Journal Entry

Short Term vs Long Term

January 5, 2015 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

I just read a quote.

“People overestimate what they can do in the short term and underestimate what they can do in the long term.”

The quote was attributed to Bill Gates. The point is to set a goal and then do something everyday to accomplish that goal. so I am going to try and do that this year. writing in this blog is going to be one of those things I am going to try and do everyday. I should put at least some of the goals I am going to try and accomplish this year.

1. Buy a business

2. Implement Pay for Value at that business.

3. Start software company.

4. lose 52 lbs.

As part of this process I will report everyday what I did the previous day to accomplish those goals.

Resolutions Already Falling Down

January 9, 2015 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

Here it is the 8th of January and this is only the second time writing. Well, who cares! because no one is reading this thing anyway but me.

Tomorrow I will reach out to two companies that I might want to buy.

I will reach out two one person and try to setup a meeting to talk about my consulting services.

I will talk to one person tomorrow about getting my software company started.

I also have a new goal. My brother Mike finished his “How to Make a Skimboard” Video so we are trying push skimboard making to the scouting communitee. So I am going to try and spend 30 minutes a day pushing that.

Until tomorrow.

Looking For a Music Service

October 30, 2014 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

My brother-in-law Charles Talbot, asked me where I would look for new music.

Here was my response

I would start with the free Pandora. We had the premium service for three years before Amanda wanted to move to Rhapsody.

Pandora, Free-Ad supported/ Premium 36 dollar a year(last time I checked)

Pros – Cool because you can share the Premium with everyone in your family

Lots of choices

Create your own channels

Cons –

Only about 100 songs in each channel

Can’t choose specific songs to listen too.

Can’t listen offline

There are two paid services worth checking into. Spotify and Rhapsody

I am paying for Rhapsody @$15 a month. (it would cost me $30 for spotify) (they are both $10 a month for one device)

Rhapsody::

Pro’s

They allow three mobile devices to be playing music at the same time. (This is why I have this service)

Create your own playlists.

Listen to what ever you want when ever you want.

download music to your device to listen offline.

Playlists with the most popular music.

Create your own listening Channel

Good variety of prebuilt channels.

Listen through the browser on as many PC’s as you want.(Share with lots of people)

192K for listening(I don’t know this about Spotify

Cons,

Hard to discover new obscure music, but there lots on there

Occasionally, brand new music and old music is not available. In the last three years(Coldplay’s last two albums and Taylor Swifts Red are the only three albums I know of that took a couple of months to finally get on Rhapsody)

Occasionally, on my phone, it forces me to reconnect to the server with a message “Somewhere your account is playing, please login again”

Spotify::I liked this a lot better than Rhapsody a couple of years ago, but I chose Rhapsody because it was cheaper to share with my family

Pro’s

Free Version-Ad supported (This is new, since last checked)

It’s easier to discover new music

Listen to any song when you want to.

Play lists.

Con’s

$10 for each device

Only listen on one device at a time.

Free version forces ads and occasionally throws music in there I don’t like.

I downloaded this today and am going to try out the free version, just for something different.

I might think of switching if they had a family plan.

There are lots of other music services.

Grooveshark has the coolest names but quality of music and selection is more limited. I payed for this service for a year because I got a t-shirt with the subscription.

Soundcloud – Dennis uses this to find good really obscure music.

googlemusic ( tried this a year or so ago not that great)

Itunes has a radio option, but I’ve only tried it for about 10 minutes, maybe 6 months ago.

Ramblings

June 17, 2014 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

Here are few things that are bouncing around in my brain.

First: It’s super cool the US men’s national soccer team was able to beat Ghana yesterday. It looked like a win by the skin of their teeth. Even though they played well, I don’t hold out much hope for them getting out of the group stage.

Second: Cold weather. Over the last couple of days the weather has gotten colder. In the 50’s which is reminding me I would like to move somewhere warmer.

Third: Is the scripture from Acts 5:15

15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

I was surprised at the power that Peter had acquired in the short time since Jesus Christ ascended to heaven. I would like to have that type of faith and power.

Fourth: surprising new music from Willie nelson.

There’s a guitar in the corner
That used to have a song
I would hold it while it played me
And I would sing along . . . Willie Nelson

You may not like Willie’s style or sound, but at 81 he is still a poet.

Normally I am not a Willie fan. I don’t like his style or sound. However, If you’re looking for a break from your normal music playlist give his new album a listen; maybe you’ll find something that speaks to you.

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Review-Willie-Nelson-picks-up-his-pen-on-new-LP-5556107.php

10 minutes a day – Adventures in Driving my EV to Park City.

June 2, 2014 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

I read some advice that suggested one of the things I might try each day is writing for 10 minutes. They said just to let it flow.

The last couple of nights Kate has been waking up a couple of times a night, I think because she is growing and hungry. It has been difficult for me because I have been getting to bed later than I should and then we I am awakened it is difficult to go back to sleep. Saturday into Sunday morning was bad. Kate woke up sometime after 1:30 and by 3:00 am I still wasn’t asleep so I took a couple of ibuprofen for my head ache. After 30 minutes I still had a headache so I thought I would take a shot at driving to Park city. I’ve always been affaid to make the attempt because it’s mostly uphill. I had let me car get a full charge and so I headed up. I was surprised to see my car, a Nissan Leaf, made it all the way to Park city with only draining half a charge. I was pushing the car and I went over the speed limit a couple of times. I really was not try to conserve any electricity going up. Once arriving on the main street in Park City, I then reset my miles per Kilowatt hour meter and started down. I didn’t realize how much I had heated up the battery, because the two hills I charged up on the way back really drained my battery and kept my average to 7.7 by the time I arrived home. I will try the drive again, but I am going to let the car rest a bit before coming back down.

It was fun to see th potential distance for a full charge at 117 the next morning.