I used to have a running “To Do” list in my head. No need to write it down because it was in the Fort Knox of my cranium. As I age I realized I would miss a few things, my brain must have a memory leak somewhere. Either way, I could no longer trust myself to remember every little “To Do” item virtually.
I started writing “To-Do” lists. My list even has mundane tasks like picking up the little presents my dog leaves in the backyard to refueling my vehicle. These things started becoming overwhelming though as the list grew and grew. As the list grew, so did my anxiety about completing the list. It’s the never-ending-to-do-list-syndrome I suffer from now.
I then broke down the list into things that needed to be done “today”, “this week”, and some “undisclosed time frame in the future.” That last one is a pretty long title, but I assure you it is fairly important stuff. That one includes items like “Do YOUR taxes from 2010 you lazy bum!” Go ahead, give me grief, I know I should have had it done but remember I didn’t have my list broken down before so the mundane often would get done before the more important things in life.
Now my “To-Do” list is always open on my computer so I can cross things off as I get them done, but the first thing on the list is “update the ‘To-Do’ list.” I’ve found that having that be the first item essentially guarantees success because within an hour of waking up, I’ve already got one thing done. It may seem trivial to anyone without some anxiety issues, but it brings me down a notch every morning.
I hate to say it, but this doesn’t surprise me. Twitter said it was entering “countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression”. It was really just a matter of time before certain countries would put stipulations of use on Twitter. Take Google for instance. They even have what they term a “Transparency Report”, which looks like a PR move to diplomatically, and in politically correct verbiage, report on the items censored in various countries. In my opinion this just means that Twitter has “hit the big time” worldwide. In my opinion, the countries asking for censorship now feel to protect their political paradigm they have to ask for Twitter’s cooperation.
A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.
“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.
Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries
WTF, Twitter???
….and on the day I met you I had a chance to wear some just to see the look on your face. Opportunity missed. Drats!
P.S. I don’t own a pair, but I should have bought them just for the said missed opportunity.
seriously why do you guys insist on wearing that?
(Source: lipstickandkisses)
Happy Halloween
(3D Pumpkin by Ray Villafane, the Pumpkin Carving Master. More here: http://villafanestudios.com/ )
“I should be frustrated but I can’t seem to stop thinking about beautiful things…” It sounds like his head and heart are in the same place. It reminds me of something Mahatma Ghandi said,”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
I certainly hope for those things for him. Get well soon John, I can’t wait to see you on that stage again soon.
Hey all…
I wanted to give you an update on the granuloma just above my vocal cord. I had surgery this afternoon to remove it and am now on complete vocal rest for a month or more. It’s been a very long process in waiting to see if time was an alternative to surgery, but even given two weeks’…
