Pet peeve, when people misuse the word “literally.” But wait, maybe they aren’t wrong!
How could this have happened? Hmmm, maybe it didn’t just happen. Maybe there is some support for this from the past.
This damages my whole sense of rightness with the universe. Literally!
Just curious, do you:
1. Open an app, then find the document?
2. Find the document, then let it open
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“Links may be monitized”
This post originally written October 14, 2009. Chris Rivers of Culture Bus prompted the Flashback posting. Guess how?
Steve Leveen, Levenger’s co-founder, recently published an article on his blog about the value of hand written notes. Actually, he referred to the rewards of writing your own handwritten notes. An interesting read and something I’ve long agreed with, but haven’t practiced very well. He sort of shot down most of my old excuses.
I had a very practical experience of receiving just such a note recently. I’ve been visiting a church for a while, but not really doing anything more than sitting there and receiving. I decided to step that up a notch by sending a check (a very small check, by the way) to the church. It was an electronic check, mailed to them.
A brief digression: quite a few of the people at this church kinda/sorta know me, but they just know me as “Tony.” Probably very few know my last name. Of course, Tony isn’t my real name, it’s just what I go by. So, when the check arrived at the church (with no note from me, of course), it was from Harold A. Dye, Jr. The person processing the check might have figured out Tony Dye, but for sure didn’t figure out my real name. (no fault on her part, of course)
So, back to the story. This church, or this person in particular, took the “above and beyond” action. She wrote me a very nice short note, personally thanking me. Receiving that note absolutely made my day. Since she didn’t know who I was, that actually added meaning. I think she does this for EVERY gift received from anyone who’s not a member or regular attender!
That would be a good place to end this story, but there’s actually one more detail worth mentioning. This sweet person who volunteers to handle the contributions is also a busy, high-level, executive with a local manufacturing firm. If she’s not too busy to hand write a note, well, that doesn’t leave much excuse, does it?
Thanks so much for the hand written thank you note!
Or maybe it’s just 6T.
If Thirty is Flirty, Forty is Sporty, and Fifty is Nifty, what’s Sixty? Must be something like “rhymes with orange.”
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Or how about 21 with 39 years experience?
We have too many better solutions. What does anyone still send a FAX? How come the environmentalists aren’t all over this terrible waste and duplication of paper?
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Are you a creative-type? Do you constantly dream up new ideas, ways to make the world better, or do you create works of art, music, or literature? Or, are you an improver-type, somebody who sees something that already exists and chooses to make it a little better?
Nothing says these two have to be exclusive of each other.
There’s room for each! If you’re not a creative, see if maybe you’re an incrementalist — helping to improve things, one small step at a time.
Ben Stroup is an intentional father to his sons. I like his post today. His sons (who are very young by the way) have a great foundation. Sharing Life. Sharing Wisdom!
In July of 2005 (oh my!) I started blogging. My tool of choice at the time was TypePad, and they served me well. Somewhere in 2011, I got busy and quit! (oh my again!) Worse, I started setting up a new blog site with another company I think the world of, ClickHost. But somehow I just didn’t get going again. Not from lack of material. I have hundreds of topics in the queue. Ah well … that’s where I was, now I’m here, and maybe I’ll even make this new site pretty sometime soon.
Meanwhile, my old stuff is still available at TonyDye.TypePad.com. I hope I’m really back. I need to be!
Oh, by the way, I’m finally using my other URL so I’m easier to find at TonyDye.com.