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Hey, my little Gingersnaps! Spank and I have decided to consolidate our FB pages into ONE PAGE
THAT WILL RULE THEM ALL that will promote both this blog and Spank's "Spank You Silly" blog. Not only that, but we will post funny videos, links and pictures throughout the day as well as doing Special Edition: Spank and Ginger Show blog posts! But wait, there's more!!! We will also be doing more book giveaways, which we will promote on our page. Don't miss out on the fun! Don't forget to share with your friends and "Like" our page!
Saturday, January 25, 2014
New Facebook Page, now with Spank too!!
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Monday, October 28, 2013
"The Wikomsette" Giveaway Winners!!!
Wow, we only had 5 entries for this contest (probably since I went on hiatus for so long and lost my readers *sob*) but lucky for you 5 people, the chances of winning was really good! Ready for the two winners of the giveaway? Who will win a digital copy of "The Wikomsette" by Emerald Lavere???
The first winner is...
The second winner is...
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Friday, October 18, 2013
Book Review and Giveaway! (The Wikomsette)
Howdy Peeps! It's the very last day of the Wikomsette Blog Tour! What is the "Wikomsette" you ask? Well it's a book a long time friend of mine wrote and the story was so intriguing and original that not only did I ask her if I could write a review and promote it, I also decided I would give away a digital copy of it to two lucky winners who leave a comment here.
Let me first tell you about my friend, Emerald Lavere...
(look at those gorgeous legs she has from dancing! She earned those baby!)
Emerald Lavere is a forty-something wife, mother, dancer, singer, writer, lover of comic book heroes and heroines, good dark chocolates (especially with liquor in them), and many different flavors of art, books, and men!
A fan of just about every genre, she aims to write stories that contain something her readers will find sweet, and something surprising as well. If hot, explicit, sexual encounters happen to be included in those stories, well, it's really not her fault. She is only recording the facts of what happens in the alternate universes, that the voices in her head tell her about. Often the voices won't shut up until their stories have been told, so really, what else can she do?
Living in Southern California with her family and a fluffy dog she met at the local shelter, Ms. Lavere enjoys time with her family, reading, and walks. A former professional performer, she now dances for fun whenever possible, and sings often, and loudly, in her car. When she has alone time and is not working on her writing, she enjoys watching old Smallville episodes, because hot damn, there are some fine ass men on that show.
(she's also a pretty awesome friend)
Connect with Emerald:
Website: http://www.emeraldlavere.com
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
Now, about her book, "The Wikomsette"...
Here is the official description:
Title: The Wikomsette
Author: Emerald Lavere
Genre: Erotic Sci-Fi
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Regina lost her husband four years ago. Now she lives a solitary life—by choice. But her preferences are tossed aside when an unseen force drops her into a remote jungle. There, a mysterious band of handsome, athletic men are waiting to show her that the woman who takes on their tribe has no chance to remain lonely...or unsatisfied. Enlisted as the group's "Wikomsette" or "Wife", her emotional and physical desires are at first resurrected, then fulfilled.
Eight men, but only one will truly claim her heart. Niku, the leader, is the first to re-awaken desire in Regina. Brannon, second in command is the most stunningly beautiful man she has ever seen, but his sweet talking may only lead to another heartbreak. Most of the other men could win her over as well, with some exceptions, such as Ax, who infuriates her mind as strongly as he melts her body.
Maneuvering her way through the tribe emotionally, is not Regina's only concern. Kept in the dark about who they are and what their mission is, leaves her to consider several theories. Could they be covert military men? Aliens? Part of a secret cult? Eventually she will learn not only the shocking truth of who they are, but that she may play a much bigger role in the mission than any of them could have guessed, changing forever the course of her life, and of all life on Earth.
Maneuvering her way through the tribe emotionally, is not Regina's only concern. Kept in the dark about who they are and what their mission is, leaves her to consider several theories. Could they be covert military men? Aliens? Part of a secret cult? Eventually she will learn not only the shocking truth of who they are, but that she may play a much bigger role in the mission than any of them could have guessed, changing forever the course of her life, and of all life on Earth.
Now for my review: Okay, when I first started reading this book and learned of the premise, I wasn't sure I was going to like this book (despite the author being my friend). Hey, I give honest reviews here, friends or not! BUT (and that's a BIG but) I found myself quickly sucked into the story and found myself in Regina's place, not only rooting for her but also rooting for so many of the other characters. And while I thought this story wasn't going to be up my alley, I ended up loving it. It turned me upside down and made me rethink the situation, which I found I ended up loving and could even put myself in Regina's place and understand the culture which I thought I couldn't get past. And boy do I love when authors introduce a story that is so original and thought provoking. Once I started reading it, I literally could not put it down. I kept reading through the night into the wee hours of the morning until I finished it. So heck yeah, I'm proud of my friend's book (even if she never told me she was writing it until after, silly girl!)
Wikomsette excerpt:
"After several failed attempts to get more information out of Sebastian, he told me we'd done enough work for now, and escorted me back to my apartment. I wasn't positive but had a strong inkling that I'd just been put in a time-out for being nosy.
Considering ways that I might coax more information out of this bunch, and who I should target for that, I was shortly jolted back to my primary duty when an unexpected man entered my room.
"Brannon," I said, surprised. "I thought Rayne—"
"No." With a dreamy look in his eyes and two quick steps to cross the room, he put his hands on my face. "Rayne will not come, and Captain Niku has passed over his turn with you." He wrapped his arms around me, kissing my face, hair, neck, drowning me in that incredible scent… This wasn't good. I needed time to mentally prepare for Brannon, to keep myself from being swept away. Niku, that's who I'd think about. What was his deal? He stood me up? What the hell? Was he too good for me now?
It was difficult to shut Brannon out of my mind and heart while that warm voice washed over me. As before, he talked through our encounter, except in English this time. He poured his heart out, knowing I could now understand. "Regina, Regina," he repeated while pulling his clothes off. I removed mine in a daze. "It has been agony, waiting for you. Waiting for you to arrive, and now, now that you are here and you are so much more than I ever dreamed of. It is unbearable to wait these many days."
No no no! I panicked inside as tears threatened to appear. He wasn't allowed to do this to me. How could he feel so strongly about me, anyway? They were just words. Maybe pretending he was so into me helped him get off. That must be it. He was a romantic, and it was all part of the fantasy. I took a deep breath, relieved. Yes, that was it. He didn't really mean what he said. I had to be smart and not let him toy with my emotions just because he enjoyed pretty words.
