GRIZZLY PEAR

written snapshots

Category: Life

  • Something big you did not forsee will happen in the next month

    I was reading David Allen’s book Ready for Anything (which is a good read, though you should read his classic Getting Things Done first), and one of the first articles recommends that the reader should write a note to yourself, “something big you did not anticipate will happen in your life in the next month.”

    I was reading it on my way to my cousin’s wedding. With a busy summer this year (I had another wedding on Labor Day and plenty of work in between) I did not think anything big really could happen this summer.  As it worked out, nothing really big happened by August 16, but I decided to throw it a month forward in my files just for fun.

    Well, I guess that living through a big storm, seeing a major metropolis shut down for several days, and having no electricity for a couple weeks constitutes as “something big”.

  • wow…there goes Ike….

    Hello,

    Just wanted to note the long absence.  As y’all know, I’m in Houston, and Hurricane Ike created a real mess in my schedule.  I just got power today =) and the extended period of not having electricity really just threw everything in a loop more than one would imagine.  Its just weird, and nothing feels really “normal”.

    Hopefully that will start happening now, but just wanted to mention I’m alive and well, I’ve been working the whole time, but just for work – kind of hard to draw in the dark….

  • top o the list!

    RAD! I own a piece of Google now =)

    or should I say that Google owns a piece of me?

    http://www.google.com/search?q=grizzly+pear

  • Well that was that….

    I was hoping that maybe I could legitmately take the day off or something…but the rain came and is still here, but never bad enough for me to not go to work.

    Oh well, excitement is over, back to usual (albeit much cooler and soggier than usual).

  • Tropical Storm Eduoard

    Hehehe, perfect timing for my bosses.  They are out in Calgary avoiding this lovely weather that may slam into us tommorrow.  Apparently, the weather before big events like this are often not really much of anything and its pretty much that — hot sweaty and crowded in your local Krogers supermarket.