My sister laughed at me last week when she picked up my ipad while we were getting ready for the Blackhawks game and an alert popped up that said "Dranking: 15 minutes overdue"
It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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brenda m - Apr 17, 2014 6:30:36 am PDT #25461 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
-t - Apr 17, 2014 6:31:03 am PDT #25462 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Right? Why I was a relatively early adopter of PDAs: I need that external brain.
ETA: That is an awesome alert.
Amy - Apr 17, 2014 6:35:06 am PDT #25463 of 30000
Because books.
I'm still on pencil and paper. I love my lists, and my datebook.
Laura - Apr 17, 2014 6:37:21 am PDT #25464 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Man, I was such a failboat before I had the option to manage my life electronically.
I used paper back in the day, but I love my pop up reminders and text and so forth. Need that.
Zenkitty - Apr 17, 2014 6:39:58 am PDT #25465 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I am as one with Tim, at least in this aspect: I also have a paper calendar hanging in the kitchen, but it doesn't help if I don't look at it. I would really benefit from having it all electronic, but I haven't been able to make that happen, somehow.
flea - Apr 17, 2014 6:42:36 am PDT #25466 of 30000
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-t - Apr 17, 2014 6:42:47 am PDT #25467 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I tried with paper, but I ended up with notes to myself on scraps of paper all over the place that never were right in front of me when I needed to be reminded of whatever it was I was supposed to do. Even Dayplanners and whatnot I had a tough time with.
Rick - Apr 17, 2014 6:52:03 am PDT #25468 of 30000
A recent New Yorker cartoon came pretty close to the truth on electronic schedules, at least for me:
I think I've mentioned here that a couple of years ago I found a paper to-do list from 1989 and noticed that there were only two tasks I still hadn't completed. I came in over the weekend for a few weeks and finished both them. On the next Monday morning I strutted up and down the hallway bragging "I've completely finished the 80's!!!"
But Outlook never forgets and you can't loose it in the back of a file drawer like a paper list, so it is easy to see that the 90's will be a harder problem to complete. There are still 27 tasks outstanding, mostly analytic techniques I promised to learn and papers or grants I promised to write. I'm thinking that by 2024 I should be pretty close.
-t - Apr 17, 2014 6:54:04 am PDT #25469 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, well, yes, I have come to accept that some days my To Do list is just organizing all the things that I'm going to ignore. But at least they are organized.
flea - Apr 17, 2014 6:59:33 am PDT #25470 of 30000
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I patted myself on the back yesterday when I realized I'd gotten up, made coffee, done two loads of laundry and 2 drainers full of dishes, gotten the kids to school, volunteered for half an hour at the school library, taken Casper to the orthodontist, dropped off some pants at the dry cleaner and mailed a letter, all before 11am. Then I went to work.
I failed at calling a babysitting, because I mostly fail at anything involving the telephone.