He pushed his nakedness against mine, kissing me fervently and caressing every bit of skin he could reach. "Please," he said, coaxing me onto the bed. While on my back, his hands glided over my body, even to my toes. Then he brought his face back to mine. "I adore you, my goddess, Regina."
I moaned in pleasure, giving myself permission to relish his body and his scent. I just had to ignore those damn words."--------------------------------------------------------------
So here's the fun part. I'm giving away two digital copies of this book! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment. You have until Sunday evening at 9pm Eastern time to enter the giveaway. The winners will be announced on Monday.
aaaaaaand..... GO!
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Monday, October 7, 2013
Introducing... Poo-Pourri. The "before-you-go" toilet spray, to add to the myth that your sh*t smells like roses. Or one of 20 aromatherapy scents, like Eucalyptus & Spearmint or Mandarine, Tangerine & Lily, etc.
Don't believe me? Watch the video...
You can even send away for your free sample (which is technically not free because you have to pay $3 for shipping/handling).
Go ahead, check out the hilarious website of Poo-Pourri, which has YouTube testimonials and Amazon reviews of satisfied POOers.
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Monday, August 26, 2013
Spank and Ginger Show: Just Say No-No
Those of you who have been here from the beginning will remember that this blog started out being called "The Spank and Ginger Show". After awhile, Spank had to take a break from blogging, so this blog carried on with Spank's support as the name, "Gingersnaps in the Morning". But we are going to start having some "Spank and Ginger Show" specials, starting with today! Woo Hoo! The topic...
The No-No Hole
This is my term for your butt hole and is self-explanatory regarding my my feeling about it.
Spank: "No, go ahead and explain it. Tell us how you really feel."
Ginger: "I feel like there is only one use for the no-no hole. It's a one-way street, one direction only."
Spank: "So It's okay if it's Harry Styles?"
Ginger:" I have no idea who that is, but that doesn't change my mind about the no-no hole. I mean, there is nothing worse than reading a good book with a steamy love scene, where all the sudden someone sticks their finger up the other person's no-no hole. Kills the mood, and makes me want to throw my Kindle."
Spank: "What if it's not a finger?"
Ginger: *pauses to avoid gagging* "That's even worse. Owwww. I call it a no-no hole for a reason. No back door passes for me. Nuh uh. No way. Not gonna happen."
Spank: "There are some men that get a free pass."
Ginger: "I'm not even gonna ask. No seriously, if you're reading a steamy love scene and someone sticks their finger up the no-no hole, that doesn't affect you one bit?"
Spank: "Oh it affects me."
Ginger: O_o "Okay, I was reading this one story. During the love scene the guy stuck his finger up the girl's no-no hole and after they were done, they fell asleep. Did the guy wash and disinfect in finger before falling asleep??? Does he know there is e.coli on his finger?"
Spank: "Did you ever think it's finger-licking good?"
Ginger: *ignores that question* "I mean, he could give himself (or her) pink eye if he didn't disinfect his finger after!!
Spank: "PINK EYE!!! hahahahaha. That's what you're concerned about?!"
Ginger: "That's just one of MANY concerns about business with the no-no hole".
Spank: "Good sex is supposed to be dirty."
Ginger: "Well if someone insists on getting "dirty" with the no-no hole, the least they can do is wear Shittens.
Spank: "What the Hell are Shittens?"
Ginger: "They're disposable wipes in the shape of mittens, for keeping your hands sanitary while dealing with poo.
They even wrote a song about it."
Spank: "Now I've seen everything."
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Monday, August 12, 2013
My Other Blog
Hello my lovely readers. You know I've taken an extremely long sabbatical from blogging, and I promise there are very good reasons. One of the reasons why, I've blogged about over there (not for the faint of heart) on my personal blog Another reason is something I'm legally avised to not discuss, but I hope sometime I can. So I'm slowly getting my blogging fingers wet again. Wait, that sounds dirty. I'm starting with resurrecting my personal blog, I Love Purple More Than You, starting with a fabulous new makeover, and will then get back to doing posts over here. Whether the posts here are in the same format as before, is something I'll decide soon. But I will tell you, that in a couple of week, we will have a very special post of
The Spank and Ginger Show!
That's right. For those who haven't followed this from the beginning, this blog started as the Spank and Ginger Show. It unfortunately was happening at a bad time in real life and Spank was not able to continue. With her blessing, I continued on and renamed it Gingersnaps in the Morning. BUT, this blog will never forget its roots, which is why we will periodically have Spank and Ginger Show Specials... the first one coming in just a few weeks. Woo Hoo! It will be a doozy. CANNOT WAIT!! In the meantime, if you want to read some of what I've been writing about on my personal blog to tide you over until I start this machine back up, hop on over to:
I Love Purple More Than You
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Monday, June 10, 2013
More Than Purple
(This was initially intended for my "ilovepurplemorethanyou" blog but it is having some technical difficulties)
Recently it was time to repaint our purple house. If you want to know how our house became purple you can read about it here.
We've had the same painter for over 10 years. He's the one who painted it purple in the first place. He's from Korea and is a 5th degree black belt in Tai Kwan Do and a 3rd degree black belt in Hap Ki Do. When he arrived in America over 30 years ago, he joined the U.S. Olympic Team and became an Olympic Champion. Why is he now a painter? Because he was the first born son and in his culture, he was given the option of joining his father's painting company or being disowned by the family. His younger brother started his own Martial Arts school and our Jason helps out with it, as well as participates as a judge during competitions.
Since our kids are Kung Fu trained, and our oldest son Haven is almost a black belt, it was indeed an honor for Haven to spar with Jason, our painter in our home dojo.
With the house, we decided to do a couple of things different this time. We chose a purple that was one shade lighter for the stucco than the previous color, for more contrast between the stucco and trim.
Also, for a few years I've been saying to Marshall... "If only we could find a way to add glitter to the stucco." Marshall would roll his eyes, but when it was time to repaint the house I brought it up again. He said, "No way!" and then compromised and said I could have a purple glittery front door. My response, "We can't have a purple glittery front door! Our front door has to be white, like the windows, for contrast against the purple!!!"
I dropped the subject. A few days later he said to me, "Okay, if Jason can do it, you can add glitter to the stucco." WOO HOO!!!!
