2018-4-28 -- I’m sitting at Pearly’s Farmhouse Café in West Cornwall, Connecticut, waiting for my pulled chicken BBQ pizza with carmelized onions and roasted corn, drinking a blessed cup of coffee after my drive down from Boston. The trip wasn’t…
Read more2018-4-28 -- And so it begins ...
The car's packed, well, more like stuffed, and I've reached that point in a journey where if it's not in the luggage, it's not going. That's not actually true - I'm not flying to Morocco. There are Walmarts everywhere, so…
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2018-3-30 -- The Little Yellow Notepad Method
Everybody’s got a “system” for dealing with “stuff.” You’ve got to have one, even if it’s just “I’m only going to take care of serious issues” – like bills, cleanliness, social appropriateness – everything else is on a need-to-address basis…
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2018-3-27 -- T minus 32
What? I’m leaving in 32 days? Time to enter panic mode. So much to do, so little time. Big things, small things, a few roadblocks to resolve. However, I’ve finished one massive task: my detailed itinerary is now worked out. This is great because lots of other things depend on it. It looks like this:
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2018-3-1 -- What comes after the to do list?
It's traditional for a guy for tackle his to do list when he retires. To do lists are like a bank account; unfortunately, they're debits, not assets - they are tasks you owe, time you borrowed to do something…
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