It’s called Activation Energy. This is the energy it costs to start a reaction. Looking at it from a wider perspective, it’s the energy you spend to get anything going. Unsurprisingly, this cost isn’t static. One day, an activity might take a small amount of energy to get going. Another day, it might take much …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: By the time this goes live, I’m looking at snow, switching to rain, then freezing. While I can appreciate all three for their own aesthetic beauty. I can’t say I’m a fan of all three in …
At the beginning of the year, I made a change to the daily “To-Do” list. I started dividing it into two sections which I called: “Important and Urgent” and “Important but not Urgent.” This change has had some benefits, which I’d hoped for. It keeps me on track better than simply brain dumping onto the …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: It’s very tempting to focus on looking ahead (to weekends, vacations, etc.) and just burn through the day to get one step closer to that one thing, not really paying attention as the days roll past. …
Sidebar: This is not a post about Kate Elliott’s wonderful Sun Chronicles series, though you should definitely put it in your eyes or ears – you won’t be disappointed. Yesterday was the first day in just over two weeks or so that I actually saw the Sun. Here in my neck of the woods, we’d …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: February kind of caught me by surprise this year. Like I could see it coming, but it always seemed to be at the far-end of the trail, never getting closer, until it was right on me. …
I’ve been interested in Happiness for a while now. Seems like a kind of silly thing to say I mean, after all, who wouldn’t be interested in Happiness? But this isn’t about something you acquire, it’s more in the vein of what Happiness is (and what it isn’t) and how it works. I started off …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Both Grease Monkeys and Crimson Whisper finished 2nd in the Critters Online Writer’s Workshop Reader’s Poll. Thank you so much for voting! Thing #2: Huge thanks to the ConFusion Staff and Volunteers and to the Sheraton …
The title of today’s post is a little bit of a misnomer, as it’s going live on Sunday which would, in fact, be the last day of ConFusion 2024 and I’m drafting this post on Friday afternoon, some few hour before any actual programming begins. I’m doing this for two reasons: The First, is because …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: This Weekend, from the 19th through the 21st, I’ll be at ConFusion! If you’re in the area, stop by. It’s a good time. Thing #2: Self promotion is difficult to prioritize – you’d think it wouldn’t …