So Jason came over to get the new color swatch for the stucco and to discuss repainting the house. I told him I wanted to add glitter to the stucco. He had to pull out his smart phone and find out from his Korean-English app what "glitter" was. Guess in the 30 years he's been here, he's never had to learn the word "glitter". As soon as he learned what it was, he looked up at me like I was joking. He said, "I've never done that before." And I placed my hand on his shoulder and said, "Just think Jason, after this project, you'll be a master at it." And he said, "I'm not sure I want to be a master at it." Jason knows I'm a little crazy. He's been painting for us for over 10 years.
I told Jason I wanted clear, iridescent glitter added to the stucco. Then Jason did a series of patches, with various techniques, etc. before finding the best way to add it. The winning technique? When adding the second coat of paint on the stucco, he would blow the glitter on the wet paint with an airbrush machine. He used eye protection but apparently one piece of glitter still got in his eye during the project and he had to go to the eye doctor. But he didn't complain. And he got into it by the end, even adding glitter to the three triangles above the garage window, and he put twice the glitter in the entryway so it would sparkle extra. He repainted the cement floor of our patio (dark purple) and added two kinds of glitter to it.
And guess what? Our whole family loves it. Even Marshall! I've had 3 different neighbors walk over to our house and tell us how much they like the glitter, and they were all men! Our Harley riding, Hummer driving 6'4 next door neighbor said he thought it was the best house paint job he'd ever seen. (and went in to say how pretty it was at various times of the day) It really does sparkle like diamonds. I love it. So the finished result??? Here is our house with the new paint job.
Oh, can't see the glitter? Well you need video for that. Here's my reaction to seeing the entry way glitter for the first time, before they were finished with the house.
I don't know why my husband lets me do crazy things like this, but I think there's nothing wrong with adding a little more "fun" into your life. And for us, that means having a purple sparkly house. Yeah, I'm a little quirky. But I always have a smile on my face when I back out of my driveway or pull into my driveway and see my purple, sparkly house.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Mlawanda, Ganizani email@example.com URN etd-07292011-140025 Document Title Inter and intra-laboratory variability of CD4 : a pragmatic analysis Degree MSc Department School of Health Systems and Public Health Supervisor
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Date 2012-04-13 Availability unrestricted AbstractBackground: Measuring CD4 levels is the key laboratory investigation for decision making when initiating HAART, a tertiary prevention measure to reduce HIV/AIDS mortality and morbidity. Inherent biological and analytical variability is common during CD4 enumeration. We cannot control biological variation but how significant is analytical variation to clinical decision making.
Objectives: To quantify inter and intra laboratories analytical variation of CD4 counts and percentages and to determine the degree to which time lapse after sample collection contributes to the analytical coefficient of variation (CV%).To estimate the extent of disease misclassification due to CD4 variability if CD4 < 350cells/mm3.
Setting: This study was conducted at the HIV clinics of RSSC Hospital, a sugar-cane estate health institution located on the north-east of Swaziland, in Lubombo district, the worst affected by HIV/AIDS in Swaziland. The laboratories involved were Lancet, Good Shepherd (GSH) and National Reference (NRL) laboratories.
Study design and method: An analytical diagnostic, cross-sectional (observational) study was used in this study. Using a convenience sampling technique and after obtaining consent from participants, blood was collected in EDTA tubes and sub-divided into three samples, each for Lancet, GSH and NRL. The samples were further split into two at each respective laboratory, one of which was run at 12hours and the other at 24hours from the time of sample collection.
Main outcome measures: Student t-test; analytical coefficient of variation (CV%); Bland and Altman (BA) method bias and limits of confidence; BA plots and percentage difference plots; concordance correlation, Pearson and Kappa coefficients; McNemar test for comparison of paired proportion.
Results: Fifty three participants consented for participation and of these twenty eight participants were male. The mean CD4 was 373.4 cells/mm3 for Lancet, 395.9 cells/mm3 for NRL and 439.2 cells/mm3 for GSH and subsequent paired t-test revealed some inherent variability. The CV% for CD4 count was 3.5%, 8.4% and 20.1 whilst bias was 7.0, 13.5 and 8.2 for NRL, Lancet and GSH respectively. CD4% had even stronger CV% for all three laboratories. Inter-laboratory bias for Lancet/NRL was -31.5; -64.3 for Lancet/GSH and -38.2 for NRL/GSH at 12hours for CD4 count with only Lancet/GSH having a clinically interchangeable limit of agreement. At 24hours, the trends were similar, possibly confirming stability of CD4 between 12 and 24hours. An assessment of disease misclassification at HAART initiation threshold was performed. The agreement was 81.1% for Lancet/NRL, 88.7% for Lancet/GSH and 77.4% for NRL/GSH corresponding to Kappa values of 0.64, 0.77 and 0.55 respectively. McNemar test for paired proportions revealed that there were no differences between the laboratories when it came to initiating HAART.
Conclusions: whilst intra-laboratory variability is minimal, there is some significant inter-laboratory variation of CD4 count and CD4% at the laboratories used in Swaziland. Swaziland should ensure standard SOPs, on -going training and continuous quality improvements for all national laboratories and ensure standards are on par with international recommendations. The national HIV guidelines should possibly enforce two different CD4 counts in decision making to reduce systematic errors. Meanwhile, clinicians should continue to use their clinical judgment in cases of suspicious CD4 count results.
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Easy melee attack kills
Use the Wristblades, Glaive, or Maul. Lock on your prey. Approach next to the opponent and start walking around it while giving one blow, walk, give one blow, and walk.
How to beat Prototype Ulysses
Approach his back and press Jump when a symbol appears above the Ulysses head. The Predator will jump over the robot and kill it with a single blow. REMEMBER: This does not works with the gray Ulysses Prototypes with red lines.
Dead Men Walking Uncle Sam poster
In the Dead Men Walking level, you can see a poster of Uncle Sam on the sides of the Sanctuary.
No Predator sounds
Use the free camera and moves it down until you can see the Predator from below. If you make any movement (for example, use the War Cry, Voice Mimmicry, or the attack buttons), no sound can be heard. However, if you adjust the free-camera you will hear the sounds again.
Bonus missions
Every mission requiring a certain person to be killed will have a bonus mission symbol over their head.
Midsummer Night Massacre
Go towards the waterfront and locate an enemy with a bonus mission icon over his head.
Go towards the waterfront and locate an enemy with a bonus mission icon over his head.
Dead Man Walking
Locate and open two explosive crates.
Death In The Family
At the top of the mansion's stairs, move past the red curtains and take your new trophy.
Under The Gun
After completing the timed section of the mission, locate and destroy three pick-up trucks with weapons on their beds.
Skin Trade
Before taking out all the pimps, terminate eight prostitutes by any means.
