I have very bad allergies. Pollen season is upon us and I'm miserable. I feel like I'm all jacked up on medication (because I am) and I generally just don't feel well. Ok, I'm done complaining.
Today was a great day. Celena went shopping at Khol's with Luke while Seth and I went out to Chic-fil-a for breakfast and do some browsing around together. It was a great time and when we got home we both had an allergy attack together, took some medicine, and played around with the fish tank. Oh well, I'm going to go lay down now. :)
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Night Out
What a great evening!! Celena procured some free tickets to the Cultural Arts Center to hear the U.S Air Force Clarinet Quartet. Very nice indeed! They played several classical pieces, and even did some from the Lord of The Rings symphony. "The Hobbits" was my favorite as it captured the fun loving nature of the Hobbits very well. We did get a baby-sitter and so afterwards Celena and I went over to Java Divine for some snacks. Well, I'm off to an early bedtime following an evening out. Gotta love it!
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Reading more books
Ok, I'm a bookworm. I like to read and study new and interesting things and decided to make a new category for some of my posts. I started reading "The World is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman a couple of weeks ago and it is my first real foray into a recent history/political book. Very interesting, but I'm not going to fly through it like I did "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Therefore I decided to read something easy and "Our Iceberg is Melting" was next on my reading list. What a great book! Nice little story about some emperor penguins facing the reality that their home is going away. If I were to categorize myself, I would have to say that I am most likely a Fred. There's quite alot of similarities between us. I really like the strategy on how to manage change and may have to put it to use one day so I'm glad I read it. I think I'll have to add "The One Minute Manager" to my reading list now.
After I finished "Our Iceberg is Melting" I began to read "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell. Wow! What an interesting book. It's all about how a small portion of our mind (termed the adaptive unconscious) makes decisions way before our conscious mind realizes it. In Mr. Gladwell's own terms: "...the task of making sense of ourselves and our behavior requires that we acknowledge there can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis."
This has been around awhile, and was once called "coup d'oeil" - which, translated from the French, means "power of the glance": the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield. Interestingly, this was used to describe Napoleon and Patton. An interesting essay on the subject can be found here.
Another interesting facet of all this is that Gladwell believes that we can learn to harness and apply this instinct in our everyday lives. Interesting thought, hope he's right!
Therefore I decided to read something easy and "Our Iceberg is Melting" was next on my reading list. What a great book! Nice little story about some emperor penguins facing the reality that their home is going away. If I were to categorize myself, I would have to say that I am most likely a Fred. There's quite alot of similarities between us. I really like the strategy on how to manage change and may have to put it to use one day so I'm glad I read it. I think I'll have to add "The One Minute Manager" to my reading list now.
After I finished "Our Iceberg is Melting" I began to read "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell. Wow! What an interesting book. It's all about how a small portion of our mind (termed the adaptive unconscious) makes decisions way before our conscious mind realizes it. In Mr. Gladwell's own terms: "...the task of making sense of ourselves and our behavior requires that we acknowledge there can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis."
This has been around awhile, and was once called "coup d'oeil" - which, translated from the French, means "power of the glance": the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield. Interestingly, this was used to describe Napoleon and Patton. An interesting essay on the subject can be found here.
Another interesting facet of all this is that Gladwell believes that we can learn to harness and apply this instinct in our everyday lives. Interesting thought, hope he's right!
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