The Snow Catcher
Sometimes when you’re a dog, you just can’t stand the thought of letting the snowflakes reach the ground.
That was during today’s storm. Silly dog….
Archive for December, 2009
John Wooden Quote #2
John Wooden’s father had rules about how he felt people should conduct themselves in life. He called these rules “two sets of threes.” The first set was about honesty:
Never lie.
Never cheat.
Never steal.
The second set was about handling tough times:
Don’t whine.
Don’t complaint.
Don’t make excuses.
Pretty good rules, if you ask me.
If you don’t know what this post/series is about, see the John Wooden tag and specifically the first quote I posted.
Random Thought: Air Travel
If the TSA/FAA is going to create a bunch of silly, new in-flight rules (see story here and read comments here) as a knee-jerk reaction to the attempted attack on Christmas day, I’m going to change my travel plans for 2010.
After missing most of the SEO/SEM conferences in 2009, I was hoping to attend more next year. But flying was already a big enough pain in the arse, and now it seems things will only be worse moving forward. I’m glad that I’ve already committed to speak at one event here in the Tri-Cities, and two others that are within driving distance. And at the moment, the only U2 show I’m planning to attend is also a short drive away. (I have Oakland tickets, too, but not sure about using them. If the TSA/FAA rules are going to be silly, I’ll probably sell those.)
Terrorists suck. Kneejerk reactions do, too.
John Wooden Quote #1
“Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.”
For Christmas today, I received a copy of this book, simply called Wooden. It’s a collection of short stories and observations by a man whose wisdom I’ve cherished for more than 20 years. As I read along, I’ll be posting some of my favorite quotes from the book. You can see the full collection in the John Wooden tag for this blog.
Merry Christmas, Sparky
We got Sparky a new bed today because his old one was getting too flat and he’s been struggling to get comfortable on it for a little while now.
You may be wondering, Gee, Matt, does he like it?
Yes. Yes, he does. Aside from dinner-time, he hasn’t gotten off the thing in seven hours.
Random Thought: Dentists
If the dentist really cared about you taking good care of your teeth, s/he’d give you one of those expensive, electric toothbrushes when you leave … not a cheap, flimsy, plastic one with terrible bristles that you wouldn’t even use on your dog.
Maybe I’ll bring this up at my appointment in February.
Bad Seahawks News
I was pretty sad earlier this week when I read what Jim Mora said about the Seahawks neon green jerseys: They’ve been retired.
Gasp! Shock! Quelle horreur!
I know most of the free world hated those things, but I kinda liked them at first, and then started to love them the more I saw highlights of them, and even when I saw them in stores. I think Sean liked them, too.
Well, on the bright side, there’s this: Our Playstation 3 recently told us we needed to download an updated version of Madden 10 before we could play again, but it didn’t tell us what the update included. Lo and behold, when I went to play my next Seahawks game, look what one of the new uniform options was:
How awesome is that??!!! By the way, Mora said he’s retiring the green jerseys because “we didn’t win in them.” Well, coach … I’m undefeated in them. Take that.
Every year around this time, I wonder what the mailman is thinking. And the UPS delivery guy/gal. And the FedEx person, too. Because every year at this time, our house has to be one of the busiest stops on their routes. This picture, for example, is just a sample of what was delivered to our house today. Two more boxes came after I took this shot. 