Sink The Shipment
An entry gate near the shed with the Pulse Mines and Maul has several Les Serviteurs ogling some ex-porn star prostitutes. Terminate the Serviteur leader from a distance when you have to search for Pulse mines.
Raze The Depot
Near where the Predator starts, there are several enemies in an inaccessible room. One of them is the bonus target. Take him out when the chance arise.
Night To Remember
In the museum courtyard where Borgia's lieutenants are located, take out all the window snipers.
Extinction Event
Stay cloaked and head through the first gate to kill the corrupt police chief.
There is a weapons scientist in a depressed area of the lab. Killing him will fulfill this objective.
Use any of the Borgia security guards to open all the retinal scan doors (the scanner extends, and there is no intermission sequence). Kill the Juvenile-9 Leader
Ten Thousand Ways to Die
Locate and activate the three cloaked beacons. Tech view will make them easy to find.
Come To MOTHER
Destroy all four upgraded battle armor suits in the room where the main lift is located.
Hot Time/Old Town
Stealth kill the Black Ops in the recreation without raising the alarm level.
If It Bleeds
Disable the cooling fans in order (from one to four).
Bug Hunt
Kill fifty aliens before returning to MOTHER's chamber.
In The Flesh
Destroy the computer in the upper levels. It may be a good idea to do this bonus mission before the assassins come to help.


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What is meant by exurban migration?
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The term "exurban migration" is the same as what is sometimes called "reverse migration." This is migration in which, instead of moving from more rural areas to an urban core, businesses and residents move out of a central city to communities that are outside the central city's ring of suburbs.
In the past, the trend was for businesses and people to centralize. Big cities grew up because of this trend. Exurbs (wealthy area beyond the suburbs) tended to empty and become, at most, bedroom communities or commuter towns. However, in the past few decades (in the United States, at least) this trend has reversed. The idea of living in a central city or of having a business located in such an area has become less popular. As this has happened, suburbs and even exurbs have boomed.
Exurban migration, then, is this "reverse" movement out of the cities and into relatively distant, exurban communities.
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High School Baseball
Swing for the fences with extended coverage of Long Island high school baseball.
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Mercy's opponent
Mercy will play Tuckahoe (Section I) in the Southeast Regional Class C final tomorrow at 4 p.m. at St. Joseph's College. The winner will play in the state semifinals Saturday in Binghamton. Tuckahoe defeated S.S. Seward today, 2-1. Mercy split two games against S.S. Seward during the season....Read more »
John Cruz's defense, Abbate lead Division
The ad-hoc crew of Very Important High School Baseball Guys over at Farmingdale State have decided: that was the best catch they'd ever seen. First - the important stuff: Division defeated Shoreham-Wading River, 7-1, to punch its ticket to the state tournament in Binghamton. But that catch. Oh, that catch.
Division is up 4-1 in the fifth. Runner on, two outs, Ryan McAlary up. In...Read more »
Steven Ascher dominates for Mattituck
Most of the Mattituck baseball team was worried about lefthander Steven Ascher pitching on short rest for the first time. He quickly quelled those fears. He retired the side in order in the first inning, including two strikeouts and Mattituck scored three runs in the bottom of the first and that was all Ascher needed. He threw a one-hitter, walked none, and struck out 13 in an 8-0 win over Oyster...Read more »
LIC/Regional schedule
Sunday June 5
Long Island championships
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Class B: Mattituck vs. Oyster Bay, 10:30 am Class A: Shoreham-WR vs. Division, 1:30 pm Class C: McGann-Mercy vs. Friends Academy, 4:30 pm Class AA: Sachem North vs. Carey, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday June 7
Southeast Regional finals
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Carey-MacArthur, the director's cut
Thanks to tight deadlines, excellent pitching, and the do-or-die nature of Tuesday's Carey-MacArthur Nassau Class AA final, I had about three versions of the same article written in my Word document. This one had more storylines than General Hospital, y'all. Of course, by now you know that No. 4 Carey defeated No. 2 MacArthur, 3-0, to advance to the Long Island Championship. You know, also, that...Read more »
Island Trees-Division Game 2, the live blog
Howdy folks, Laura Albanese here from Farmingdale State as No. 3 Island Trees tries to even it up against Division, which defeated the Bulldogs, 5-1, yesterday.
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CHSAA Game 2 moved and time changed
Game 2 of the CHSAA finals between No. 1 St. Dominic and No. 2 Chaminade has been moved to Holy Trinity and begin at 1 p.m. today. Game 3, if necessary, was also scheduled to be played today, but will not. Only one game will be played today. Chaminade leads the series after an 8-2 win yesterday....Read more »
Baseball's Memorial Day Matinee, a preview
I know it's summer when I'm spending a sun-soaked day in the Farmingdale State press box. Tis that time of year again - one of the biggest, baddest days in high school baseball and we here at Newsday have got y'all covered. I thus present to you, a preview:
Class AA final, Game 1
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Our expectations were in check after researching reviews for the Disney cruise line for months on this and other sites. I must say that my expectations were exceeded in just about every area. We are not "Disney-ites", but we have been to the park a time or two. Everything on the entire cruise was really nice, but we are not fancy people either. We like going out to dinner, but we are more Chili's and Outback people than Ruth's Chris. If expectations are set appropriately you will have an amazing trip. In my opinion, the reason for a lot of the negative reviews is that people pay a premium to go on Disney and expect dramatic differences. The differences are subtle, but they all add up to a value our family is comfortable with.
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1. The ship was completely sold out in the early part of February. We spoiled our kids by letting them out of school for several days, and obviously many other families did the same. The great thing More was that there was only 1 time that I felt crowded during the entire trip (Goofy pool on a sea day afternoon). We never had to wait in a line for food, shows, embarkation, debarkation, etc. Disney excels at people flow, and it was clearly a differentiating factor for us.
2. My kids did not really take to the Kids Lab and Club. They love school, preschool, church groups, etc. and we thought that we would be fighting for their attention all week. The strange surroundings and all new faces made my usually outgoing kids a little more reserved when we were not around. This did not detract from our enjoyment as we went to have a lot of family time. If you are counting on the Kids areas to draw all kids in just be cautious. The Club area was clearly geared for younger kids, and even my kids who were in the top end of the expected range really appeared out of place. We went for a Snow White event in the Club and my 5 and 7 year old were by far the oldest playing games that made them feel like they were 3. The workers were pretty good, but they are not going to go the extra mile to pull kids in when they have so many other kids. If your kids are approaching 5 or entering kindergarten the Lab is the place that they should start. We made the mistake of starting with the Club and they never got excited about the kids areas again. Like I said, this was not a big deal to us as there was tons to do as a family.
