Today – ok just NOW – I learned how to Blog from my BlackBerry so now I can update my lessons from the bus and I have no excuse for falling behind or for not catching up.
Stay tuned for a flurry of back-dated lessons!
Month: May 2010
Never Fall Behind
I have learned that it is overwhelming to be this far behind in my Lessons Learned blog. I have no idea how I am going to catch up Send me email with YOUR lessons learned so I can learn from them and dig out of this hole! Please!
Get Your Sox Tix Here
I have learned that on a non-Yankees week night with iffy weather, there are many many people selling Red Sox tickets, right outside of Fenway Park. If the Celtics or Bruins are playing the same night, this dramatically increases the number of face-value ticket sellers.
“Nothing Endures But Change”
says Heraclitus
Heraclitus is the first Western philosopher to go beyond physical theory in search of metaphysical foundations and moral applications.
Check It Out
I learned how to use New Hampshire’s online library system to download audio books and eBooks for FREE. I learned that audio books expire on your computer but not on your mp3 player, once downloaded. If they do expire, you may have to wait if the book is “checked out”, but you get an email when it’s back and then you have a very short time to grab it off of the virtual shelf.
eBooks look like they expire on the player itself. I’ll let you know!
Legibly!
And while I’m at it, I have learned that if I don’t write these lessons down in a way that I can read them later, they are still lost to me!
Anyone know what “sevawt brdush ptem” means?
Write it!
I hope I have learned, or I am trying to learn, or I want to learn… to write stuff down! I have learned and forgotten lessons over and over. I am going to try to keep paper around so that I can just jot them down as then happen.
A Picture is Worth…
nothing to some people. First of all, not everyone is into pictures, diagrams, two-dimensional depictions. I have learned that you can spot these people because they don’t try to illustrate things with these tools. Then there’s the lesson that some people don’t take to MY pictures. I’m into the second round of trying to describe abstract multi-faceted options with basic pictures, and I may be on my second round of falling on may face with it.
Words, anyone?
Tag, You’re So Not It
I have learned that if you want to make a good first impression with a new group of business customers, it;’s not a great idea to wear your cardigan inside out with the tag sticking out at the back of your neck.
Inside Outside Inside
I have learned that on a windy rainy day in the city, it’s important to hold your umbrella INTO the wind. And if you forget and it the wind whips it inside out, you can turn into the wind to flip it back. BUT you must not do this while crossing streets with crosswalks without walk lights because drivers get really mad when you step out with umbrella issues and don’t look where you are going.
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