Today I have been:
- Technical Support
- Webinar Support
- Emotional Support

What I have not done is take any time for myself. It's vitally important as we give to others, we take some time for ourselves.

Hang in there.

So… Webex chats stopped working. Only private chats work. No groups like All Attendees or All Panelists. Not even “Panelist” or “Host. You must select the specific person to chat to. Or they simply fail to display, or send.

I woke up at 8. 

Started work about 9. 

Looked up at noon, hungry.

My wife came in at 5.

To tell me it was 5.

New Quarantine Skill.

Determining which Home Depot is least busy and thus has the shortest line for entry when you need to replace toilet parts.

Anyone have any experience running large webinars? 5,000 - 10,000 participants. We do 1,000 - 3,000 routinely

I’m looking for best practices, pitfalls when running things that big. Anything I should be planning for or aware of when the numbers get that big?

RT’s appreciated. DMs open.

Has anyone shared a cover letter that landed them a job?

I don’t necessarily mean it was the deciding factor, but when you applied, you eventually got the job.

I’m curious to see what a successful cover letter looks like. So many people give advice of writing a good cover letter, but I’ve not often seen what a good cover letter looks like.

Anyone have an experience or example to share?

Happy Birthday to me!

I splurged and got myself a new job working in the private sector. No more contracting to the government. 🎉

Floor excavations brought to you by overflowing washing machine. I’m up to 6 layers between vapor barrier, tiles, floor, subfloor and carpet.

Wasn’t planning to start project Remove All Carpet. But wet floors are good motivation.

I saw this amazing back pack at the airport. It’s amazing!

MillennialLifeCrisis offers up a good reminder about Doin' it for the gram…

Sometimes those cliff-hanging dare devils are only daring with their photo cropping skills.

Today’s walk felt good. A nice mid 50° day after Christmas and before the new year.

I needed to get up and take a walk this morning. I set out along a nice road paralleling train tracks so there’s no cross streets.

I passed a stump holding up part of a fence in a small yard.

A friendly pole did its job holding up power and communication lines without complaint.

Near the Midway point of my walk I passed the Bowen & Company, Inc site. I love old signs on buildings. There’s fewer around as the areas get developed and turned into luxury services or condos.

Across the street is a Pure Barre studio.

I find it remarkable, at this point, how drawing for him still has nothing to do with the results. He does not care what you do with his drawings after he’s done making them. How he draws is intense and adorable at the same time: he will put down a few lines, and then stand back and shake while he admires them.

Source: A year of drawing - Austin Kleon

Some of my favorite things are drawings my nephew has made for me. I display “Pizza Whale” on my office wall and admire it often.

Joshua Specter linked to a post in his newsletters saying When You Follow Someone New On Social Media, Post About It

Let’s say you find someone interesting to follow on social media. Awesome. Now, spread the word about them.

And today, Spained-based tech and short story writer Riccardo Mori, pointed me to Mr. Mobile Michael Fisher

twitter.com/morrick/s…

So there’s two to start with.

Helping my dad sort his house for sale. I came across some treasures.

Washington has discovered that champions can live here. So why tolerate, let alone support, an atrociously run and constantly embarrassing franchise with a moral compass that is as twisted as a corkscrew?

Perfectly sums it up. Capitals won the Stanley Cup in 2018. The Mystics won the WNBA Championship this year. The Nationals won the World Series this year. The Redskins can’t score a touchdown.

Is your Roku acting up after buying Pokemon Sword or Shield?

Apparently the Pokemon game on your Nintendo Switch sends traffic similar to what Roku uses and the Roku streaming stick is too dumb to figure that out. So it freaks out and crashes.

Fix is to play Pokemon game with Switch offline (airplane mode) or move the Switch and Roku to different networks.

Do not try to update your router’s firmware at 11pm.

It could brick your router and after spending 2 hours trying to manually reinstall it using TFTP, you’ll still have no working router and be 2 hours more tired the next day.

[caption id=“attachment_581” align=“aligncenter” width=“976”] ‘Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.’[/caption]

I think about this quote a lot. This book confirmed a lot about what I think about work and working better. It also taught me some things I wish I had the power to implement.

I feel like I’ve written about this before - can’t remember whether it was here or not, but when trillion-dollar companies complain that things are “hard”, what they really mean is that they “do not want to do them” or that they are “not that important”, or perhaps more tellingly, that “there is no [perceived] profit in doing it”. Because, lest we forget, Google is a company that went from zero to having a gigantic fleet of sensor-laden cars driving around every single road in as many countries as they could, just so you could look at shops and the less said about having more data to sell ads against, the better.

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Dan is talking about using Maps to find the safest route home. That’s a problem Maps can’t do for me yet. For all of the smart tools available to us, most of them aren’t very smart at all.