3. If food is the main reason you go on a cruise, a different line is for you. It was pretty hard to find food at certain times that was not a hot dog, pizza or other fast food. On other less pricey cruises we had enjoyed sushi mid afternoon or wings and salsa before the early show. They had some snacks like this available at times, but it was not readily available when we wanted it. I will plan ahead better on eating times next time we go as my wife was heard saying several times that week "I can't believe I am hungry on a cruise". The buffet food was always very good and our service at dinner was also good. When we boarded the ship we went straight to the pools and had the pools virtually to ourselves for a long time while everybody else started with lunch. We thought this was great until everything shut down really early to give staff a chance to get ready for the muster drill. We never did get anything until our late dinner seating that night.
4. The entertainment is exceptional. I even missed the Super Bowl to go to one of the shows, and that says a lot. This is a key difference where Disney separates. We never felt crowded at the shows and showed up right at show time with seats each night in the first several rows. My kids always had a great view.
5. The room setup is excellent. There was plenty of room for the 4 of us.
6. There is a lot of organized events on the cruise, but really not much different than we have seen on other cruises (lots of Bingo and trivia). We did enjoy all of the family dance parties and other family games. One of the things that I thought I would enjoy the most with my 5 year old (really a movie buff) is going to the theater and watching movies, but we stayed so busy we did not even make it in once.
7. Castaway Cay is beyond amazing. As we plan our next trip this is a mandatory stop for us which unfortunately rules out the Galveston port which is closest to us.
8. I did not feel nickled and dimed throughout the trip. We really could have had a perfect time and not spent one dollar more than our tips on the room account. No pushy drink servers. Free soda and other drinks throughout the day. Free room service that had a pretty good menu. A free bingo card when the kids wanted to play. These little extras made us feel valued.
9. Getting on and off the ship on port days was a breeze even at Grand Cayman where there is a pretty long tender. Our tender process a few years ago there with Carnival was very laborious, but little differences by Disney go a long way (ice water, warm towels to clean your face, etc.) to make you feel more refreshed after a long day as you wait for the tender.
We are planning our next trip in 2014 as we do not want to go too often to spoil the "Magic". I cannot put my finger on why we felt this trip was better than our other cruises, but it must just be all of the little things that add up. Keep your expectations in check so that you know what you are getting. If you don't mind spending extra money to get a slightly better cruising experience then Disney is for you. We fall in that category and are excited to go again. If you are always looking for the best deal then you will probably be happier on another line as the differences are pretty subtle (except for the entertainment which is fantastic). I think we are going to stay on the smaller older ships as the lack of crowds was one of the things that was most appealing to me. Less
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You'd like to use the Org Mode for Emacs to manage your tasks. In this
blog post, I'll cover the absolute minimum you need to get started.
We'll assume that you already have GNU Emacs 22 and that you're reasonably
familiar with using Emacs, including installing external modules and
adding them to your load path.
There are a million ways to plan, but we're going to focus on two. The
first approach is Getting Things Done (GTD), described by David Allen
in the book of the same title. GTD focuses on next actions (the very
next thing you can do) and uses context lists to keep things
manageable. Popular ways to do GTD are with index cards, recycled
business cards, or software programs. If most of your tasks are in
your head or scattered on scraps of paper, GTD will probably give you
the most organizational bang for the least effort.
The second approach is day planning. You plan your week based on your
projects and priorities, write your tasks onto the pages for each day,
and copy unfinished tasks over to the next day. If you've used one of
those Filofax, Franklin-Covey or Dayrunner personal organizers, you're
probably used to this way of planning.
As you learn more about Emacs and task management, you'll probably
develop your own way of doing things. These two are a good place to
start, though. (Don't recognize how you plan your day, but
interested in using Emacs anyway? Please get in touch with me! I may
know of something that fits, and I'd certainly love to hear about the
way you work.)
If you use GTD, read on. Otherwise, read the Setup and then wait for
the next blog post! =)
Org is part of Emacs 22. To make it even easier to collect tasks and
notes, install a separate package called Remember.
First, download and unpack Remember. As of this writing, Remember is
at version 1.9. You can get the TAR.GZ from
http://download.gna.org/remember-el/remember-1.9.tar.gz605 or the ZIP
archive from http://download.gna.org/remember-el/remember-1.9.zip606 . If
these instructions are out of date, check
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/RememberMode607 to find out where to get Remember.
Then add this basic configuration for Org and Remember to your ~/.emacs,
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/remember-1.9") ;; (1) (require 'remember-autoloads) (setq org-remember-templates '(("Tasks" ?t "* TODO %?\n %i\n %a" "~/organizer.org") ;; (2) ("Appointments" ?a "* Appointment: %?\n%^T\n%i\n %a" "~/organizer.org"))) (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation)) (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler)) (eval-after-load 'remember '(add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template)) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c r") 'remember) ;; (3) (require 'org) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode)) ;; (4) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c a") 'org-agenda) ;; (5) (setq org-todo-keywords '("TODO" "STARTED" "WAITING" "DONE")) ;; (6) (setq org-agenda-include-diary t) ;; (7) (setq org-agenda-include-all-todo t) ;; (8)
After you evaluate that code by calling M-x eval-buffer or restarting Emacs, you're ready to create an Org file.
Read on to find out how to use your new Org file for GTD, or skip ahead to the section on Day Planning to find out how to plan by day!
So you've read David Allen's book about Getting Things Done (or any of
the countless summaries of it on the Net), and you'd like to get
started with Emacs and Org mode. I'll show you the bare minimum you
need to support the five phases in the GTD task workflow:
|Capture everything you need to do.
|Collect all your bits of paper or put everything into your inbox
|Actionable? Yes: do, delegate, or defer; no: file, throw, or incubate
|Put tasks on your list, track delegated tasks
|Next actions, projects, waiting for, someday/maybe
|Tag tasks, view tasks by tag
|Daily, weekly, etc.
|Agenda view
|Actually do the work!
|No, Emacs won't do the work for you… (But it can brew coffee!)
