They say that 7 years has something to do with starting to get bored in a marriage. I’m glad to confess that I have no such sentiments. I find with each year that things get sweeter, my relationship with my wife gets better, and I get happier in marriage.
It’s not perfect. It’s not easy. But it is very good. I’m glad.
Beautiful
I’m the kind of person who gets bothered by fingerprints and smudges on computer screens and televisions and the like. It’s just one of those things.
But I find myself less bothered by them on windows. I think it’s because when the hand print is on a window, I know it’s because one of my children was excited about something happening outside. They observed something beautiful or fun or exciting, and they wanted to see it better, to get closer.
I love that. So, kids, go ahead and smudge the windows. We’ll clean them later.
Things I Like
– Ruffles Cheddar Sour Cream potato chips
– The West Wing (how have I not watched this before?)
– Snow Peas
– Walmart’s version of Moose Tracks Ice Cream. They call it Decadent Fudge Tracks or something dumb like that, but it doesn’t matter, it’s delicious
– Audio books. I’m starting to come around
– RSS feeds. I know Google tried to declare them dead. Feedly, proves that they’re not.
A cool little tool
I’ve read this article about Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret several times. It makes a lot of sense to me. And I’ve wanted to do it without buying a calendar.
Along came Don’t Break the Chain. It’s a cool little web app that lets you define your chains, which days they ought to be active on, and then lets you click them once you’ve completed the task. And it even installs as a cool little extension for Chrome so that you can click it right from the browser toolbar.
Check it out. Start a chain… and then, don’t break it.
Free to a good corporate home
This idea is free to any corporation that wishes to use it. It’s genius. No really, stick with me for a minute.
Today, I went to Sam’s Club. As I walked in, every TV in the place was playing a Disney cover of “Call Me Maybe.” Yep, the dreaded ear-worm. And it occurred to me, there’s a great way for companies to help me get over my annoyance at being bombarded with an ear worm.
Imagine though, if you could get a discount for realizing you were unfairly bombarded with an annoying pop hit?
So here’s how it’d work: you’d have to sign up for the program in advance. They’d have a rolling list of the ear-worm hits they’ll honor the discount. Then, you just have to present your loyalty card at the check-out and name the ear worm they played.
The way I see it, the store then has incentive to not play an annoying pop-hit. And you have an incentive to at least bear with it. And I would’ve gotten a discount at Sam’s Club today, which is what this is really all about.