A Splintered Mind

No! Not late again!!! If you asked me, the Universe was conspiring to make me late. I was certain of it. Work was less than two miles away, yet day after day I was punching in a few minutes tardy and always because of some new obstacle. One day it was an old lady. She was in on it with the Universe, obviously, because she traveled 10mph under the speed limit and knew the exact route I travelled to work. She plodded along, taking each turn along the way as slowly as she could manage without stalling her car, anticipating my every move and blocking me until the last 1200 yards. I was six minutes late that day. Other days it was construction clogging up the small little intersection I needed to get through. There were orange cones everywhere and Do Not Turn signs that only Satan could have designed. The workers left the cones and signs up after hours even though there was nothing wrong with the road. I know they were in on it with the old lady. Then there was the day where I s...

Here's an old school method to managing digital rights management. A little over a year ago I wrote about my headache with running out of Adobe DRM account activations . Back in the early days of iPad apps, and before the market had settled on official apps like Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and iBooks, it seemed like a new eReader was being released every month, and they all used Adobe's system to manage eBook DRM (Digital Rights Management). Adobe links activations with your email address. This can be convenient since one account can be used on any Adobe DRM savvy device. However, after replacing my broken iPad last year I had to reauthorize a score of eReader apps, and I discovered that Adobe put a limit on how many activations one email account could have. Suddenly, I couldn't borrow books from the library anymore because I couldn't authorize the eReader. And I was in the middle of a book! What a pain! I fixed that issue, and you can read about that hassle if you wis...

Sometimes the simplest of tasks can become an imposing obstacle when it herds together with others. Use the tools you have on hand to single out the most important tasks from the herd. Work. Blog. Work. Write. Sketch. Repeat. My life should be very simple to manage. Yet life often has ways of making things complicated. My ideal schedule becomes something more like this: Work. Fill out paperwork. Tend to the kids. Go shopping. Clean up after the kids. Watch some TV. Run some errands. Sell things on eBay. Fight off zombies. Watch some TV. Tend to the kids. Clean up after the kids. Watch some more TV. Work. Somehow I never seem to have time to write. It's a mystery to me. With so little time for writing left in my day, why then am I so worried about which art project I should do first? Who knows? Is it an unsatisfied yen? A driving need? Or is the grass just far more green and interesting on the other side where projects seem like larks in the park filled with cheering fans, money gro...