The first thing you need to do is get all the tasks out of your head,
off scraps of paper, out of your e-mail, and so on. If this is the
first time you're putting tasks into Org, you have a lot of tasks to
collect. The best way to collect lots of tasks is to open your Org
agenda file (~/organizer.org) and put this heading at the end of the
* Inbox
Now go to the end of the file, and type in ** TODO and the first task
you can think of, like this:
** TODO Buy milk
Press C-M-RET and keep typing other tasks. Keep going until you've
gone through all the things in your head and all the scraps of paper
lying around. Do not get distracted. Your goal is to write all the
tasks down. If you are as easily distracted as I am, do not even open
up a browser window or look at your e-mail. It can be a real struggle
sometimes to focus long enough to get everything down, especially when
you're writing down all these tasks that you can work on. DO NOT DO A
TASK UNLESS IT TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES TO DO. In fact, if you are
just starting out with GTD, you might find it better to resist all
temptations to do tasks during this step. Get it all out.
Now that you've gotten your tasks out of your head and into your
organizer.org file, breathe. There's less stress in your brain now,
because you don't have to worry about forgetting things (as long as
you remember to check your Org file, that is!).
DO NOT FILL YOUR BRAIN BACK UP WITH OTHER THINGS TO DO. The brain is a
wonderful thing, but it's not good at remembering what you need to do.
Whenever a task comes your way—through e-mail, in conversation, in
the shower—put it in your ~/organizer.org. Well, you probably don't
want to drip all over the computer, so sometimes you'll need to hang
on to an idea—but get it out of your head and into your organizer as
quickly as possible.
To collect tasks within Emacs as they come up, use Remember. With the
basic configuration you set up in the previous section, you can use
C-c r t (or M-x remember and "t" for the Tasks template) to pop up a
buffer where you can type in the task description and some notes.
## Filing location: Select interactively, default, or last used: ## C-u C-c C-c to select file and header location interactively. ## C-c C-c "~/notebook/personal/organizer.org" -> "* Tasks" ## C-u C-u C-c C-c "???" -> "* ???" ## To switch templates, use `M-x org-remember'. * TODO
And if you're lucky, there will even be a hyperlink to the file or
e-mail you were looking at when you called C-c r t (remember, tasks).
If you brain-dump your tasks and use C-c r t to collect tasks as they
come up, you can free up your brain for other things, such as
contemplating the meaning of life.
Now that you've collected all those tasks into your inbox, you can
process them. Open your Org agenda file and go to your inbox.
For every item there, decide if it's something that you need to act
on. Is it really just a note? If so, take out the TODO keyword and
organize it like you would store other notes. If it's a true-blue
task, decide if it's something you can do within the next two minutes,
delegate to someone else, or leave on your task list. Go through your
list systematically, delegating and eliminating whenever possible.
If you delegate the task, change it to WAITING by moving your cursor
to the headline with the TODO keyword and typing S-r (org-shiftright)
until it changes to WAITING. To keep track of who you delegated it to,
just edit the task description to reflect it. Your organizer file will
look like this:
** WAITING Buy milk - WJY
You have a list of tasks that _you_ need to act on. If you've
braindumped everything that people have asked you to do and that
you've thought of doing, this is probably a very long list.
Intimidatingly long. The next step in restoring sanity to your life is
to organize your list into next actions, projects, things you're
waiting for, and someday/maybe tasks.
Review that task list. For each task, decide if it's something you can
do immediately. Is it something you can do in one sitting, and do you
have everything you need in order to do it? If so, great! It's a next
action. Leave it on your task list.
If you can't immediately work on a task, it may be a project in
disguise, and it needs to be broken down into smaller, concrete next
actions. For example, the task:
** TODO Write a book about Emacs
would probably result in me getting complete writer's block. If you're
faced with a big task like this, move it out of your inbox and make it
a project. Then you can think of the very next action you need to do.
Your Org file could look something like this:
* Projects ** Emacs book *** TODO Write about basic Org and GTD * Inbox ** TODO ... lots of other things go here ... ** TODO ... lots of other things go here ... ** TODO ... lots of other things go here ...
A task might also be stuck because you need to wait for someone else.
For example, I'm currently working on renewing my visa, but I need to
wait for the embassy. Mark those stuck tasks as WAITING with S-right
Someday/maybe tasks are nice to think about once in a while, but you
don't want to clutter your day-to-day tasks with them. A basic way to
deal with this is to move those tasks into a separate Organizer file
such as ~/someday.org . Another is to use tags, which we'll cover in
the section on intermediate Org. For now, just move them to another
You've gone from a whole bunch of tasks in your brain and on pieces of
paper to one text file containing everything you need to do, with an
easy way to get to just the things you can do right now. To view all
your tasks, type C-c a t (org-agenda, tasks). You'll get something
that looks like this:
Global list of TODO items of type: ALL Available with `N r': (0)ALL (1)TODO (2)STARTED (3)WAITING (4)DONE TODO Write about basic Org and GTD TODO Blog TODO Answer my mail TODO Alter slacks ...
Type "1 r" to show only the active tasks, and review what you're
waiting for with "3 r". Review this WAITING list every so often
to make sure that nothing falls through the cracks.
Type "f" to start follow mode, which displays the relevant lines from
your Org agenda file as you move around. This is helpful for quickly
reviewing your task list.
All of the above should take you less than fifteen minutes of planning
each day. The rest of the time, you can focus on doing the work,
undistracted by shiny new tasks that pop up because you can get them
out of your way with C-c r t.
To work, review your task list with either C-c a t (org-agenda, tasks)
or C-a a (org-agenda, agenda). From the agenda view, type "t"
(org-agenda-todo) to change the task status. I find it helpful to mark
a task as STARTED because it helps me remember what I was working on
in case I get distracted by something urgent, but you can also use C-u
t to jump to a status without cycling through the ones in between
(say, marking a task as DONE). You can also press ENTER to jump to the
task headline and edit it directly.
Going back to reviews: As you mark tasks done, you'll also want to do
daily and weekly reviews. You can see those with C-c a a (org-agenda,
org-agenda-list), which opens an Org agenda view. To see completed
tasks in the Org agenda view, type l (org-agenda-log-mode). To switch
to the day view, type d (org-agenda-day-view). To switch to the week
view, type w (org-agenda-week-view). The basic configuration I've
suggested here will automatically include unfinished tasks at the
beginning of the agenda. Scroll up to review your tasks, and press
ENTER on a line to jump to it.
There's a lot more you can do with Org to make it support GTD, but
here's a basic configuration that can get you started on collecting,
processing, organizing, managing, and actually doing your tasks. Stay
tuned for the intermediate Org article for more tips on setting up
repeated tasks, clocking time, working with projects, and tagging
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If you're the kind of person who likes scribbling free-form tasks and
notes in your day planner, then Planner might be a good fit for you.
