Month: January 2010

Marry Well!

This is surely the most important Lesson that I have ever learned: Marry Well!  Know what you want and what you need.  No other choice could have a bigger impact on your life.

Me?  I wanted and needed (according to my Grandma Sara, who remembered such things) “Smart, funny and kind”  in, as I remember it, no particular order – all being equally important.  And look!  I got it all!

Score!

Glamour “Don’t”

Wide-legged drapey pants and slushy city sidewalks are not a match.  This left me with a choice: arrive at work slushed out, or tuck my pants into my otherwise-somewhat-subtle LLBean Snow Sneakers, from which they blossom out like I should be drinking vodka and dancing with my arms crossed.  Lesson learned: These pants go back in the closet for dry sunny days.

TV + Xbox + Netflix = Free Streamed Movies

From Gale Taylor: Today I learned how to watch Netflix movies on my TV for FREE. Xbox needed however. Now I know why Netflix sent out the DVD so you could watch via a Playstation because you can already do it on XBOX.

 Here are the steps.

  •  Plug in an Ethernet wire to back of Xbox (left side)
  • Turn on the Xbox power
  • Select TV/Video till you get a picture
  • Using the Xbox controller, Go to video marketplace
    Use the grey button on the left to select (up, down, left, right), and use the color guide on the right (A=green)
  • Select Netflix
  • Choose your category and select movies for your queue
  • Select your queue and choose a movie to watch!

Wanted: Clue

I have learned that I really have no idea if I am hungry or not, unless I am starving.  This is another of those things I keep learning again and again.   The Game On Diet ( http://www.thegameondiet.com/ ) has provided an interesting structure for me (and the other dozens of players in my round), but on the “day off”, I’m left to my own clueless cues, lost in the land of “what can I eat now?”.

So what’s the answer?  Keep a structure in place, such as this one, forever? 

What did you learn today?

No Racoon at All

A Lesson Learned by Katherine Mollman Waters: Trading in your Clunker for a new car. 1.) Do not disclose the following…Your son hit a raccoon driving 70 miles an hour taking out a part of the bumper, but leaving part of the raccoon when he was 16. 2.) Do not mention the slipping transmission. The reason you are not driving the said car today is because you live on a very, very steep hill and the snow and ice has not been cleared yet. 3.) Do not mention the years it was used as a traveling junk food, i.e, dead fry dispenser.4.) Wave your latest insurance card at them so they know someone thinks it is still drive worthy.5.) Do your research on line so you have the exact car and dealership already in your sights. Offer cash, and make sure it is a one owner car, low mileage and bring someone with you that knows the new car inside the engine and out! I just traded my 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse Gt for a 2004 325I BMW in great condition, with low mileage! Yeah! Oh, and I am parking at the top of the hill till my driveway defrosts.

Gating Factor

Check the departure gate, and then GO there and confirm it, and leave plenty of time to do it. 

I had one gate listed on my boarding pass (no one should believe that one), then another on the screen – different concourse – and then a third that was the Truth.  So this all takes time.  Find it first, then hang out.

Years ago I also learned  (OK, twice) that you have to be at the actual gate, not the next number.  Because the distance between Gate 25 and Gate 26 can be a tram.

What travel lessons have you learned, by doing it right or the hard way?  Post a comment here.