Blended Living

• Its seems such a long time since I’ve aimed my camera
• besides the occasional social snap of a birthday or an out of towner visiting
• I mean the more artistic, and less practical usage of the time freezing megabit logger
• that is, my trusty Lumix
• hoping its like the proverbial bike,  rusty but not forgotten
• upgraded my google storage space
• mostly to get the free Eye-fi card
• but what to do with that 200 gigabytes of space now?
• after the left brain logical thoughts of archiving, and facilitating wealth accumulation
• I spent a few minutes exploring Picasa
• and I’m back at the first thought, I really need to play with that camera more
• bought some new gadgets, a HDTV for my mom and sis
• (yeah they got it already and I don’t wrap presents or feel compelled to give them on the day)
• another larger monitor for my charts and the sporadic movie
• and the thing that I’ve been waiting the most for…
• a ebook reader
• decided on the Sony Touch, it has expandable memory via cards, a touchscreen, renders many formats including PDFs, CHMs, and will be able to download free content off NYPL
• so no excuses for many more pleasurable reading hours in 2010
• and importantly I can reuse a lot of shelf space at home, as I gradually manipulate paper books to digital formats
• it will either be time consuming or costly
• not much that I have thought of in terms of getting around that…
• Oh good, Picasa allows different levels of content sharing
• finished a hutch or shelf for my desk, so got another 42 inches of monitor and computer gadgets space
• I actually timed that one well
• the window seat /work bench/ spare bed project got fouled up
• as I need more lumber, and the mattress arrived already
• but its hard to get those 2x4s home in a snow storm
• the 24 inch monitor should arrive in the next 48 hrs and I got the spot ready for it
• got a good DK photography book out of the library but we’ll see if it lives up to its name
• “absolutely everything” is pretty bold
• and is an example of types of books that wouldn’t be as suitable for an eReader
• since its grey scale and not color and a small screen
• but very portable and battery lasts for 2 weeks at a time
• next to search through the freely available content out there
• and start making a list
• as well as a virtual book budget as I have put off buying books for quite some time now
• I’m starting to like the dark stain on the bench 2 projects ago
• and yes I should note somewhere to not saturate the wood with the stain
• like I did basically while in a rush to get it done
• still wondering what to do with Wave, Voice is kinda cool but not utilizing it well yet
• and I’m itching to get my hands on that Sony reader, and hoping it ships before the long weekend
• so much to do, so little energy and free time and that shy sun isn’t helping my mood
• but I’m feeling like we turn a corner here soon, and is it coincidence that the winter solstice is upon us
• its late and I’m hungry and imagining smells of food
• but breakfast is a few hours away.

• its strange to wish for somethings and have them appear so regularly sometimes
• it makes you think that you should have been more ambitious
• I envisioned scrap wood and acrylic pieces and they appeared on my walks
• that weekly metrocard that appeared when my legs got tired
• the exact piece of plywood I’m using now as a base for a lightbox
• perhaps I should be more selective in my visions
• that white translucent # 2447 plexglass arrived a day early and I cut and assembled the
• back and sides of the lightbox – I wish I could cut a straighter line
• with the jigsaw, but given the limited woodworking projects so far
• its not that bad, or the sander straightens what the jigsaw wrought
• its fun to make something that involves LEDS, acrylic and wood working
• which really is a foundation for future projects and
• I don’t know if this something new and can’t be bought elsewhere
• or if it will in the end prove to be something that just seemed a great idea
• still as lightboxes go, this will be fairly cheap compared to pre mades
• next steps are to check spacing and quantity of flat white LEDs and to figure
• out how to assemble  them – either use PCBs or just connect them
• directly to the plywood base somehow
• picked up a shop vac that will connect somehow to the lightbox for vacuuming away
• tiny glass and acrylic dust which is harmful if breathed
• which reminds me I didn’t pick up masks
• the Euro just woke up and in typical 6AM Greenwich fashion but there
• appears to be resistance around 1.4730
• which reminds me there are a few AHK projects I wanted to do on the computer
• that got hip checked out of the way by the woodworking projects
• and somehow I want to fit in some running and Yoga now
• that I rearranged and have more floor space
• but how to blend all this into a week and still get 7 hrs sleep a night?
• oh, there she blows!  - Euro breaking out above resistance
• bouncing off the 10 daily SMA today
• FOMC is this week, I doubt there will be any changes for the next few months
• but the tone could send a jittery market a flutter
• falling back from 1.4745 now, but it looks like it will travel all the way up to the 4hr UBB
• that is the Upper Bollinger Band around 1.4755
• now to figure out how to fit in that running, so that the sleeping is better, so I have more energy
• so that I can focus better, and trade more actively, so that I can have more time…
• if it wasn’t so late I’d reach for the camera and snap a few shots of the unbuilt lightbox
• figure out if the minute chart is resetting to bounce up here while the stochastics is running down below 20
• but I think its enough for today.

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at Oprah.com

You need to become a “member”.  Basically sign up.

Read the first few pages, they divide people into these broad categories:
The Wealthy (Ws), the Financially Comfortable (FCs), the Paycheck to Paycheckers (PTPs), and the Further-in- debtors (FIDs).  The first two have some different mindsets and skills, and the premise is that they can be learned.

Happy reading.

http://www.millionsubs.com/index.php

Name, zip, email and birthday.

The International Music Score Library Project or  IMSLP for short, “attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores”.  They boast many thousands of scores, and I randomly printed out a couple pages.   The printout looks better than it did on the screen.

You can search by composer or by period.  There’s also a phpBB forum for announcements and score requests and general discussions.  If expensive scoresheets have kept you away from playing that childhood instrument, point your browser over there, you might find something worthy of dusting off that old keyboard, viloin, or whatever.

IMSLP

I was mostly joking yesterday that “it” happens in 3′s.  After the two TV actors passed yesterday, and today another famous person, the American Painter, Andrew Wyeth died.  I think “Christina’s World” is at MOMA, and Friday nights used to be free.

Check the schedule for current hours.

For the cost of your contact info.

Suave – Good Jan 14th

Free book to download from Oprah’s site.  Good until the 15th.

2009 Action Plan,  227 pages with chapters on saving, spending, credit, real estate and retirement.

Update:  The section on how the big financial meltdown happened is worth the download and read.  The tone is very conversational – very much like her TV show, which makes for easy reading, if a tad annoying at times.

The advice is laid out in scenario format so its easy to locate sections that apply more closely to your situation.  So far its all making sense and it sounds like good advice.

Suze believes that this downturn may last until 2014 which I agree with.  The stock market may rebound strongly between now and then but the economy may languish for several years.