In this blog post, I'll show you how to use Planner to organize the
things you need to do by the day you need to do them, check the things
you need to do, mark tasks complete, and review what you've finished.
I assume that you've already got GNU Emacs 22 installed and that
you're comfortable with using Emacs as a text editor, although it
might not yet be your way of life. (Just you wait! Planner was the
thing that pushed me over the edge. ;) )
Here's the bare minimum you need in order to use Planner to manage
your tasks day by day. You'll need Planner, which is a separate
package that you can get from http://www.gna.org/projects/planner-el
. As of this writing, Planner is at version 3.41. You'll also need
Muse, the markup engine that Planner is based on. You can get Muse
from https://gna.org/projects/muse-el . As of this writing, Muse is at
version 3.11.
Download the latest versions of Planner and Muse, and unpack them. If
you don't know where to unpack them, I suggest creating an ~/elisp
directory and extracting the archives to that directory. You should
end up with two new directories: ~/elisp/planner-3.41 and
Here's how to configure Planner:
1. Create a directory such as ~/Plans . This is where your Planner pages will be.
2. Add the following to your .emacs:
;; Load paths - change as necessary (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/planner-3.41") (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/muse-3.11/lisp") ;; (1) ;; Basic configuration (require 'muse-project) (require 'planner-autoloads) (setq planner-project "WikiPlanner") ;; Adjust this if you already have other Muse projects (setq muse-project-alist '(("WikiPlanner" ("~/Plans" ;; (2) :default "TaskPool" ;; (3) :major-mode planner-mode :visit-link planner-visit-link))) ;; Some handy keyboard shortcuts (global-set-key (kbd "C-c d") 'planner-goto) ;; (4) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") 'planner-create-task-from-buffer) (global-set-key (kbd "<f9> d") 'planner-goto) ;; (5) (global-set-key (kbd "<f9> t") 'planner-create-task-from-buffer) (global-set-key (kbd "<f9> <f9>") 'planner-goto-today) ;; (6) (global-set-key (kbd "<f9> <f8>") 'planner-goto-yesterday) ;; (7) (global-set-key (kbd "<f9> <f10>") 'planner-goto-tomorrow) (plan) ;; (8)
Evaluate the code with M-x eval-buffer, or restart Emacs. Then you're
ready to plan!
The first thing you need to learn is how to get to day pages
quickly. Planner needs to be at least as fast as opening a paper-based
day planner and finding the right page. Here are the two keybindings
from the previous section on setting up Planner:
|F9 d(ate) or C-c d
|Jumps to any day's page
|Shows today's page
F9 d (planner-goto) is smart. You can click on a date in the calendar
that pops up, or navigate to a date and press RET. Typing in the date
is much faster. The date format is yyyy.mm.dd, and it understands
partial dates (mm.dd, or just dd).
For example, if the date today is December 28, 2007, here's what
|Which day in the current month
|Which day and month in the current year
|The full date
planner-goto also understands relative dates, and this is where things
get more interesting. If you are looking at a day page, dates are
calculated based on the day you're currently looking at, or today if
you're not looking at a day page. This allows you to use "+2fri" to
jump to successive paydays or use -1 to see the day before the one
you're reading. Here are some examples that will show you what you can do:
(If you ever find yourself using a date shortcut like the one in (6),
please e-mail me, as I put that code in just for fun. =) )
Practice jumping around to different dates using F9 d or C-c d, the
two shortcuts we set up earlier. If one of those shortcuts feels more
natural to you, go ahead and use it. (Or bind it to something else, if
you want.) While you're opening different day pages, write a few
reminders to yourself.
The basic configuration I suggested also has some handy shortcuts for
going to the previous and next days. Press F9 F8
(planner-goto-yesterday) to go to the day before the one that's
currently displayed, and F9 F10 (planner-goto-tomorrow) to go to the
day after the one that's displayed. You'll find this handy when doing
your weekly planning. The standard shortcuts are C-c C-j C-y and C-c
C-j C-t. You may find those easier to type, but they were like a game
of Twister on my tiny keyboard. (This is also the reason why I've
remapped most of my keybindings. I simply can't do the
Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift thing.)
So now you know how to open different day pages. You can stop here and
already have a decent, minimalist day planner, using it like a
collection of text files that just happen to have useful navigational
commands. However, with a little more structure and some handy
shortcuts, you can be even more effective at managing your tasks.
Two of the keyboard shortcuts in the sample configuration are C-c t
and F9 t, both bound to planner-create-task-from-buffer. This is an
incredibly useful function, and it gets even better as you set up more
parts of Planner. The key idea behind planner-create-task-from-buffer
is that you should be able to quickly jot down a task and GET BACK TO
WORK RIGHT AWAY. No need to fiddle around with other files or dig your
planner out of your backpack. No switching to another application (at
least, if you do most of your work within Emacs). And if you set it
up, you even get hyperlinks back to whatever you were looking at,
saving you time in searching for the file you wanted to work on or the
e-mail you wanted to answer.
Try it for yourself. Use C-c t, F9 t, or M-x
planner-create-task-from-buffer to create a task. Type in the task
description. For now, accept the default date and plan page. The task
will be created on today's page. The task will also be copied to the
TaskPool page. To view today's page, type F9 F9. You can use TAB
(muse-next-reference) to move the cursor to the next hyperlink, and
RET to visit the link.
planner-create-task-from-buffer understands all the date shortcuts
that planner-goto does, so you can easily schedule a task for this
Saturday (+sat) or three days from now (+3). If you create a task
that's scheduled for some other day, you can either open the day page
with F9 d (planner-goto), or review it on the TaskPool.
Okay. You've got day pages. You've got tasks. You probably want to
find out how to mark tasks as done before your growing TODO list turns
into a monster and eats you.
When you finish a task, go to the day page or the plan page it's on
and use C-c C-x (planner-task-done) to mark it as finished. Think of
it as marking completed tasks with a big X. In addition to the
satisfaction of seeing completed tasks grayed and crossed out, you'll
also see the completed tasks drop to the bottom of your task list when
you save the file. This makes it easy to see what else you need to
do. Just pick the next item off your list and keep working.
Not quite done? You can mark it as pending with C-c C-p
(planner-task-pending). You can think of it as Pending or Postponed or
Realized that you didn't need to do it after all? Either delete the
task with M-x planner-delete-task, or mark it as cancelled with C-c
M-C-x (planner-task-cancelled). Think of C-c M-C-x as similar to C-c
C-x (planner-task-done), but even better—you've gotten away without
doing something. C-c M-C-x doesn't work on all terminals, so if your
computer gets confused and marks the task as done, call M-x
planner-task-cancelled instead.
