A Splintered Mind

Just a quickie update for you this weekend. I recently received an award for depression blogging . I even had to send off a headshot. I’ll write more about it when their post goes live, but in the meantime, I realized that I haven’t been blogging about depression much this year. I wanted to let you know why. I’m cured! Nah. Wouldn’t that be great? No such luck for me, however. I still struggle with mild depression daily and occasional heavy bouts when most inconvenient. What really has me distracted is my latest book project. I’ve dug through the past fourteen years of articles and collected the best articles I’ve written on ADHD and ToDo lists . That’s the theme of my next eBook. I hope to have a first draft finished by the end of next week. Some of the articles stand as is, but many need to be updated or rewritten (For example, how about this one? Three Simple Ways to Prevent Your PDA from Becoming a Paperweight ). As I update or write...

With Adult ADHD , when we are in a hurry, we blunder in glorious ways. If only there was a way to prevent that. I have a quickie tip for you today as I’m blazing around my life like some earthbound comet. Last month, I was quickly packaging up an item I had sold on eBay. The item was secure. The box was sealed. All it needed was a shipping label. I don’t sell a lot on eBay, but I’ve got a system I’ve developed over the years. After I pay for the postage online, I both print the label AND save it as a PDF. Redundancy is good for these sorts of things. When I went to fetch the printed label, I discovered that the UPC code was all smeared. Back to the Mac I went, but since I had closed the tab, I opened up the PDF and printed from there, this time at a higher DPI and clarity. The second printout looked great, so I clipped the shipping label out and prepared to tape it to my package. That’s when I stopped myself. ”Which PDF did I print?”