OMG I've stuffed so much into my brain these past three months I can barely see straight.
I've learned about WinXP, Vista and Win 7 and the similarities and differences amongst them.
Same with Chrome, IE and Firefox, also different versions and service packs.
I bought my first laptop and MP3 player and learned how to use both of those.
I learned 40 new names and personalities at my new wonderful company and how to navigate the waters here in Natick.
I've learned Request Tracker, Cacti, Open Office writer and calc, learned about viewers and readers and how to save files into different formats.
I've learned who publishes Everquest, Everquest II, Combat Arms, Second Life and Reaction Grid. Plus a whole lot of others.
I've created more passwords for myself and others in the past three months than probably my entire life before February 2011.
I've learned about uploading and downloading and sharing files and data, and some more filename extensions than I knew before.
I've learned how to do a complete system recovery, but that one I unfortunately learned the hard way.
I've learned it's better to let the other person talk than to talk myself. I'm a good listener.
I need to do it more.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Amazon and the Shift Affiliate
https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/aff/Aero123
Ok so I've been an Amazon Affiliate for a while now but not promoting my blog at all because I'm not a sales person. I figured if I was talking about some book I loved, I could post a link to the book and then if anybody bought it maybe I'd get a kickback.
Well, becoming an Amazon affiliate was so painless, that when I was given the opportunity to affiliate with The Shift Network, I jumped at the chance. This is something I can sell. These are teleconferences and seminars I will enjoy sharing with anyone and everyone.
So stay tuned, whoever out there has stumbled onto my page, because I will be updating this as new links become available. For now feel free to click my link above and see what happens.
Love,
Lynda
Ok so I've been an Amazon Affiliate for a while now but not promoting my blog at all because I'm not a sales person. I figured if I was talking about some book I loved, I could post a link to the book and then if anybody bought it maybe I'd get a kickback.
Well, becoming an Amazon affiliate was so painless, that when I was given the opportunity to affiliate with The Shift Network, I jumped at the chance. This is something I can sell. These are teleconferences and seminars I will enjoy sharing with anyone and everyone.
So stay tuned, whoever out there has stumbled onto my page, because I will be updating this as new links become available. For now feel free to click my link above and see what happens.
Love,
Lynda
Monday, May 2, 2011
My first time at a startup
I've worked for semi-established or fully-established companies my whole life, places like banks and Bose. Now, at the age of 44, I find myself starting fresh at a a startup company. Here at this startup, I've come to find out, I have been over-educated in the corporate world with lots of fear about Doing the Wrong Thing. I have to curb my sense of humor, it's too bawdy. I have to control my voice, it's too loud. I have to be concerned with other people's privacy, we do not want a lawsuit. I have to reign in my sexuality, we do not want Harassment issues. My language is foul and not professional enough. I cannot talk about politics or religion or anything I do outside of work.
At work, I have been very closed down. Now I wonder how much of my inhibitions were self-control and how much was "toeing the corporate line". I guess here at this startup, I will find out, because my wonderful boss is encouraging me to be myself. I wonder now what my self is. It used to be hard for me to be myself when I believed my self to have a bodacious, unacceptable personality. But how much of that was me, and how much of it was my "training"?
This is one of those public journal posts where I am not sure what I'm trying to say, and hoping by saying it here I can figure it out. I guess the bottom line is, I will be interested to find out Who I Am, in the context of this role, this company and this environment.
It should be very interesting to behold...
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At work, I have been very closed down. Now I wonder how much of my inhibitions were self-control and how much was "toeing the corporate line". I guess here at this startup, I will find out, because my wonderful boss is encouraging me to be myself. I wonder now what my self is. It used to be hard for me to be myself when I believed my self to have a bodacious, unacceptable personality. But how much of that was me, and how much of it was my "training"?
This is one of those public journal posts where I am not sure what I'm trying to say, and hoping by saying it here I can figure it out. I guess the bottom line is, I will be interested to find out Who I Am, in the context of this role, this company and this environment.
It should be very interesting to behold...
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Friday, April 8, 2011
The Voice
Some people close to me have heard this story, but I don't tell it too often because I don't want to go back to the mental hospital, and people tend to think you're crazy when you hear voices in your head.
Well, I don't hear voices, it's just one voice. One Voice, I should say, because it feels like it wants to be capitalized.
This Voice has spoken to me clearly on three separate occasions. It's never been wrong to date.
The first time was when I was about 18-22. I had just walked out of a nearby convenience store and the Voice said, "Go back in there and buy that scratch ticket that had the yellow frame around it" so I did, and it was a $500 winner!
The second time was on my first date with Paul. He told me his last name was Sterling, and the Voice said (with a gasp) "You're gonna marry this guy!". I didn't believe it at the time; I had no plans to marry anybody. But it was right! 4 and a half years later we were married. I had lost my job and health insurance, and we were engaged, and Paul said, "now you have to marry me!" I joke that it was the most romantic thing he ever said to me.
