

I wanna talk about me! :-D

Lately I’ve been on a country music jag on Pandora. This makes me laugh…

March 24, 2012 0

It’s Not Your Thoughts That Matter, But How You Feel About Them!

Kute Blackson shares these thoughts today…

There is so much talk these last few years about how important your thoughts are.

It’s like the latest trend to believe…

That your thoughts literally create your reality.

That you must only think positive thoughts.

Sometimes we get so scared about the slightest negative thought, that it freaks us out. We become negative about our negative thoughts.

We have over 65,000 thoughts each day, most of which are happening too fast to even keep a track of.

I have a secret for you!

It’s the SECRET secret: It’s not just what you think about that matters, but how you FEEL about what you think about that makes the real difference. Continue reading “It’s Not Your Thoughts That Matter, But How You Feel About Them!” →

March 21, 2012 0

Home, sweet home…

It always gives me great joy to come up our road and see our home and think about how blessed we are to live where we live, not having to deal with so many of the things our friends in big cities and their suburbs have to deal with…

Click image to enlarge…

March 19, 2012 0

Crazy Train

I’m not much of an Ozzy Osbourne fan but I heard the words to this song for the first time today and I actually thought it was quite good…

Crazy,but that’s how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it’s not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Drivin’ me insane
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I’ve listened to preachers
I’ve listened to fools
I’ve watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role
Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words
Yeah
Heirs of a cold war
That’s what we’ve become
Inheriting troubles I’m mentally numb
Crazy, oh do I care
I’m living with something under my skin
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what’s to blame
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train

Source: Ozzy Osbourne – Live2007 [ Crazy Train ] HQsound – YouTube

Maybe the reason I find it so profound is that I’ve been riding the crazy train lately and I’m stepping off. I’m taking it as a sign…

March 15, 2012 4

Harden my heart

Ya gotta love ’80’s music videos…

March 11, 2012 1

Algoma or Atlantic?

Hmmm. Seems like the windspeed should actually be higher looking at these photos, but apparently it only takes a 22mph wind to make Lake Michigan look like the Atlantic…

Here I am experimenting with two different ways of viewing pictures in WordPress…

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Clicking an image below will pull up a nice photo gallery. Both are great native features in WordPress.com!

March 10, 2012 1

Stuck in a moment?

I’m not afraid

Of anything in this world

There’s nothing you can throw at me

That I haven’t already heard

I’m just trying to find

A decent melody

A song that I can sing

In my own company

via U2 – STUCK IN A MOMENT LYRICS.

March 8, 2012 0

Snowy owl!

We finally got our first big snowstorm of the year last Friday afternoon. I just happened to be filming the trip down our road when I got a glimpse of my first owl in the wild…