Jenn C, who is fighting a nasty cough, heard two different people recommend the same solution for sleep in the same day, so she tried it and it worked for her!
She put Vicks Vapor Rub on her feet at bedtime, then her socks, and then slept better and got more rest than she had in weeks.
What do you think? Have you done this? Why would it work? As a reflexology-related effect, as Jenn suspects?
On this day, I learned multiple lessons about using a GPS. The first few are obvious – or at least they are now:
Be specific about the address! Winthrop Street is by Logan Airport, and is nowhere near Winthrop Square in Downtown Crossing. There are at least three different Summer Streets in Boston, in three different places.
Check out the GPS map view or the whole sequence of directions before you start out. Then you can pick the one to which you would actually care to go!
And this is the big one of the day: Even though it sounds like a good solution for navigating the one-ways, forget using a GPS in Very Old Boston! The Fanueil Hall area, complete with 200+ year old paved cow paths, twists and turns and small angles, seems to have named (but not labeled) roads that not distinct enough for my Garmin GPS. It freaked out! It went into an incoherent rant that went something like this as I crawled through traffic: “Turn right on Milk Stree.. recalculating turn left on [something] str… recalculating.. recalculating… turn left on .. recalculating…” Well you get the idea.
Not yet a month after I learned it (see January 11), I am learning the lesson AGAIN to keep the darn power cord with the device for which it was born and bred.
Today I learned how to put contact info on my new blackberry so that it shows even when my phone is (company required) password protected and Contacts are not accessible. For someone who loses things at a heart-breaking rate, this kind of thing is important to me!
Settings > Owner > [edit to add how someone could reach you if you lost your cell phone]
Thanks to Barbara, who found out that I could do this at all!
What useful thing have you learned?
Today I learned, again, to look and think before taking a seat on the bus.
My morning ride to Boston is a crunch today. In general, this is a comforatable coach, but because some seats are removable, the space between them is variable. In this row, there is barely enough room for me, and I’m not very tall (unless we are talking weight charts and then I stretch right out!).
So take an extra minute and scope out the situation before choosing a seat. That’s what I have learned today and it’s only 7:30 in the morning!
What have you learned today?
Today I learned how to use semicolons; I avoided them in the past!
Today I was reminded that not all conference call systems give you a warning “beep” or name announcment when someone dials in. So today I learned the EASY way not to say anything that I would not say to the larger group, as others join.
I like learning lessons the easy way. The other way hurts.
What have your learned today?
A lint roller works really well for tidying up your office if you spill a bit of a packet of instant oatmeal.
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!
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.
Jane's Lessons Learned 