The last two weeks are setting us for a great summer on the water. We have made two extraordinary impulse purchases. The first, last weekend when we helped friends move a boat from a moving sale and the seller decided to offer a 10′ solo Hornbeck canoe at a very good price. The boat’s hull …
Author Archives: Andy Kelly
Spending time with the dead
I found myself wandering around Elizabethtown, NY earlier this week. I dropped my car off at the Chevy dealer to get it’s battery replaced. Luckily the weather was nice enough to walk around and the day mostly threatened rain without delivering much. I wandered down the main street and saw the county courthouse and the …
Tinkering & Puttering
Some working definitions: Tinkering: iterative, leisurely modification to a system(s) toward a particular goal (i.e. tinkering with settings, tinkering with a draft) vs. Puttering: idle activity, confined generally to a particular area with no particular goal (ie. puttering around in the garden, garage, or area of knowledge) I’ve been doing a bit of each of …
slow & steady
I’ve taken notice lately of a few areas where I’ve managed to accumulate a body of knowledge or skills outside of things I’ve got to do at my job: There seems to be an extent to which you become committed to doing something regularly and you’re doing it more than most people around you. So …
Off twitter & toward quiet
I’m going to really, really quit twitter this week. I’m working to reframe the habits around my use of my computer, my keyboard and the internet. Now: I sit down, positioning my fingers on the home row and go through the little mental list of distractions I can type into my address bar. Chief among …