Good morning, Don.
I am open and accepting of hands jokes
and puns, and even though I'm not laughing at this particular moment in time, I
am celebrating. I am looking forward to the end of the pain so laughter is
definitely acceptable. And yes, I will be motoring on.
I love your daily life lecture. I so understand your better half. One
of the things that drives my husband crazy is my inability to cut anything out.
We've gotten to a place where we have pact: if I take on anything new, I have
to give something up. I've been reluctant to take on anything new lately
because I really like all of the stuff I'm doing right now.
Sitting on the sidelines of anything is
not my idea of a good time when I could be rolled around in the mud or exploring
new places. I guess for the next couple of months I might very well have to
figure out how to sit on the sidelines. Maybe this is where I figure out how to
relax and enjoy myself – I think you called it "therapeutic." I'm
sure my family would be agreeable to that.
In a lot of ways, you remind me of my
husband. He also has an alarm that goes off when there is a possibility of
being overwhelmed. He loves being able to deal effectively with everything and
he also loves having that buffer zone/margin of error just in case. Maybe
that's what makes us such a good couple; I take on the adventure and he makes
sure we get home okay.
As for letting the blog go for a little
bit, I'm not sure I want to do that. I'm learning how to use Dragon, which is
voice-recognition, and that has helped a lot with the typing I've been doing
this week. I'm not sure that I remember to get all of the punctuation in the
right places as I have to tell the program went to put in the commas,
semicolons, and the periods. The point to this is, that with Dragon, I think I
can meet the blog schedule. I probably won't have blogs that are as long as
usual.
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I got the books Wormhole Electric is
showcasing this month on Amazon and the changes to the website off to the web
developers this week. Both books are fantastic! I haven't finished reading all
of Zack's book the Medieval Conspiracy yet, but I agree, it does sound like a
futuristic Texas Rangers in the Middle Ages type of story. The Search is our
first adventure light romance – it is so different from a smash, bash move on
out save the universe story. I think it is a good change for Wormhole.
On the website we are offering Zack's first book, Long Patrol, for free for the month of July. Check it out!
I spent this week getting ready to live
life left handed for awhile. I've got all of the big laundry done, some of the
cleaning, the planting and the replanting of our container garden, I've been
walking about 3 miles twice a week, I have a bit of shopping left to do today,
workshops are planned… I'm sure there's a bunch of stuff I forgotten but I'll
either learn how to do it with just one hand or it won't get done and I'm okay
with that.
I've been practicing how to brush my
teeth and style my hair with my left hand. It ain't easy. I've also been trying
to cook with my left hand and I have to say that the right-hand seems to have a
mind of its own and it resents being cut out those activities that it usually
does. So I keep finding myself using the right h
and. I think this is something I'll have to talk to the doctor about – I don't baby myself, I don't baby those parts of my body that might be in pain, and this kind of attitude might interfere with the healing process. Of course, I have to admit, I have over 60 years of body teamwork experience so it might be a difficult habit to break.
I know that the right side of the brain
controls the left side of the body; the left side of the brain controls the
right side body. Left side of brain is logical; right side of brain is
creative. So are we in for a 3 month wild ride on the creative side of life? I
have noticed that as I use my left hand more I also stuttered a little bit and
I'm a bit more hesitant – it seems to be a little bit harder to find the right
words.
I actually went to a real bookstore this
week, and I touched and felt books. There is something about the feel of the
book, the feel of the pages (don't forget the smell) – the cheap murder mysteries
are on cheap course paper; the National Geographic book on the 100 scientific discoveries
that changed the world is on slick thicker paper and the pictures are brighter
and more colorful. The 1st chapter of the National Geographic is on
information and the 1st entry is about nanolithography and carbon
nano tubes. I love the fact that it's written in such a way that I can
understand it! It also makes the distinction between the World Wide Web and the
Internet. The web is the network of information – the Internet is what connects
it all together. It goes on to talk about buckyballs, augmented reality, cloud
computing, how we got our modern number system and that is just in the 1st
section on information. It has chapters on health and medicine, physics and
engineering and earth science and astronomy. It is one of those fantastic books
that helps pique my curiosity.
Have a great week everyone. I'll let you
know how the world looks and feels left handed. And we've discovered some
absolutely wonderful devices to help like a button puller!
Carolyn
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