Category Archives: Humor
I should be writing. Instead, scaring kids on Halloween.
Am psyched to see the looks on the trick-or-treaters’ faces when I offer these babies up. [Though there are concerns they will eagerly take one or two…with full intentions to pepper my house with them.]
Retirement eBook–Transforming my pages to ecards
By next week, I will have published my Incomplete Book of Retirement Wisdom [Impressive title, eh?].
But I thought I would add a short tutorial ahead of time that shows another way to repurpose the pages.
Overwhelmed at the thought of writing?
Fast Company’s Art Markman has four suggestions:
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Break it down
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Make an outline
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Just get something down
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Write for five more minutes
If the list doesn’t tell you enough [and it doesn’t], here is the fleshed out version.
And I would add another suggestion.
Bake…[no, it doesn’t necessarily help you generate a bestseller, but it’s great for an afternoon coffee and who knows, the caramel experiment might just pay off in a fun blog post.]
- I added an amaretto caramel to the banana bread on the left. I added an Irish cream caramel to the banana bread on the right.
Whiteout Horoscope
Just playing around with words today…
But how do you find a ruler small enough to…
slap a bee’s wrist?
Bees are better at math when they’re punished for the wrong answer, a new study finds
Guys weekend!! My latest eCard
Passing this along from my other blog, retirerenew.com…
After completing a five-day ‘showing up’ challenge, I’m focusing these next four days just on my Incomplete Book of Retirement Wisdom**.
More on the challenge later…
**The book doubles as a collection of eCards.
Suggestions:
— Save/download the image above and send it to a retired/soon-to-retire friend.
— Better yet…
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call it up in an image editing program [even a presentation program like PowerPoint will work]
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slap an even better caption on top of mine or add a personal comment
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export it as a JPG or PNG, and email/text message it to that friend.
Writers: Looking to suck some valuable time from your already busy day? Launch an all-out investigation into whether or not you should add an apostrophe between the ‘y’ and the ‘s’ in ‘guys weekend’. I skipped that annoying grammatical gnat–I figured ‘guys’ answers the question ‘what kind of weekend?’, which makes it an adjective, not a possessive. I’ve also been sticking to the ‘better done than perfect’ guideline. Now I can sleep peacefully…until the dog digs his shoulder into my solar plexus. [A writer’s day isn’t complete until he shoehorns ‘solar plexus’ somewhere into his digital blather.]
Rants and Riffs Installment #12: Greeting cards, too-early calendars, and cable companies
Greeting card makers…since when did your product need that glued-down third ‘page’? The minute I pull a card from the case and feel that extra heft, I know that baby’s going to cost an extra buck.
Moving on…
A curious question from a snail mail donation plea…”How are you enjoying our 2020 calendar?” It’s September of 2019! Why would I have a calendar out three months ahead of time? And really, enjoying a calendar?
And finally…
Cable companies forcing you into ‘bundles’. All I want is fast Internet access! No, I do not want Keeping Up with the Kardashians, meaningless statistics spewed by sports networks, or some poor mosquito-bitten shlub relying on a palm frond [if we’re lucky] for warmth.
I should be writing. Instead, a new app.
Above is a screenshot from the thisissand app, billed as an app that merges art, creativity, and relaxation. Hey, if the creators can justify my procrastination for me, I’m all for it.
Plus, the price was right.
If you’re in the mood to kill 40+ seconds, here is a short demo.
I should be writing. Instead, poring over the newspaper…
Word Inventions 