Category: Blog
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Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia
Today I learned how to download and run your own copy of Wikipedia in it’s entirety. There’s a lot of information out there but for my ADHD brain this was the first video I found that was the simple and fast to get started. After watching it though, all I really needed to know was…
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Upping My Blogger Game
I came across a Hacker News post regarding the year’s most popular bloggers. And the first one really struck me. It’s Simon Willison and his approach to running a link blog. I’ve been blogging off and on (mostly off) since blogging was a thing. I usually lose interest and end up deleting my effort. But…
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Milestone: 10 Hours of Music Practice
I just had a milestone yesterday, of 10,000 left hand strokes. Today I crossed the tenth hour of music practice (since I started tracking). It seems inconsequential having two small ones so close together. But it’s still encouraging. It means I’ve had 10 days of deliberate practice, not just screwing around whimsically. A solid hour…
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Modified Pomodoro Technique
I have been practicing music daily for about a couple of weeks now. My intention is to practice one hour per day. I set a timer on my phone and give myself the whole day to complete the task. Something about the timer really speaks to me… Today it occurred to me that it’s really…
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Music is an Hour a Day
I think a lot. With the number of ideas I get in a single day, I wonder why I’m not a billionaire? Today’s idea is to practice music every day. Not a new idea, I know. It’s more like a decision. Today I made this decision to solidify exactly how many minutes I will practice…
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Blog Posts Instead of Morning Pages?
I’m a big fan of Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way method of writing for 20 minutes first thing in the morning. I love it so much I just crossed 1.5 million words. I do break the rule though and write on my computer instead pen and paper. Are there really rules in life when it’s for…
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On Quitting Coffee
I’m in the process of quitting coffee. Forever? Probably not. I love quitting coffee apparently. I’ve done it many times. Dozens perhaps. Coffee has me. An addiction. And I hate it. I hate that. I want it to go away forever. I do want to quit. But why? It just doesn’t feel right. I prefer…
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Father and Son Bonding Moment
My son loves video games. A little too much actually, and I have some parental guilt about it. Despite having been a gamer myself since the same age, which for me was the Atari 2600. I spent whole days and weeks back then battling dragons as a knight in the shape of a single square.…
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Jigsaw Puzzles Are My Kind of ADHD
I don’t know if I have ADHD, but sometimes I think so. I hate doing tasks that do not interest me, and I can go a long ways in trying to get of things that don’t interest me. I also daydream a lot. Especially when people are talking. If I do have ADHD, one thing…
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You’re Breaking the Law
You see this criminal? Breaking the law right before your eyes. Do you see it? Because I sure didn’t. This is my first dog. I don’t know much about dogs other than what I’ve observed from friends and family that have them. And when we got this one, at 50+ pounds, it was clear she…