Phera

09/15/2016

Grocery shopping sucks the very life out of me. What do you do to stay sane when shopping?

08/31/2016

Nothing like a good garage sale to clear the soul!

08/27/2016

Garage sale-ing today. It feels so good to see my cherished possessions find new homes.

09/02/2015

Today I got a phone call today from a listener and took a trip down memory lane. Things have changed so much since my first podcast in May of 2008! What's the same in your life? What's different now?

12/20/2012

Love listening to music while you work? Check out Focus@will - they're in beta now, you can use the invite code bemoreproductive

11/12/2012

Stuff accumulates entirely too quickly. I'm in the process of shedding some serious junk and I'm wondering how it's possible to have this much stuff!

08/06/2012

Anyone ever play chore wars? What was your experience?

Recruit a party of adventurers from your household or office, and log your chores to claim experience points for them.

12/05/2011

Took a look at the podcast page. It's been a while! I miss podcasting, may have to start up again.

07/08/2011

I've been using Google Buzz since it came out, and really love it. Google Plus is its successor, and it's been working really well for me. I like that it is a combination social bookmark tool, group chat, and newsreader. Rather than trying to follow the most up to date email within a group you can click on the discussion thread to see what everyone has had to say. Check it out, let me know if you need an invite

The Google+ project aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Check out Circles, Sparks, and Hangouts, just a few of the things we've been working on.

07/06/2011

My mom used to always clean the house before we left for a vacation or even a long weekend away. Looks like she was putting these principles in play. I do the same, never really thought about why I did it, but it really does help.

Drowning under a mountain of paperAh, the joy of long holiday weekends. They re-energize, revitalize and send you back to work... feeling you like you've slept in late and got a term paper due at noon. The reasons for this are unclear--vacations are planned for, coworkers notified to pick up the sla

07/06/2011

Some days are just really random. I wasn't dreaming and I have the pic to prove it: the guy in front of me was a real turkey :)

07/05/2011

When we travel across time zones I make it a pretty hard and fast rule that I'm up by 8AM and stay out of bed until 10PM even if it means being a zombie for those last few hours. I'm in full zombie mode and counting the minutes 'til I can go to sleep!

07/04/2011

I have some pretty amazing people in my life. One of them (not quite sure who) called us Super Secret Awesome Sauce. I love that (& them!!) I'm going to try to blog every day this month as well as post links to their blogs all month long.

06/16/2011

I'd rather not iron, but if it's gotta be done, here are some tips to get a shirt ironed in 3 minutes or less

Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done

06/14/2011

Sometimes it pays to procrastinate: I had two weeks of laundry that hadn't made it back into the dressers. I pulled out everything in the drawers and put the clean laundry away-If you wash it, they're wearing it-and then went through everything that was left. I've done this fairly regularly for years, but it's always surprising how much of the stuff left in drawers hardly gets worn.

05/24/2011

Wrapping my mind around this today: "It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing," the philosopher A.N. Whitehead explained back in 1911. "The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."

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