President Hinckley has challenged members of the church to read the Book of Mormon completely by the end of the year. I’ve created this spreadsheet to track my progress.
Basically, I’ve listed each chapter in the Book of Mormon and how many verses are in it. To the left I’ve listed how many of those verses I have read. Below each chapter is a summary of how many chapters I have left to read, the date I want to read them all, how many days I have left to do so, How many chapters I have to read each day, and finally, how far behind (or ahead) of my goal I am to read two chapters per day.
If you want to use this spreadsheet for yourself, feel free to download it here.
Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19
Arg!! It’s finally here! I’rve been waiten all year fer dis date to come!
We saw Robert Redford on Saturday… We drove up to Sundance to take some family photos. In the middle of all the commotion (we have two young kids), Robert Redford walked by. My wife was the only one that noticed and didn’t say anything until he was out of ear shot. My sister-in-law exitedly snapped this photo as he was walking away… (he’s the one in the red had in case you couldn’t tell.)
I came across an interesting site this morning. I was just checking my logs for Shiblon.com and I noticed 3 people had found my site doing a search for “gordon b hinkley birthday.” I checked out the link and came across the first result, which was 43things.com. I thought it was interesting so I signed up and started creating my 43 things.
I often get new ideas for projects and websites. It then becomes a challenge to figure out how much work I would have to put in to this new idea to make it successful, and, if that work is even worth the effort. Sometimes, even if it is worth the effort, I simply don’t have time to actually do it.
I’ve found an effective way to help myself out though. I’ve made money on freelance portals and even hired people for freelance work. One thing I found that has become quite helpful in determining the effort and value of my new ideas is to post them on these freelance boards. Many times I will post projects that I have no intension of even hiring someone for. I just want to get an idea of how much it will cost me to hire someone vs. how much time it will take me to do it. My time may be more valuable than the cost of hiring someone.
I have NOT found negative reprocussions to doing this. At first I thought, “what if the freelance boards start to notice that I never hire anyone?” What do they care? It’s a win-win situation. You get bids to estimate project costs, and their freelance portal has more visitors and updated content for the search engines. The only ones that really have anything to lose are the freelancers that take the time to review your project and post a bid. To them, I apologize. But honestly, I doubt many of them have high hopes in the first place. Especially if you have over a hundred bidders fighting for your project. Odds are slim they would have gotten it in the first place, and still they are okay with taking the time for these type of odds.
So, for your next project or new idea. Go post it free at Nerdlance.com. Posting is free and there is no obligation to ever hire anyone! (But, you may find it worth it to hire someone in the end.)
My wife has found an interesting cure for insomnia. I doubt this will work for anyone else though. Whenever she is having trouble falling asleep for whatever reason, she asks me to tell her a story about my childhood. I have pretty good memory, so I never run out of new stories. I find them highly entertaining, but without fail, once I finish she is OUT!
Sort of looks like a painful delivery!
I work 8:00 - 5:00 in a cubicle. If you’re a programmer you may be like me. It is hard to get up sometimes when you’re in the middle of programming. In the past I would go all day without getting up to eat or drink. I was totally screwing up my metabolism according to Tom Venuto. I’ve since tried to be more conscious of eating 6 meals a day and drinking more water. Over the last 2 months I’ve lost about 15 lbs of fat. I’ve also been exercising, but I think my diet has gotten my metabolism back into shape.
The hardest part is packing my meals each morning. I often forget, or simply don’t make the time in the morning. On these days is where my Oatmeal comes in handy. I have a big box of spoons, a box of Splenda packets, and some unflavored packets of instant oatmeal (Wal-Mart brand). I put two packets or oatmeal in a foam cup and add a packet of two of splenda. My company has hot water & coffee supplies on hand. Sometimes I like to add a coffee creamer. If I’m feeling like a treat, I’ll throw in some hot chocolate mix. The taste kind of reminds me of the no-bake cookies I used to make as a kid.
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(I received this in an email - Word doc format. I was especially fond of the humor since I served a 2 year mission in South Africa.)
You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical supplies, and enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital.
It’s a stifling 100 degrees in the shade and you’re eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder.
On the way back to your plane, you discover that the only bit of shade, within 1 mile, has become very popular… You start calculating the distance to the plane door and wonder…
“Do I feel lucky today?”