The most recent time was a few years ago when I first started working at BrassRing. Forgive me if I have blogged about this already, it is feeling awfully familiar. My best friend Dianne said to go to Sadies and try their Teriyaki chicken. Well, pulling up to Sadies, before going in there for the first time, the Voice said "someone inside here is going to introduce you to the members of Aerosmith" and, like when it told me I would marry Paul, I basically said to myself, that's ridiculous! But sure enough, I met Casey at Sadies and it was through Casey that I met Joe Perry for the first time. Casey got me invited to an exclusive party in Waltham in honor of the launch of Joe's new flavor of hot sauce, "Mango Tango". Two days later Casey convinced me to go meet Joe again at the Barnes and Noble in Boston, where he was signing Horse books with his wife. Casey and I met Brad together at a guitar shop in Boston, and Casey and I met Tom together at Mohegan Sun. So once again the voice was 100% correct.
I have no idea who it is or where it comes from, but I wish I could get that voice to talk to me more!
Well, I don't hear voices, it's just one voice. One Voice, I should say, because it feels like it wants to be capitalized.
This Voice has spoken to me clearly on three separate occasions. It's never been wrong to date.
The first time was when I was about 18-22. I had just walked out of a nearby convenience store and the Voice said, "Go back in there and buy that scratch ticket that had the yellow frame around it" so I did, and it was a $500 winner!
The second time was on my first date with Paul. He told me his last name was Sterling, and the Voice said (with a gasp) "You're gonna marry this guy!". I didn't believe it at the time; I had no plans to marry anybody. But it was right! 4 and a half years later we were married. I had lost my job and health insurance, and we were engaged, and Paul said, "now you have to marry me!" I joke that it was the most romantic thing he ever said to me.
The most recent time was a few years ago when I first started working at BrassRing. Forgive me if I have blogged about this already, it is feeling awfully familiar. My best friend Dianne said to go to Sadies and try their Teriyaki chicken. Well, pulling up to Sadies, before going in there for the first time, the Voice said "someone inside here is going to introduce you to the members of Aerosmith" and, like when it told me I would marry Paul, I basically said to myself, that's ridiculous! But sure enough, I met Casey at Sadies and it was through Casey that I met Joe Perry for the first time. Casey got me invited to an exclusive party in Waltham in honor of the launch of Joe's new flavor of hot sauce, "Mango Tango". Two days later Casey convinced me to go meet Joe again at the Barnes and Noble in Boston, where he was signing Horse books with his wife. Casey and I met Brad together at a guitar shop in Boston, and Casey and I met Tom together at Mohegan Sun. So once again the voice was 100% correct.
I have no idea who it is or where it comes from, but I wish I could get that voice to talk to me more!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Years ago I went through a phase of always having headphones and a CD player on. I remember coming in to work one day and telling my colleague, I bet one day, we all walk around with headsets on, and just plug in to wherever we are. Get to work, plug in to the phone, get in the car, plug in to the radio, get home, plug in to the computer or tv or whatever.
Well today I actualized that vision. I came home from work and it was the first really nice day we've had so far this year. We've had some sunny days in the 50's but today was forecast to be 60 and in fact at one point it reached 67. Plus we just changed the clocks ahead so it's staying lighter much later this week. So when I got home from work, I found myself wanting to walk my two big dogs. I set about trying to find a working CD player and headset. I found an old portable CD player for the car that my sister had handed down to me. But what to do for headphones? What could I use? Could the headset and mike I'd bought a few months ago, to Skype with Tom Campbell and friends, actually fit in that CD player and work? I tried it and why, yes! Yes it could! So my doggies had a fun walk and I rocked out to Aerosmith Done with Mirrors and all in all it was a beautiful evening.
I love a happy ending.
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Well today I actualized that vision. I came home from work and it was the first really nice day we've had so far this year. We've had some sunny days in the 50's but today was forecast to be 60 and in fact at one point it reached 67. Plus we just changed the clocks ahead so it's staying lighter much later this week. So when I got home from work, I found myself wanting to walk my two big dogs. I set about trying to find a working CD player and headset. I found an old portable CD player for the car that my sister had handed down to me. But what to do for headphones? What could I use? Could the headset and mike I'd bought a few months ago, to Skype with Tom Campbell and friends, actually fit in that CD player and work? I tried it and why, yes! Yes it could! So my doggies had a fun walk and I rocked out to Aerosmith Done with Mirrors and all in all it was a beautiful evening.
I love a happy ending.
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
February Dream Journal
Well my trick with the car did not get me lucid so I tried another tack. I decided since I often see my mother in my dreams, that the next time I saw her, I should realize it's a dream and become lucid. Well only a few sleeps after making that decision, there she was so I tried it! She was standing there with me and my best friend Dianne and I said, Mom! You're here! That means this is a dream! This is a dream!
When I said it the second time, Dianne changed from her ordinary Caucasian self into a black person. I found that interesting to note.
Even though I had the realization it was a dream, I did not fly, remote view the winning Powerball numbers, or go visit any of the people I intended to "drop in on" if I ever gained lucidity. Oh well, tonight is another night.
