Me and J: The Family
New Directions…Bad Dogs
triscuit
I have had so many changes in direction this past year that I am getting whiplash. Everything is just too quick these days. Can’t keep up.
Anyhow… One change with which I can keep up is my other website mfcooke.com. When I set it up, I figured it would be my business site. Then, being who I am, I couldn’t decide which wordpress theme to choose, so I wasted an inordinate amount of time downloading, activating, and ultimately rejecting a whole slew of themes.
All perfectly good themes, I might add.
So then I figured – since I couldn’t decide on a theme – that I’d simply redirect mfcooke.com to this site, and that I’d modify this site to reflect both my personal and professional life.
Then I decided… Then I figured… Then I opted…
God, no wonder I’ve got whiplash. I’m driving myself crazy.
At any rate, I am back where I started, back to setting up two sites. My mfcooke.com site will, as originally conceived, be devoted to my professional life, while this site will be devoted to my personal life.
The other site will be my own private investigation into just how quickly I can see my page ranking climb.
Wish me luck.
I’ll be back tomorrow to give updates on my very very bad animals. This time, however, those bad animals are none other than the dogs.
I suspect Triscuit. (You hear that, Tris?)
Learn Something New Every Day
If you learn something new every day, maybe you won’t get old.
Or at least you won’t lose your faculties. I read that a long time ago. No, on second thought, I remember that I saw it on TV.
Learning Should Never Be This Hard.
What I saw was a program that told the story of a group of nuns who kept active through their 90s and had very low rates of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
These low rates led to the theory that people who stay physically and mentally active – these nuns gardened and learned new skills, including playing the piano well into their 90s – can stave off mental decline.
The Internet being what it is, I just googled the study and found a link to it from NPR at the University of Minnesota, so you can take a look for yourself, but there seems to be a link between constantly learning and staving off Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
So…
This morning, before I got to work, I spent a bit of time surfing and discovered the Moby Awards for book trailers. I then discovered Dennis Cass, who won for Best Performance by an Author, and who wants me to be ‘more awesome.’
How can I fault anyone for wanting me to be more awesome?
A great way to start the day – by laughing. Check out his performance on YouTube.
And, yes, I realize that I’m like the 68,000th person to check out his video, but what the heck? Better the 68,000th than never having discovered it at all.
So back to work…
Back to staving off mental decline.