NOTE: If your task is on both a day page and a plan page, make sure
you use these Planner commands and M-x planner-edit-task-description
in order to change the task status or description, and M-x
planner-delete-task to delete the task. These commands update the
linked page as well. If not, your tasks could get out of sync.
Even with your newfound powers of Planner task management, you'll
probably still be left with unfinished business at the end of the day.
Unfortunately, Planner does not have a M-x planner-dilate-time command,
so you'll just have to reschedule the tasks for another day.
If you wrote your tasks into your calendar using a paper-based
planner, you'd have to copy unfinished tasks to the next day one by
one. This is a powerful incentive to trim your task list and keep it
short. Planner can automatically copy unfinished tasks from the
previous days onto today's page, saving you a lot of scribbling. Do
not let this tempt you into procrastination.
If you go back to the basic configuration, you'll notice that it ends
with one command:
This reviews the past few days of pages for unfinished tasks, carrying
them over to today's page. By default, the past 3 days are checked,
which should be enough to get you through a blissful no-computer
weekend. If you're in the habit of going for long spans of time
without opening Emacs (like 4 days! *gasp*), you may want to change
the line in your ~/.emacs to something like
(plan 5) ;; Check the last 5 days
or even
(plan t) ;; Check all days. Can be slow!
You can also call this interactively with something like C-u 5 M-x
plan, which checks the last 5 days.
plan carries unfinished tasks from previous days to today. What if you
want to trim today's task list to a manageable size by proactively and
intentionally procrastinating things that you don't need to do today?
That's where planner-copy-or-move-task comes in.
To reschedule a task, move your cursor to the task on the day or plan
page. Type C-c C-c (planner-copy-or-move-task) and specify the
date. Again, planner-copy-or-move-task understands all the Planner
date shortcuts. If you reschedule a task from a day page, remember
that relative dates will be calculated based on the day page. For
example, if you're on 2008.08.12 and you want to reschedule a task, +1
means 2008.08.13. If you reschedule a task from a plan page, dates are
relative to today.
If you want to reschedule many tasks, you might find it more
convenient to use M-x planner-copy-or-move-region. Move to the
beginning of the first task you want to move, press C-SPC to mark the
beginning of the region, move to the end of the last task you want to
move, and call M-x planner-copy-or-move-region.
Ruthlessly reschedule until your task list for today looks
manageable. A large task list can be overwhelming. It feels better to
complete everything on your task list and then add some more, than to
end each day with many unfinished tasks.
You've got your day pages. You've added and scheduled tasks. You've
checked them off. At the end of the week, you're wondering where all
the time went. Just hit F9 F9 (planner-goto-today) to jump to today's
page, and then use F9 F8 (planner-goto-yesterday) and F9 F10
(planner-goto-tomorrow) to navigate around. (See, those keybindings
were there for a reason!)
But wait, there's more! I'll cover projects, timeclocking, and other
Planner goodies in an intermediate article on using Planner, so stay
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It takes me about 3 1/2 hours to write 2000 words. That works out to roughly 10 words a minute. I type a lot faster than that on a regular basis. The bottleneck isn't typing, it's my brain. Part of it is getting a handle on what I want to say and how I want to say it. I work with an outline. It's really helpful, but I find it difficult to work in the breadth-first matter suggested by other writers. I have a hard time going from the outline to a more detailed outline and to an even more detailed outline, and so on. I find it easier to think of things in terms of a conversation. I find it easier to write a blog post than to successively refine outlines. This explains the recent spate of 2000-word blog posts on my blog. I don't normally write this much, but it's the best way for me to get the information out of my head and into a form that I can read.
The Dragon NaturallySpeaking box arrived today, and I've installed it in my computer. I'm excited about trying it out, although it's quite interesting getting used to dictation. I'm finding out that I can't really talk off the cuff yet. I think it will be good training for me, as dictation encourages you to think things through before you start talking. Theoretically, as I read more to the computer, or dictate more to the computer, that is, it'll get more used to how I say things. There's still a long way to go before I can use it to transcribe recordings, though.
So my life for the past few days and the next few days — it's just full of words. From working on a wiki in the morning to working on my book in the evening, I'm writing a heck of a lot and I really really love it. I enjoy thinking about what I've learned, thinking about the questions that I want to ask, trying to organize all that information in a way that makes sense to other people who might not be familiar with the topic. And by golly, I think I'm getting the hang of it. 2000 words is roughly the size of, say, a LinuxJournal article. And yet this is the second day straight that I've managed to turn out one of those. Granted, the posts are on material that I know and have written about before. This is where all the blog posts helped because even if I didn't copy and paste what I'd written before, I'd had some practice in thinking things through. And I'll get better and better as I keep talking, keep writing, keep figuring things out.
Speaking of getting the hang of writing, too, I spent some time earlier putting together a Perl script that downloaded all the posts from my company blog and formatted them into a something I could turn into a miniature book. I wanted to review all the blog posts in preparation for an upcoming interview. It was surprisingly easy to do. I loved being able to look at all my entries and see what I'd been thinking over the past year. I was surprised to find out that I had written almost 50,000 words through the year. 140 pages. 50,000 words is about the number of words that people strive for in the NaNoWriMo contest. NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month, when people try to write that novel that they've always been planning to write but never got to around to. 50,000 words. Of course, they try to do all of that in one month, which is a bit more of a timeframe than I'd want to commit to. Still, I've written that in the last year, just the casual stuff, just the stories, just me saying, okay this is what I'm working on, this is what I'm doing today, this is what I'm wondering about…
If I can do 2000 words in 3.5 hours, which is roughly all the writing time I have in one day, and then multiply that by 30 days… If I manage to write consistently for 30 days, then I'll be like Stephen King, turning out a book in a month. Although maybe I won't quit ebe there yet… I need to get this book out. One thing at a time…


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The first Baby Wee Wee doll commercial from a few weeks ago was so shocking I had to spend a while researching it to make sure it was real. But this other Baby Wee Wee doll, brought to my attention by a commenter on BWE, is absolutely unbelievable. It…the thing…it…moves. Batteries not included!:
It's rare that an inappropriate child's toy comes along that is too wrong even for an ironic gag birthday gift, but I think this is the one. The ultimate and final wrongest child's toy of all time. Is that really okay in England?
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