Two other really memorable portions from the dream:
1.) I was working in an office building. I was out back for some reason (smoking?). Out back were two town workers (I had two town workers in my house this morning, before taking the nap that gave me this dream) in a gigantic blue vehicle/machine type contraption on tall skinny legs. The thing must have been fifty or sixty feet tall. It towered over me. The two workers were sort of having an argument. I think one of them did not want to drop their load while I was standing there watching. Someone else was outside too, but I think she had her back turned to the workers. She was pretty with short, dark hair, but I did not recognize her. The one who wanted to drop the load finally said something to the effect of, well are we gonna sit here and argue all day, or are we gonna do this thing? At which point the machine/vehicle backed up a bit, and the load it was carrying came down from the back of it and was deposited on the ground, and the workers immediately ske-daddled out of there. I walked over closer to the thing they left behind, and it was a blue nest of sorts, quite a large one, sort of sized and shaped like a hot tub, with what appeared to be a mother and several baby demon/dragon/dinosaur beings with scary red eyes. Somewhere I had seen these before, possibly on YouTube or in a movie. I knew this was not good and it became my responsibility to let everybody know. I went upstairs to where one of my co-workers sat on the 7th floor, and persuaded her to come to the window with me, but I knew so much time had passed, the nest and the critters would be gone by the time we got to the window and I was right. But I said I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. I believe I was wishing I had had my camera (I've wished I had my camera handy a couple of times recently in real life.)
2.) The office building changed into a hotel and back into an office building. Someone had died and people were crying. Again I was smoking a cigarette and so could not go past the entryway, and I told Dianne, who had gone ahead of me, that I wasn't going in. She came out too and we watched as someone tried to hit someone else with a car. Then a guy named Jerry was in another car, a black futuristic Mustang-looking type car, and he came after me and Dianne in it! But luckily he did not allow enough clearance for a big pillar and slammed into that with the side of his car, not hurting him but preventing him from hitting us with it.
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I will try again if I see either of my parents in my dreams and let you know how it goes.
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When I said it the second time, Dianne changed from her ordinary Caucasian self into a black person. I found that interesting to note.
Even though I had the realization it was a dream, I did not fly, remote view the winning Powerball numbers, or go visit any of the people I intended to "drop in on" if I ever gained lucidity. Oh well, tonight is another night.
Two other really memorable portions from the dream:
1.) I was working in an office building. I was out back for some reason (smoking?). Out back were two town workers (I had two town workers in my house this morning, before taking the nap that gave me this dream) in a gigantic blue vehicle/machine type contraption on tall skinny legs. The thing must have been fifty or sixty feet tall. It towered over me. The two workers were sort of having an argument. I think one of them did not want to drop their load while I was standing there watching. Someone else was outside too, but I think she had her back turned to the workers. She was pretty with short, dark hair, but I did not recognize her. The one who wanted to drop the load finally said something to the effect of, well are we gonna sit here and argue all day, or are we gonna do this thing? At which point the machine/vehicle backed up a bit, and the load it was carrying came down from the back of it and was deposited on the ground, and the workers immediately ske-daddled out of there. I walked over closer to the thing they left behind, and it was a blue nest of sorts, quite a large one, sort of sized and shaped like a hot tub, with what appeared to be a mother and several baby demon/dragon/dinosaur beings with scary red eyes. Somewhere I had seen these before, possibly on YouTube or in a movie. I knew this was not good and it became my responsibility to let everybody know. I went upstairs to where one of my co-workers sat on the 7th floor, and persuaded her to come to the window with me, but I knew so much time had passed, the nest and the critters would be gone by the time we got to the window and I was right. But I said I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. I believe I was wishing I had had my camera (I've wished I had my camera handy a couple of times recently in real life.)
2.) The office building changed into a hotel and back into an office building. Someone had died and people were crying. Again I was smoking a cigarette and so could not go past the entryway, and I told Dianne, who had gone ahead of me, that I wasn't going in. She came out too and we watched as someone tried to hit someone else with a car. Then a guy named Jerry was in another car, a black futuristic Mustang-looking type car, and he came after me and Dianne in it! But luckily he did not allow enough clearance for a big pillar and slammed into that with the side of his car, not hurting him but preventing him from hitting us with it.
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I will try again if I see either of my parents in my dreams and let you know how it goes.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
January 2011 Dream Journal
Ok so I haven't been recording my dreams but I've still been having some. My plan was to get in the habit of asking myself regularly if I'm dreaming, especially in the car since I have so many driving dreams. Well last night I had another one, where I'm going too fast around a corner and I can feel myself losing control of the car and it all gets very scary because I don't realize I'm dreaming. Well last night when it happened, instead of calmly asking myself "Am I dreaming?" and then if the answer was yes, trying to become lucid, it was more like "Am I dreaming? Because if I am, I better wake up right now!" That wasn't the right way to go about it, because it woke me right up!
Next time I will try to remember when I ask, "Am I dreaming?" to wait for the answer and follow on with "If so, I'd like to become lucid"
Next time I will try to remember when I ask, "Am I dreaming?" to wait for the answer and follow on with "If so, I'd like to become lucid"
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